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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Get yourself one of these going

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping

This is probably the first thing he should have done.

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Originally Posted by Deathcrush87

how this would help me?

It'll tell you what the problem is.

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Originally Posted by jb66

Its only an extra £5 per month for 100/6meg. I didnt know the sh1 could work two floors up!

I've had the SH1 working over half a mile up.

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Originally Posted by Deathcrush87

please tell me which would cost less; new router + plan upgrade or:
landlord pays for each room to have a wired connection. so each room will have a CAT sticking out through the wall.

Given that doing the latter legally would cost hundreds, possibly thousands, you can't be serious...

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Originally Posted by General Maximus

in an ideal world you would have cable running throughout the house providing wired connections to all the rooms but if you was actually going to put it through the wall to wall jacks it cost £hundreds.

That, and it does nothing about having a router or internet connection that cannot handle the load

I can not over estimate how important wired connections are. It sounds a silly way of putting it but wired connections give you a 100% pure and unimpeded connection to the router.

Trust me, you can impede a wired connection.

It sounds like a bit of a faff but it is like putting a skeleton in somebody's body; once it is in that is it and it will continue to benefit you everyday in so many ways for years to come. I don't expect your landlord will go for it at all but in case you were wondering I would say £140 for super duper new router and switch and £70 for 7 x 50m cat5e (here)

Truth is if they get a professional contractor in to do the work chances are they'll try to sell them some enterprise networking kit along with it and refuse to fit a consumer router.

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Originally Posted by Kushan

I promise you

Never mess with Kushan's promises.

This also means switching to BT or upgrading your connection isn't going to help.

Going from 3Mbps upstream to 20Mbps upstream and the highest upstream bufferring in the UK to the lowest, will help nomatter whose fault it is.

Step one: You need to do a wired test. You can't get around this.

Agreed. 2.4Ghz wireless is bad enough. 2.4Ghz wireless over multiple floors shared with a dozen devices is practically unusable on even on a good day.

And a 50M ethernet cable is barely £10-15 on ebay.

You need to find out if it's wireless or not and frankly, it's almost certainly wireless that's the problem.

The TBB graph will show that well enough on it's own.

All that said and done, 30meg is not enough for a 7 person household. It's just not in this day and age.

I grew up with a 64Kbps connection in a 50-person household.

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Originally Posted by General Maximus

I did realise I had a twin The world is very lucky

Oh god, two of you?!