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but now you recommend a £10 cheaper Asus?
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Eh? You're moaning about £10? That's the cost of two pints around here, and I don't even drink.
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Originally Posted by Deathcrush87
ok. you see my dear General, im using a wifi card that only has a 300 mb/s thing.
and we use a 100 mb VM plan.
and no one in the house has a 5ghz wifi device, beside the PS3 guy, and he really doesnt care.
so, is going for a 800mbits really gonna have much impact?
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Given the PS3 is the biggest console
without 5Ghz WiFi I have a hard time believing the rest of your information.
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Originally Posted by pip08456
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
When you get a letter in the not too distant future from VM telling you you are being upgraded to 150mbits for free you will be back here moaning your ass off you can't get over 90. Wifi is the way forward and everything is moving to 5ghz and ac so you had might as well get something which is compatible/future proofed now otherwise next time somebody buys a console/phone/tablet/laptop they will be moaning it is slow or they cant take advantage of the full potential of their device.
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Couldn't agree more General. |
I could, but I won't.
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Originally Posted by Deathcrush87
sometimes in life you should look at what you have, not at what you could have..
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Then why are we here at all?
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Originally Posted by pip08456
"what is the best channel? "
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14 is
always the best channel!
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Originally Posted by Deathcrush87
every hour or so i save the BQM monitor as a png file, so it would make sense to him that there is actually a problem with our internet.
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You realise the BQM is only worth updating once a day and Thinkbroadband already provides an archive of every PNG file you can download at any time, right?
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Originally Posted by pip08456
300-600Mbps and 1300+Mbps ish
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In this case it's 450 vs 1300.
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Originally Posted by Eeeps
The only way forward is to get a [..] Ethernet cable.
I have never used powerline systems but question if two disparate systems can be used together on the same internal wiring? I know that the standards say so but do they actually work together?
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Very rarely. Symptoms exactly like this are more the norm.
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Originally Posted by Deathcrush87
so the SH2ac is not backward compatible, is that right?
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You've already been told ten times it's backwards compatible.
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tbh, i get quite confusing replies here, one says the powerline is bad, the other says its good, the other says you need 5ghz, and one claims wifi is garbage and that solid wired connection is the only way to go.
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It's very simple.
Cable ethernet > Powerline > Wireless > Crappy mixed up broken powerline that you don't know how to use.
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im running on a very limited budget now, and my first priority is to fix the stability of the internet.
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You've already been told ten times your internet is perfectly stable.
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one day my connection is so good, the next hour it can not open a wikipedia webpage. one minute my ping is over 1000, the other its less than 30 ms.
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You've already been told ten times that is the fault of your powerline network.
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my own guess says the problem is either Virgin or the router (SH1).
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Your own guess is wrong. Maybe listen to what you've already been told ten times by five different people.
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lets go step by step. lets see if SH2 would fix some of the issues.
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We already have. You're ignoring the facts.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
The only way to guarantee consistent speeds is a cabled link - having said that, I am getting 133Mb/s wifi, but that is on an iPad Pro about 10 feet from my SH2AC.
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^^ Eleven times?
My phone gets about 800Mbps, but that's because I use hacks.
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Originally Posted by Eeeps
Did you disconnect all the other powerline units? Not just the one at the SH1?
What test did you perform after you disconnected the other units?
I would suggest that you need to perform some careful diagnosis test to properly identify where the problem lies.
Test your BT powerline adapter in isolation.
Disconnect all other power line systems and then:-
1. Test the BT system in the same room
2. Test the BT system attic to router
3. Reconnect the other powerline and test again.
The best test is to use the ping command with an extended payload...
On Windows...
ping -l 10000 192.168.0.1 -n 60
This should return zero packet loss and low consistent (<50ms) response time.
Only when you have confirmed your internal network is working ok can you start to point you finger at Virgin.
As mentioned before, the SH1 Wi-Fi has particularly poor range.
If Wi-Fi is the way to go (I doubt it), then one solution would be to connect a cheap good quality wireless 'n' dual band (2.4 and 5Ghz concurrent) router to your existing SH1 and site it on the first floor (or maybe in an elevated position on the ground floor).
Regarding testing the broadband bit directly on the router, do you not know any friends who would be willing to assist with a laptop?
If so, put the SH1 into modem mode and connect the laptop and run a few speed tests. If they can be run at 6am, 2pm and 10pm that would give you a good basis to judge the VM bit.
Cheers,
Ian
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^^ This.
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