Speeds.

[Tippon]

The Duke wrote:

I’ll delete any pro or negative brexit posts. Unless they are relevant to the thread.

How about ‘Brexit is an awful idea, and it’s made my internet slow’? ???

[Dave Rice]

I distinctly remember being promised 350 million bytes per second.

[Richard]

All I know is that my weight loss has recently improved slightly to 3.7Kg in the last month, though 3Kg of that was in the last two weeks. Only about 10Kg more to go, but 7 inches less on my waist since this belt was bought a while back. This is totally irrelevant to the thread but a bit more positive than my Internet speed which is close to one notch above glacial.

[JayCeeDee]

D-Dan wrote:

TT seem to do a lot of heavy marketing, though personally I can place no faith in them.

 

I’m similar to you on that score – but I tend to use TT prices to persuade Sky to give me a better deal than they want to.

I’m lucky in respect that I’ve had a solid 18Meg download for the last 3 years, I think it’s dropped to 13/14 on the odd time but not really worse than that, but I struggle to get more than 0.8 u/l and with more cloud backup services around, I’m hankering for 40/10 fibre!! Also Virgin have just cabled our road/village/District so that will add a bit of leverage when it comes to deal with Sky. I’m already out of contract.?

[JayCeeDee]

Dave Rice wrote:

I distinctly remember being promised 350 million bytes per second.

?That’s when you’re on holiday – and it was mossies!!? You’re lucky atm – they’re all football fans and have gone East!!?

[Bob Williams]

Well if we don’t get a promised lift from an EU contribution to our Rural broadband around here before we leave, it will certainly have affected my speeds!

Richard congratulations on that huge weight loss, I can’t match that.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Les.]

Dave, I changed my router about 8 months ago. This one was from my pal who had just gone to a new contract. I will change back to my previous one which is possibly 18 months old.

If it stays bad, I will start at the incoming pair, then eventually start complaining. Whenever I have complained in the past, they did a speed test and of course it was OK.

Les.

[Les.]

Well, I changed my router to the last new one I had from MT.  No drop outs from my PC to router since. But I changed it for a good reason at the time?

I will do a speed check now.     —-  Well, I will be *********! Ping 38ms, D/L = 13.80mb/s, U/L 0.69mb/s. Highest D/L and U/L figures that I have ever measured.

Les.

[Dave Rice]

I swear by Draytek routers but they aren’t cheap. They have bullet proof reliability and loads of features I like for business, like dial in VPN.

Having said that, just been looking and the sub £40 TP-Link TD-W9970 I put in for my cousin after their BT Hub did it’s disappearing act. Its been up since the day I installed it in early May providing 80 down 20 up and a WiFi guest network for their 3 storey Victorian B&B.

[The Duke]

Ive been getting many drop outs, since about Xmas on my Asus router. I’m thinking it’s on its last legs. I’m yet to give it a full factory reset (it is on the latest os patch).

The reason I’ve not done a full reset is all the iot crap I have, will take me a good while to set back up.

Once I get off my jollies, late August, I’m going to first give it a full factory reset, if that’s the same, load up one of latest, stable, open source offerings. There are a few for my router.

It’s served well for over 4 years so it may be age, and I may be in the market for a new router. Given the market has shifted over that time, it looks like I can replace my £150 (4 years plus ago) with a £40ish router, Which sounds nice.

[Dave Rice]

It depends what you want. £40 won’t get you 5Ghz AC for example.

[The Duke]

Shame. I’ll probably fork out about the same as I did for the one I have. Sort of top consumer/budget prosumer kit.

A good rule of thumb for most purchases I find.

[Dave Rice]

Yep, it needs that sort of price. Or separation of wireless from router.

[The Duke]

I suppose I could seperate the two, but that just adds more complexity.

I still have the old original BT open reach FTTC white modem type box, then my wifi router. I’ve never looked at seoerating the router for the WiFi. Mainly cos it would mean anther box needing another power outlet.

I must have 10 things being powered out of the two 2 sockets avalible to me.

I’m in holiday mode now, so I’ll look in to it late August.

[JayCeeDee]

I’ve been looking around to try and improve my wifi signal. I thought that THIS would help, but it didn’t really. What I need is a good wifi signal in the main bedroom to stream Sky Go, Netflix, NowTV and Prime onto my iPad Pro. Also in the spare bedroom for when the son comes visiting.

I’ve been looking at the Netgear Orbi – an expensive option – or some combination of a Powerline link to a wifi output ( not found anything that looks like it will work together yet.)  This would be placed in the loft ( directly above the bedroom ) and I reckon that would give me a very good signal all round the bungalow.

[Dave Rice]

That is the best place for an AP (on the ceiling below the loft though). For 300Mbps N I use these and for not much more you can get 1200Mbps AC

You need to run an Ethernet cable to them but that could end up in a Homeplug. If you get them from the link they will set them up for free with a cloud controller, all you do is put them up. If you find you need two (or more) they will automatically work together to provide a single roaming network. There are even external versions so you can barbecue and browse at the same time.

That’s why they can seem tricky to set up at first. The SSIDs and security etc belong to a site, not the AP. The APs are assigned to a site where their job is to distribute those SSIDs. This is very different to the consumer world where you assign SSIDs and security to an AP and then expect APs to work together when they are in fact self contained.

The cloud “controller” just sets them up and collects usage data. Once the APs are assigned they will work together without the controller until the crack of doom.

[Ed P]

Nice Dave – what happens when the ‘free’ three years is up?

Your comments imply that other than possible security updates the Cloud Control is redundant soon after set-up —-true?

[JayCeeDee]

Thanks Dave – that looks great. I don’t see myself needing the AC, the N will do nicely. I’m only going to get 36Meg fibre, and I can run a cable up from the router into the loft and then down onto the hallway ceiling. That should give me a good spread of coverage.

It would be adjacent to central heating pipes, but I can run it to the loft inside a 20mm plastic conduit.

The Sky website wanted to charge me for Sky Q, but I’m happy with the Sky+HD box and the old hub. As I’m a VIP Diamond, I get free installation and delivery. We’ll see what they can do – if not there’s always TT!!

 

@ricedg – Dave – do you need the cloud controller after the free 3 years??

[Dave Rice]

No you don’t, but it’s not rocket science to set up your own on a PC (or Pi) once you have your head around it. The beauty is you have 3 years to look at it or just pay £1 a month after that.

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