New FTTC Customer - slow Wifi speeds, great via Ethernet
Quote from: wilcochris So, I thought id check the speed with my phone practically on the router. Here are the pics of the speedtest and the location of fibre router, pn router and iPhone
Out of interest, have you tested any "faster" routers this way? I have a quad core android phone which still records much slower wifi speed test results than my macbook pro.
This sort of test is only really useful as a direct comparison. A lot of work goes into mobile handsets to tune the battery performance over speed. I mean, let's face it, do you need more than 45Mbps wifi to your phone?
Quote from: jimbof
Quote from: wilcochris So, I thought id check the speed with my phone practically on the router. Here are the pics of the speedtest and the location of fibre router, pn router and iPhone
Out of interest, have you tested any "faster" routers this way? I have a quad core android phone which still records much slower wifi speed test results than my macbook pro.
This sort of test is only really useful as a direct comparison. A lot of work goes into mobile handsets to tune the battery performance over speed. I mean, let's face it, do you need more than 45Mbps wifi to your phone?
Well, I was with Sky before and setup was the same (minus openreach) and the wifi speedtest was getting me line rates. Seems the wifi on this pn router is rubbish.
As an aside, it gets really hot really quick, so that's another reason for me to switch routers
Probably a sky router. Since that's all you can use on Sky Broadband
No they don't have Vdsl built in. But they are trialling new router which has VDSL. I believe and new customers will get the VDSL built in router.
That was the point I was making really - it sounds as if your complaint is that the wireless of the plusnet router is no good because it isn't achieving line speed saturation over wifi to your iphone, when your Sky test was actually limited by ADSL bandwidth if you didn't have an Openreach modem (ie how do you know that by the same test the Sky router would have been any better WIFI wise).
I have the same router and it is capable of line speed saturation across 2 floors of my house in a relatively congested wifi area (though I choose my channel carefully) - so I believe in the test you are running that actually the weak link is either the wireless environment you are in, or your iphone and not the plusnet router.
If the only problem you have is not being able to get a speed test higher than 45Mbps on your iphone then you probably should save your money and not buy another router as it isn't a problem really worth fixing!
I have the same router and it is capable of line speed saturation across 2 floors of my house in a relatively congested wifi area (though I choose my channel carefully) - so I believe in the test you are running that actually the weak link is either the wireless environment you are in, or your iphone and not the plusnet router.
If the only problem you have is not being able to get a speed test higher than 45Mbps on your iphone then you probably should save your money and not buy another router as it isn't a problem really worth fixing!
If you are working for Sky. Why don't you make sure that Sky gets my petition to enable subtitles on their on demand service. - http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/bskyb-enable-subtitles-for-ondemand
Why are you with Plusnet when you work for sky? Do you not get discounted prices on their broadband?
Why are you with Plusnet when you work for sky? Do you not get discounted prices on their broadband?
So Plusnet provide you fibre but sky can't?
Makes no sense.
Before I moved house I could get fibre so got Plusnet. But Sky couldn't provide fibre until a week before I moved.
Makes no sense.
Before I moved house I could get fibre so got Plusnet. But Sky couldn't provide fibre until a week before I moved.
Quote from: jimbof That was the point I was making really - it sounds as if your complaint is that the wireless of the plusnet router is no good because it isn't achieving line speed saturation over wifi to your iphone, when your Sky test was actually limited by ADSL bandwidth if you didn't have an Openreach modem (ie how do you know that by the same test the Sky router would have been any better WIFI wise).
I have the same router and it is capable of line speed saturation across 2 floors of my house in a relatively congested wifi area (though I choose my channel carefully) - so I believe in the test you are running that actually the weak link is either the wireless environment you are in, or your iphone and not the plusnet router.
If the only problem you have is not being able to get a speed test higher than 45Mbps on your iphone then you probably should save your money and not buy another router as it isn't a problem really worth fixing!
I wasn't really implying that i'll get a new router so I can get line speed saturation. The point I was trying to make is that the plusnet router wifi is rubbish. It matters not about the Openreach modem as I am not comparing trained in speeds. I was merely comparing wifi speeds.
I have to be that close to the plusnet router to get the best wifi possible. Any further away and it gets ridiculously slow over wifi. No congestion, partition walls are in place and a door. With the wifi on the Sky hub, this wasn't a problem. I was getting full N speeds over wifi.
With the plusnet router, to get even 54-63Mbps on wifi - I might as well have a b/g router - I have to be sitting right on top of the router.
This was the only point I was making in why I would get a new router
Quote from: wilcochris I have to be that close to the plusnet router to get the best wifi possible. Any further away and it gets ridiculously slow over wifi. No congestion, partition walls are in place and a door. With the wifi on the Sky hub, this wasn't a problem. I was getting full N speeds over wifi.
With the plusnet router, to get even 54-63Mbps on wifi - I might as well have a b/g router - I have to be sitting right on top of the router.
There must be something else at play with these TG582N routers then, as lots of people complain about them yet my wifi seems great. Here again is a test result I've just done, 2 floors away from the router.
Perhaps they don't have great range to a particular type of device / wifi radio, or are particularly badly effected by some other scenario.
There are a few little wifi tweaks that can be applied to the plusnet router over the telnet interface - see here: http://npr.me.uk/telnet.html. I've applied these to mine but I don't know if they make much difference. I also turned off all the power management stuff (also detailed on that page).
Ho hum, anyway hope you get sorted.