Better WiFi signal needed

[#1]

Hi, we have plusnet full fibre, & live in a not particularly big house, my son is finding that upstairs in his room, the signal is not strong enough to support cloud streaming & its annoyingly laggy.

How can we fix this please, a better router or an access point in his room?

Any advice appreciated, thank you.

[#2]

Hard wired from the device to the router is always best. If it is a wireless device, hard wired to an access point in their room.

[#3]

@Pumba2111   Welcome to the Plusnet Community Fora.

Your options: https://community.plus.net/t5/Tech-Help-Software-Hardware-etc/Distributing-Data-around-Larger-Proper...

If you need further advice on any of these then do please ask.

[#4]

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Thread moved from Full Fibre to My Router

[#5]

@Pumba2111 

Is there any chance of running ethernet cable upstairs - either internally or externally?

Brian

[#6]

Yes there is an Ethernet cable running up to the room already, which is plugged in to PlayStation, maybe better off plugged in to an access point in his room ?

[#7]

Thank you, I took a look at the link you sent but I must say it was past my levels of comprehension! There is already an Ethernet cable from the router downstairs up to my son’s bedroom,& he plugs that in to his gaming consoles.

The console he’s having trouble streaming from though is a handheld device with no point to attach an Ethernet cable to, so maybe the Ethernet cable would be better plugged in to an access point in his room ?

Our house isn’t big & the router is directly at the bottom of the stairs, his bedroom is directly at the top of the stairs, so maybe we just have a weak connection or need a different package?

Thank you

[#8]

@Pumba2111 

If you have an old router these can sometimes be provisioned as a WAP.

Failing that, you do get purpose built WAP's, some of which will have a spare ethernet port. One of these would do fine, as you would still be able to plug in the PlayStation to ethernet with a WAP for the WiFi.

Brian