Clear And Unbiased Facts About Wifi Booster (Without All the Hype)

9th Июнь , 2020

I’ve the latest Sky Hub router linked to a Apple Time Capsule. The download speed signaled by Sky is 9MB. The majority of my equipment is hard wired through Home Plugs, however I have to require the wiFi sign for my devices, iPhones, iPads etc.. The signal is very weak in areas of the house, such that I could be sitting on one side of the settee and get a weak signal, but it disappears if I move to the other end. I have three problems:-

1) Could my present setup be improved in some way?

2) The Sky router gets a very bad inspection and is far behind the competition. Would replacing that help my issue and if so recommendations of replacements would be appreciated.

Sky do not want to know, as they are not likely to be advocating any 3rd party alternatives.

Posted on Nov 29, 2015 2:46 AM.

1) Could my present setup be improved in some way?

So, relocating the Sky router may improve things considerably based on where you use your wireless devices most often.

2) The Sky router gets a very bad inspection and is far behind the competition. Would replacing that help my issue and if so recommendations of replacements would be appreciated.

Without more testing, it is not actually possible to state whether your operation has been limited by the Sky router or your Home Plugs. After that, connect your computer directly to one of the home plugs in where you generally use your devices and inspect the speed at that place. Report on your results.

It is all dependent on your house Plug evaluations in 2) above. If the signal in the remote Home Plug is slow, then the remote wireless router which you install will receive a slow sign and little to no advantage in performance will be accomplished. On the other hand, if the remote Home Plug displays good speed in 2) above, you then are going to have more powerful and faster wireless protection if you join a remote router to the Home Plug.

The bottom line here is that if you are thinking about an Apple router. Or some other router. Its performance is only going to be as good as the signal it receives through the Home Plug system devices which you’ve installed. Practically without exception, connecting devices using a wired Ethernet cable will yield better outcomes than a connection through Home Plug devices.

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1) Could my present setup be improved in some way?

So, relocating the Sky router may improve things considerably based on where you use your wireless devices most often.

2) The Sky router gets a very bad inspection and is far behind the competition. Would replacing that help my issue and if so recommendations of replacements would be appreciated.

Without more testing, it is not actually possible to state whether your operation has been limited by the Sky router or your Home Plugs. After that, connect your computer directly to one of the home plugs in where you generally use your devices and inspect the speed at that place. Report on your results.

It is all dependent on your house Plug evaluations in 2) above. If the signal in the remote Home Plug is slow, then the remote wireless router which you install will receive a slow sign and little to no advantage in performance will be accomplished. On the other hand, if the remote Home Plug displays good speed in 2) above, you then are going to have more powerful and faster wireless protection if you join a remote router to the Home Plug.

The bottom line here is that if you are thinking about an Apple router. Or some other router. Its performance is only going to be as good as the signal it receives through the Home Plug system devices which you’ve installed. Practically without exception, connecting devices using a wired Ethernet cable will yield better outcomes than a connection through Home Plug devices.

Thanks for your detailed reply.

First of all my Router and Time Capsule are in my analysis, with my iMac 27". Obviously, no problems there. Checking with Sky says incoming in 9MB. All wireless device indicates OK stronger wifi signal, if I’m in that room, and the majority of the house. My Home Plugs work nice and are connected to TV, Apple TV, Playstation 4, HD Recorder etc.. They all receive a decent signal and perform satisfactorily. My difficulty is iPhone and iPad in certain areas of the Lounge,( which can be two or three rooms away from the router and rely upon the WiFi signal. Transferring the router wouldn’t be an option as I do not need anymore wiring. My point was if a wifi extender would help.

If you are stating that the Time Capsule is providing your own wireless network, then a AirPort Express could connect to the Time Capsule wireless and "stretch " or "replicate " the wireless signal, which means you’d have a quicker and quicker wireless signal in the sofa area.

The Time Capsule will generally run circles around a wireless router provided by most providers, so if you are not utilizing the Time Capsule wireless in this time, you may want to try that to see if provides more selection of signal compared to the Sky router. Depending on the construction of your home, the Time Capsule may provider a more powerful signal in the sofa area with no other devices being needed.

If you are stating that the Sky device is providing your wireless signal, then a AirPort Express wouldn’t have the ability to link to the system using wireless then ‘stretch " or "replicate " it. But, I f you’ve a HomePlug device found in the sofa area, you can connect an AirPort Express to the device using a short Ethernet cable and then configure the Express to make a wireless system which uses the exact same wireless network name and password as the Sky network. That would result in a far more powerful wireless signal in the sofa area.

If you want to have another device link to the Sky wireless sign and "replicate " or "stretch " the system that way, then you will need to check with Sky to see if they have the kind of device that you need that would be compatible with your current Sky router.

The speed of your wireless Internet connection won’t ever be any quicker than than the link that Sky provides. In that respect, if you need a faster wireless sign, you’ll need to speak to Sky about a quicker connection plan.

I’m utilizing the Time Capsule to ship the wireless signal offered from the Sky Router. It’s that sign which is not extending to the far reaches of my house. I do know that Sky are discovering the strength of the sign, but wondered if their device was poor, if or not a ‘greater ‘ router, would make any difference?

Would you confirm that the speed of the Sky router is 9 megabytes MB/s (as stated by you, and very quickly ) or 9 megabits Mb/s.

My Sky Hub standing says:- DownStream Connection Speed 9006.

I apologise if I’ve got the terminology wrong, but fail to see where that takes us. I gave the download speed for info.

Well that’s kilobits, also called 9 megabits, and every much slower compared to 9 megabytes, accuracy helps.

9 megabits is slow, and as the scope increases it gets diminished. Extending it won’t make it quicker (actually the reverse is true), so I would consider raising the speed before raising the scope.

A much better router in other words (and perhaps a better place for it)

So, the Sky router is providing 9 Mb/s.

How does that compare to the Internet connection plan which tells you exactly what speed your plan with Sky is assumed to be delivering to you?

Should you don’t know exactly what your connection speed is assumed to be. And for example it turns out to be 30 Mb/s. Then Sky is not delivering what they claim to the Sky router. or. The Sky router can’t deliver the 30 Mb/s sign it is getting from the Sky service.

There’s not much point in going any farther with this until we have a beginning point. That being if the Sky router is doing exactly what is really supposed to do.

The Time Capsule is only likely to be as good as the signal it receives over Ethernet from the Sky router. It can’t make the sign it receives from the Sky device go any quicker.

Yes the router is providing 9Mb/s. Apologies for any confusion, but that is the reason you are levels 10 and 8 , while I’m 1. The connection speed that I’m supposed to receive is between 3 and 7, so I’m getting significantly better than they anticipate. The 9 is not an aberration like I have had it for years. It must be due to a locational quirk. So yes, the router is doing exactly what it is supposed to do, and much more.

" I would consider raising the speed before raising the scope. A much better router in other words (and perhaps a better place for it)"

My question is, could a router, translate the 9Mb/s from Sky, right into a much better sign, within the house or would a wifi extender do the job?

The Sky router is doing its job, so a "greater " Sky router wouldn’t offer any improvement concerning signal speed.

Now, we must talk about wireless signal power. If you want to leave the Time Capsule at which it is currently found, there are two basic methods that would deliver increased signal power to the sofa area.

Method 1. Finest performance. Add an AirPort Express in the couch area (preferably where it’ll have line-of-sight with the wireless devices you will use in the lounge area. Connect an Ethernet cable from the AirPort Express back to the Time Capsule. With this setup, you can expect about equal wireless functionality and speed as you’ve now when you are in the analysis.

Next Greatest Performance. If you can’t conduct the Ethernet cable between the Time Capsule place and AirPort Express in the analysis, use a pair of HomePlug adapters to send the Ethernet sign in that manner. IF. That the Home Plug adapters will deliver 8-9 Mbps speeds to the AirPort Express, then the AirPort Express performance will be quite near the functionality of utilizing an Ethernet cable.

Method 2. Substantial Compromise Performance. If you can’t run the Ethernet cable or use Home Plug adapters to send a sign to the AirPort Express, then, the Express does have the capability of having a wireless signal and "extending" or "replicating " it toward the couch area. This kind of method will deliver more wireless signal power to the couch area. but. And this is a big BUT. There’ll be a signal speed loss of at least half when you use this method. So the very best performance you could hope to achieve is a sign which is both weaker and slower at the couch area it is currently near the analysis.

There’ll be an advancement in the signal quality in the sofa area, so Strategy 2 may be good enough to achieve your objective of a better signal quality at the sofa area. Nonetheless, you won’t know how well this procedure might work. Or IF it may do the job. Until you try it out in your home.

Now, it is your choice to decide if you want to proceed and how you want to proceed.