Hi,
I recently upgraded from 350 mbps to 500 mbps as my contract renewed and I got a lower price. I never truly got 350 originally or anything like it, and don't expect (but do want) 500..., but the key issue is for kids getting bandwidth for on-line learning.
After activation I got some Ookla speed tests of 350 mbps for a couple of hours but nothing remotely since then - in the <75 range download.
That said I live in a house with brick walls and some beams from an extension, so ethernet had always been the solution (Devolo).
I have a Hub 3.0 with a booster plugged into it and another booster upstairs for my daughter as wifi is truly appalling - actually worse than when I had Devolo!
Questions:
- I have a booster still attached to the Hub - does it need to stay there or can it be used the same was as the other hub upstairs, i.e. placed elsewhere or does it need the Hub ethernet attached to it all of the time, ergo stay next to the hub? (Why bother???)
- I just want to make things easy for the kids and so ethernet is really the only route I can go (I think) and that comes through the booster in their room with the ethernet socket at the base of the booster;
- Can I still use Devolo, etc. boosters - surely they are on the same "bhng" etc. protocols, or have VM tweaked theirs for commercial reasons. Must I still only use VM boosters?
- With download speeds am I barking? We have device to hub and then hub to internet servers. I am happy to be wrong but I have always believed that a full signal (pyramid of signal strength) was between my device and the hub/router (VM responsibility) and thereafter it was the external web server performance getting stuff BACK to my hub which I or VM have no control over? Am I barking?
Cheers guys, any thoughts much appreciated 🙂