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Moving router

Rckbks
Joining in

I’m looking to move my router upstairs due to connectivity issues. Two people can’t play on a console at the same time without lag, so hoping that if it’s upstairs it’ll prevent that from happening.

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jbrennand
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Very Insightful Person

Just call it in on the faults line, its a "routine" job for CS... there will be a £25 charge.

What Hub model do you have and what package are you on?

Are the consoles connecting by wifi?  If so they will work far better if you can connect them on ethernet cables running from the Hub - is that feasible?

If not you could try connecting them on a pair of good quality powerline adaptors - although not liked by many on here see my old post below.   Or improve the wifi signal at the locations of the consoles lots of posts on here have details of how to do that

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My lad is a serious internet gamer who thinks wifi is the work of Satan and should never be used for gaming. Ethernet cabling your devices is always the best way to go, but running cable to his room was problematic. So he uses a pair of Solwise AC1200 powerline adapters. His PC/Xbox/PS3 can now all be "wired" - with short Cat6 cables – back to the wireless router downstairs and he gets a solid 60-100 Mbps on our 350 package - he hasn't complained once in years!
Worth considering whether that will work for your house on your mains circuits, the two circuits must go through the same consumer unit/fuse box (most do) and be free of any "noise". You can also add a wifi access point alongside to boost that up there as well. Or some PA’s have built in wifi too - look at the TP-Link offerings.

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John
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I do not work for VM. My services: HD TV on VIP (+ Sky Sports & Movies & TNT sport), x3 V6 boxes (1 wired, 2 on WiFi), Hub5 in modem mode with Apple Airport Extreme Router +2 Airport Express's & TP-Link Archer C64 WAP. On Volt 350Mbps, Talk Anytime Phone, x2 Mobile SIM only iPhones.