My brother has terrible wireless speeds, varies greatly around the house. There are hardly any other networks visible, one I think. What he eventually found was that if he put the wireless router in the lounge he instantly got better speed, put it back in his office and the performance plummeted.

Insidder does not show interference, you need their Wi-Fi dongle for that, and it's rather expensive.

In reply to a post by yarwell:

what is the wireless link speed reported by the laptop ?

Hi

Im not particularly computer minded but I think it's 300Mbs (though Im sure that was reading 130 Mbs earlier today)

If you were going to do that, looking on Argos I would be looking for something like this.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/143...

If it didn't help you could return it like you say. Argos are always good with returns.
As an alternative: http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WDR4900-Wireless-...

Amazon are always good with returns too...
For the iPhone to see 50Mbps I think it must have been connecting to a dual band router. As far as I can tell iPhone 5 connects at around 65Mbps on 2.4 Ghz and maxes out around 35Mbps real world speed on WiFi (that's what I found).
5Ghz used to give me full 70Mbps.

The routers above uses 2.4 and 5ghz so the 5ghz devices should see a boost (if connected close to the router). The Amazon one is slightly better.

Just bear in mind 5ghz has less range compared to 2.4ghz and your devices need to be 5ghz ready.

Hi

Thanks for those links - really useful

Yeah I connected to a Virgin Media SuperHub to get those speeds - dodnt have a clue what 5Ghz was all about though

I have used inSSIDer to select the best channel for my home, have unplugged every electrical item that may be causing a problem and I don't get any improvement on my wireless speed.

All inSSIDer sees is routers.

A lot of the times the routers are all using a channel, usually higher such as channel 11.

Often lower channels are jam packed with cordless doorbells, baby monitors, wireless home alarm systems, some (not most) cordless phones, microwave ovens, wireless TV transmitters, bluetooth keyboards, bluetooth mouses etc etc.

Sometimes the busiest channel on inSSIDer can be the best channel to use. Routers on the same channel doesn't cause to much of an issue, they can co-exist quite well. As wireless doorbells etc are not as regulated / digital, being on a channel these use can cause so many more issues (and the worst part, you have no idea they're there).

Commonly these devices use channels 1 - 6, but a lot of devices are using the higher channels too.

Also it's important to note channel overlap. So really only channels 1 6 and 11 are free. If somebody goes on channel 4 it messes up the whole spectrum.
Most devices default to channel 1 6 or 11. A device on channel 6 will overlap from channel 4 to channel 8. So if you see a device on channel 6 and choose channel 5 or channel 4, you're still getting interference from the device on 6. If you choose channel 2 or 3 you'll be interfering with a device on channel 1.

See here for the overlapping on channels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2.4_GHz_Wi-Fi_chan...

Edited by ukhardy07 (Tue 30-Jul-13 14:41:26)

Depends really the new virgin hubs are 5ghz, the older ones are not.

It's a new one, installed 2 weeks ago )

Try using the HH2 as a WAP connected to the router.

it will vary, depending where you are in the house etc.

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

If you were going to do that, looking on Argos I would be looking for something like this.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/143...

If it didn't help you could return it like you say. Argos are always good with returns.
As an alternative: http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WDR4900-Wireless-...

Amazon are always good with returns too...
For the iPhone to see 50Mbps I think it must have been connecting to a dual band router. As far as I can tell iPhone 5 connects at around 65Mbps on 2.4 Ghz and maxes out around 35Mbps real world speed on WiFi (that's what I found).
5Ghz used to give me full 70Mbps.

The routers above uses 2.4 and 5ghz so the 5ghz devices should see a boost (if connected close to the router). The Amazon one is slightly better.

Just bear in mind 5ghz has less range compared to 2.4ghz and your devices need to be 5ghz ready.

Im not very smart when it comes to router ... so could anyone please advise me to the difference between these 2 models:

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/143...
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/139...

They both call themselves N600 but one is £20 cheaper...if they are both the same but one is a newer model is there any advantage to me getting the dearer one?

Thanks