What would be the best solution to boost the speed to Xbox

Basically I have EE FTTP 500Mbps. Which is great, but I can only get around 180-200Mbps on my Xbox Series X in my bedroom (router is downstairs). Would wired powerline adaptors be a good solution to boost my speeds to my Series X? The house is only around 25 years old. There's no way I can run cabling from the Router to the Xbox.

Many thanks

Is the Xbox connecting via WiFi ?

What speeds do you see if you connect the Xbox via an ethernet cable ? If they are the same, it might be the xbox that is the pinch point.

Power line adaptors are dirty business. Don’t do it

Yes, I am connecting my Xbox via WiFi. My Xbox is in my bedroom, and my router is downstairs in the living room. There is no way to connect it via Ethernet cable really.

You could at least take it down to the router temporarily and use an ethernet cable to test.

What about a decent mesh WiFi system ?

As I'm with EE, might their EE Smart WiFi Plus make a difference?

No idea … have heard some horror stories about their routers from folk.

You really need to do a little bit of legwork and find out what the cause of this issue is, rather than just clutching at straws to see if you can stumble across the fix

Powerline is probably not going to run any faster than you are already getting - even the fastest adapters over a real world power circuit are not likely to get faster than 200Mbps.

I use an Eero 6+ mesh network and on the further reaches I get between 200-300Mbps - this is with 3 adapters in a 4 bedroom house. Realistically the best way to get more than 200Mbps in most cases is to hard wire cables - if you can't do that then you may find you spend a lot of money trying different things for relatively little gain.

I have toyed with trying Wifi 7 in the house but the costs of a proper wifi 7 network are just not something I can justify and I still think I wouldn't see the full 500Mbps (I used to have 1Gbps and downgraded to 500Mbps because there was almost nowhere in the house I could use it - I could likely downgrade to 300Mbps and not see much difference but I pay the little bit extra for the additional upload rather than expecting better download over my wireless).

And before anyone says it I am not likely to wire the house any time soon as much as I would like to (the benefits are not enough at this point and the wife would not be keen - if I could justify the extra speed then I could convince the wife but I can't really justify it even to myself).

I have a wired Xbox X and when downloading I rarely get above 300Mb on a 500Mb connection. If a new game patch comes out and many people are downloading, it's even lower. I wouldn't worry about it.
The built in speed test over wired can reach 500 btw, it's just XBox Live that is slow.
The only thing I would agree with is the use of a cabled connection. I often remind people that ethernet cables can be run externally to upper floors, so don't discount a cable connection until you have explored all routes.

I have a long ethernet cable that I use to test from the router downstairs to the PC upstairs. It's no big deal for a few minutes to have a trailing cable.

In reply to a post by Adduxi:

I often remind people that ethernet cables can be run externally to upper floors, so don't discount a cable connection until you have explored all routes.

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My house was built with dot and dab to fix the plasterboard, which leaves voids, so some of my ethernet goes behind that before it goes outside and up the wall to the attic. Standard builders' skirtings have two profiles, one either side, which gives a space to run cables behind, too. Then when I had laminate flooring laid in the hall I routed some ethernet under it to get from the living room/office to the hall and the integral garage.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

I have a long ethernet cable that I use to test from the router downstairs to the PC upstairs. It's no big deal for a few minutes to have a trailing cable.

The suggestions i would give if you do not want to run cables to the first floor (if you are renting etc) are below

move the router to the bottom of the stairs - if you a mesh capable unit - get a second one and put it at the top of the stairs.

the other idea would be point to point wifi outside and beam the wifi back into the room that way (semi janky but workable)

Do check your xbox is ok via the cable route.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

I have a long ethernet cable that I use to test from the router downstairs to the PC upstairs. It's no big deal for a few minutes to have a trailing cable.

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