Home wifi problems

[Chris Millar]

We currently have sky broadband the we are bound to through a contract. My brother, my dad and I all have pc's. Whenever more than one of us use the wifi, one of us won't be able to do anything. If I'm playing a game my my ping will go from 60 to 1500 In second. We are currently looking for a solution to improve the problem.we are looking at possibly getting a better router or getting wifi booster. I wa just wondering if someone could give some advice at what would produce the best results.

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have a look at powerline before you get any additional wifi hardware. Wifi extenders are crap and will prob make things worse, they only extend range. Turn off your mobile phone wifi, that should halve the number of devices interacting with the router

[Chris Millar]

5 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

have a look at powerline before you get any additional wifi hardware. Wifi extenders are crap and will prob make things worse, they only extend range. Turn off your mobile phone wifi, that should halve the number of devices interacting with the router

It just seems to be that one device will use all the wifi and it won't be shared amoung devices.

[ProLogic]

You can get routers that share the bandwidth fairly, you can look into them, but as @SCHISCHKA said, powerline or running ethernet cables to every computer is the best way to rectify the solution.

[Chris Millar]

27 minutes ago, ProLogic said:

You can get routers that share the bandwidth fairly, you can look into them, but as @SCHISCHKA said, powerline or running ethernet cables to every computer is the best way to rectify the solution.

We were wanting to do that but the router we currently have doesn't have enough ports unfortunately.

[ProLogic]

5 minutes ago, Chris Millar said:

We were wanting to do that but the router we currently have doesn't have enough ports unfortunately.

You can get cheap switches for less that £10 here in the UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-SF1005D-Unmanaged-Desktop-Switch/dp/B000FNFSPY

they are $10 in the US also https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-SF1005D-Unmanaged-Desktop-Switch/dp/B000FNFSPY

 

I have one of these, its a lovely little switch, great for a TV media setup (I'm using it to connect my three media boxes, TV, DVD and a console to the internet)

 

EDIT: Powerline only requires one connection to the router, you can pair the adaptors together, so if you get 2 kits, you can hook three computers up.

[Chris Millar]

3 minutes ago, ProLogic said:

You can get cheap switches for less that £10 here in the UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-SF1005D-Unmanaged-Desktop-Switch/dp/B000FNFSPY

they are $10 in the US also https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-SF1005D-Unmanaged-Desktop-Switch/dp/B000FNFSPY

There is products that put the wifi through the power and you con then directly pug in your computer from there. Do think this would help. Unfortunately it would be quite difficult to directly the router into all the computers as they are at opposite ends of the house.

[ProLogic]

1 minute ago, Chris Millar said:

There is products that put the wifi through the power and you con then directly pug in your computer from there. Do think this would help. Unfortunately it would be quite difficult to directly the router into all the computers as they are at opposite ends of the house.

 

Yeah, they are called powerline, you can get ones that also host a hotspot on one end (I can't get mine to work though) 

If you get two of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TL-PA4010KIT-V1-20-Powerline-Configuration-Required/dp/B01BECPIMC/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1480107893&sr=1-1&keywords=tplink+powerline

You can connect your three computers up, One plug per computer and one at the router.

[Chris Millar]

2 hours ago, ProLogic said:

Yeah, they are called powerline, you can get ones that also host a hotspot on one end (I can't get mine to work though) 

If you get two of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TL-PA4010KIT-V1-20-Powerline-Configuration-Required/dp/B01BECPIMC/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1480107893&sr=1-1&keywords=tplink+powerline

You can connect your three computers up, One plug per computer and one at the router.

Do you think they make a difference.

[ProLogic]

1 minute ago, Chris Millar said:

Do you think they make a difference.

They would if my experience is normal, I remember when i ran my first PC (a prebuilt Packard bell PC) and i used wifi, but after a while, i tried ethernet and i couldn't go back, powerline is essentially ethernet but using the power cables in your walls.

[Chris Millar]

1 minute ago, ProLogic said:

They would if my experience is normal, I remember when i ran my first PC (a prebuilt Packard bell PC) and i used wifi, but after a while, i tried ethernet and i couldn't go back, powerline is essentially ethernet but using the power cables in your walls.

Ok thanks for the help.

[ProLogic]

2 minutes ago, Chris Millar said:

Ok thanks for the help.

No problem