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Morning all.
I have a rather odd broadband issue and I'm wondering if anyone else has ever experienced the same and if so, how did to resolve it? bit of background;
We've lived in this house for 4 years, all of which time the router has sat in the same place. We have had 3 broadband providers, Sky/EE/BT and now EE again as of 4 days ago. Without exception all the providers have hit on this issue. The speed to the house is 36 mb (This is good for us as we live in a village in deepest darkest Essex) once it hits the router the wifi sometimes slows to as little as 1-2mb download. The key word here is sometimes... Sometimes its absolutely fine and stable for months. All the providers have sent out engineers and have given me new routers and in the case of BT and EE disks to extend the signal. We can go months without an issue, then it kicks in. The ONLY thing that's consistent is switching off the router or as in this morning case, a power cut. As soon as power is restored I'm D/L at full whack for about 5 minutes then it's back to 1-2mb again. Bloody frustrating!
As I said, this is very intermittent but I can't continue now we have 2 working from home and 3 kids doing zooms. It just doesn't work. Not forgetting wireless security systems, Ring doorbell, Alexa etc. We pretty much grind to a halt.
Even ethernet only makes a small difference, bringing the speed up to 6-7 mb
Any ideas? I'd love to solve this before I change providers again...
Cheers in advance,
Nick
I have a rather odd broadband issue and I'm wondering if anyone else has ever experienced the same and if so, how did to resolve it? bit of background;
We've lived in this house for 4 years, all of which time the router has sat in the same place. We have had 3 broadband providers, Sky/EE/BT and now EE again as of 4 days ago. Without exception all the providers have hit on this issue. The speed to the house is 36 mb (This is good for us as we live in a village in deepest darkest Essex) once it hits the router the wifi sometimes slows to as little as 1-2mb download. The key word here is sometimes... Sometimes its absolutely fine and stable for months. All the providers have sent out engineers and have given me new routers and in the case of BT and EE disks to extend the signal. We can go months without an issue, then it kicks in. The ONLY thing that's consistent is switching off the router or as in this morning case, a power cut. As soon as power is restored I'm D/L at full whack for about 5 minutes then it's back to 1-2mb again. Bloody frustrating!
As I said, this is very intermittent but I can't continue now we have 2 working from home and 3 kids doing zooms. It just doesn't work. Not forgetting wireless security systems, Ring doorbell, Alexa etc. We pretty much grind to a halt.
Even ethernet only makes a small difference, bringing the speed up to 6-7 mb
Any ideas? I'd love to solve this before I change providers again...
Cheers in advance,
Nick