Chris Norton
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- Boston, Lincs
basically 6 meg broadband. not bad for a sunday night. Does sound like the router is rubbish if wifi doesn't work.
It says "ping 47ms, download speed 5.8Mbps, upload speed .79mbps"
Sorry I have no idea what that means in real terms. Can you enlighten? The PC is about 4' away from the router and its got the wire thingy plugged into it. It won't do wi-fi as the white box thingy won't speak to my PC (1 year old). It won't speak to my brand new tablet either. I just reckon that its a waste of money.
It says "ping 47ms, download speed 5.8Mbps, upload speed .79mbps"
Sorry I have no idea what that means in real terms. Can you enlighten? The PC is about 4' away from the router and its got the wire thingy plugged into it. It won't do wi-fi as the white box thingy won't speak to my PC (1 year old). It won't speak to my brand new tablet either. I just reckon that its a waste of money.
My Sky broadband is pants. My signal strength wavers between low and moderately low. My year is up on the 31st May 2014 and I am counting the days.
Most days I cannot stream a video and I wouldn't dare download anything as the signal is not good enough.
I tried to use Sky when I was in Scotland and they were worse and I switched to BT PDQ. OH is a big sky fan. I think that they are rubbish.
I will be going with Plusnet on the 1st June next year.
I can't ask my neighbours really. One is more clueless than I, next door downstairs is a plumber when he works but is mostly drunk out of his head and upstairs next door are the noisy stoners.You should be able to Google for instructions about how to get your Sky router working using Wifi. It's pretty easy to follow, but appreciate a lot of people may shy away from it. Give it a go and post results back here if you need help.
5.8MBPS (megabits per second) isn't too bad, not brilliant. Should be enough to stream, YouTube, iPlayer should work.
You seem to have given up with it. Do you have a friendly neighbour who knows what they are doing? I remember for many years being "that bloke what knows how to sort out your network", was a bit of a rarity at the time, but these days most people seem to manage it.