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Superfast Virgin Broadband but rubbish WiFi

Oct 4, 2018 6:06AM PDT

I have a Virgin Media Superhub 3 that was installed last week and delivers the advertised speed of 300+mbs if wired by Ethernet cable. The problem however is that the WiFi performance is terrible (either producing less than 10mbs or dropping out completely in some rooms around the house). Virgin Media offered no help whatsoever saying that they can only guarantee broadband speeds into the router and not WiFi speed.

We are just about to get the upstairs of our 3 bedroom house re-wired and as part of this will install internet points in each bedroom, connected to the Virgin Media router via Ethernet cables.

I have 2 questions that I’m hoping someone can help me with.

1. Is there a better way of projecting stronger Wifi around the house from the router?
2. What should I plug into the internet points in the bedrooms to create a stronger WiFi signal in each room?

Another point that I may explore is changing the channel of the broadband but I’m not convinced that will help if the Virgin router is the problem.

Any thoughts and ideas massively appreciated.

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300 mbps on WiFi
Oct 4, 2018 8:43AM PDT

Will require all ducks be in a row. That is some good AC router, router as a WAP (google that) or WAPs.

If this was mine I'd start with a nice router as a WAP. This will have to be some router with gigabit ports and high speed WiFi. CNET has routers up at https://www.cnet.com/topics/networking/best-networking-devices/ but stick to routers with gigabit Ethernet ports or the speed will suffer.

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Rubbish wifi
Oct 5, 2018 4:39PM PDT

Wifi is almost always going to be slower than direct ethernet connection. If you are having ports installed in your bedrooms and require best speed I would plug my machines in directly.

If this is not acceptable, then you have 2 choices imho.

Google mesh wifi works well for extending the range into other rooms.

Best wifi solution is to install access points at your new ethernet connections. I use this method in approximately 7000 sq ft house and it works well.