Hi guys,
We've lived in our house for only a few years, and the owners prior to us had cable run into every room. The room where I do my work in was an addition that was put on at some point, but still has cable. Our modem and router are currently in our 'office' alongside 2 other PCs (only one of which is used frequently). I've used WiFi for my desktop since we moved here as it'd be a huge hassle to run an Ethernet cable from there to the office, and as such my speeds are significantly worse than everywhere else in the house (office PC has 90/35, my PC has 50/5-15 (it fluctuates)).
I tried moving the modem and router to my room while using WiFi on our other computers. Speeds were hurt all around - my PC with its now-wired connect was only managing 10-15 down, <1 up, and all other devices were doing around that as well. Even just connecting my PC directly to the modem did not help. I moved the modem and router back and speeds went back to normal.
I'll be the first to say I don't know much about Internet, modems, routers etc, so I have no idea what to do. Is it possible that my room - which was built later than the rest of the house - has its cable just split from the other rooms on the second floor rather than directly connected? I apologize, I'm really no networking wiz.
Thank you!
We've lived in our house for only a few years, and the owners prior to us had cable run into every room. The room where I do my work in was an addition that was put on at some point, but still has cable. Our modem and router are currently in our 'office' alongside 2 other PCs (only one of which is used frequently). I've used WiFi for my desktop since we moved here as it'd be a huge hassle to run an Ethernet cable from there to the office, and as such my speeds are significantly worse than everywhere else in the house (office PC has 90/35, my PC has 50/5-15 (it fluctuates)).
I tried moving the modem and router to my room while using WiFi on our other computers. Speeds were hurt all around - my PC with its now-wired connect was only managing 10-15 down, <1 up, and all other devices were doing around that as well. Even just connecting my PC directly to the modem did not help. I moved the modem and router back and speeds went back to normal.
I'll be the first to say I don't know much about Internet, modems, routers etc, so I have no idea what to do. Is it possible that my room - which was built later than the rest of the house - has its cable just split from the other rooms on the second floor rather than directly connected? I apologize, I'm really no networking wiz.
Thank you!
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