The good news is that you can disable Wi-Fi with Sky Q by following our guide:. By doing this, Sky Q will actually be more reliable and the process can potentially free up four 20 MHz Wi-Fi channels for your own Wi-Fi network to improve speeds and performance. Upgrade to Wi-Fi 6, which offers significantly better speeds than Wi-Fi 5.
Wi-Fi 6 is the latest Wi-Fi technology. In the very best signal conditions and using the latest devices, Wi-Fi 6 can significantly outperform Wi-Fi 5, with throughputs of about Mbps, i. Particularly if you have a gigabit broadband connection and intend to operate multiple Access Points, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to Wi-Fi 6 to maximise Wi-Fi speeds and performance.
Ensure you have a standard master socket or a pre-filtered master socket installed, or get one fitted. Many properties, particularly older ones, may not have a standard master socket installed, limiting your options to improve broadband speed by fitting a faceplate to split the broadband signal from the phone signal at the master socket described below.
Avoiding this often substantially increases broadband speeds and makes a connection much more reliable. Many modern homes have had a pre-filtered master socket fitted, which splits the phone and broadband connection so an additional filtered faceplate as described below is not necessary. If you do not currently have either a standard master socket or pre-filtered master socket installed, we recommend having a pre-filtered master socket fitted.
Then, you can sit back and relax, safe in the knowledge that you have the cleanest broadband signal possible. If you have a standard master socket above , fit a filtered faceplate or, at the very least, ensure you use microfilters everywhere you should.
The filters faceplate fits on the NTE5 master socket, and ensures that your broadband signal is not carried around your house. In general, fitting a filtered faceplate can make a huge difference to speeds and reliability. It is important to note that telephone providers, such as BT, permit and, in fact, positively encourage users to fit a filtered faceplate.
A great advantage of fitting a filtered faceplate is that you do not need to install those horrible microfilters throughout your home. Locate your modem next to the master socket and connect it with a short modem cable. You should locate your modem next to the master socket and connect your modem to the master socket with a short modem cable.
It is very important that you avoid using long extension cables between the master socket and your modem for example, placing the modem in a different room. It is vital that you do not connect your modem to an extension socket; always, always connect your modem to the master socket. However, if you to choose to ignore this advice, then the result will be poorer speeds than you could have obtained. If you need to boost WiFi coverage in a particular room, use a separate Wi-Fi Access Point or, if you need to connect devices using Ethernet, use a cheap Ethernet switching box.
Just please do not sacrifice your broadband speeds unnecessarily by not following this advice. When you enter a domain name into your browser or click a particular link, it is necessary to first translate that name into a numerical IP address so that the contents of the website can be retrieved. In our guide, we show you have to pick the optimum DNS server settings for your broadband connection. Mitigate bufferbloat by implementing a quality of service mechanism on your router called Smart Queue Management.
Bufferbloat is one of the biggest issues facing broadband users today and those with high-speed connections are not immune. This is because critical small data packets that have to be transferred in a timely manner e. These delays wreak havoc with online games, make web browsing sluggish and severely degrade delay-sensitive applications such as video and audio telephony e. Skype and Zoom. For more information, read our comprehensive guide:.
If you are stuck with basic standard broadband, all is not lost and there is a powerful feature available on some modems to squeeze out the very highest speeds from your line. Only a small number of modems support this feature. Once you have invested in a modem that supports this capability, you can potentially increase your download speed by 1 Mbps or more if you are a significant distance from the exchange.
If you are closer to the exchange, your line may tolerate a lower SNR margin and you may achieve a speed uplift of several Mbps. Basic ADSL broadband — which was launched in the year , is now available to As standard broadband is delivered through telephone cables, speeds achievable fall rapidly with distance from the exchange so the highest speeds are only achieved for homes and businesses situated relatively close.
Some broadband users who are located in urban areas close to their exchange who are able to achieve download speeds at or near 24 Mbps may not yet be strongly motivated to upgrade to superfast and ultrafast services.
Consider upgrading your existing equipment such as your Wi-Fi router. The broadband speeds that you are experiencing may be significantly lower than you could achieve not because of your broadband connection but because of the equipment you are using. To find out whether you are secure, search for available wireless networks. If your network is secure there should be a picture of a padlock next to it.
If there isn't then you'll need to password-protect your router. Use a password that contains a mixture of numbers and upper and lower case letters. If you're not sure how to set or change a password, speak to your provider. Use an Ethernet cable to connect your computer directly to your router rather than using WiFi.
An Ethernet cable is a computer networking cable which should give you a faster, more reliable connection. Any interference on your phone line could slow your broadband down. Make sure your home has the most up-to-date main phone socket and plug microfilters into every phone socket in your home. They look like little white boxes and split the phone and broadband signals so that they don't affect each other.
Try not to use a telephone extension lead — leads can cause interference which could lower your speed. If you have to use an extension lead, use a new, high quality cable with the shortest possible length.
Tangled and coiled cables can also affect speeds. There are a number of devices available that are designed to filter out interference from your home phone wiring. These may improve speed and, even if they don't, can help stabilise your broadband line and make it more reliable.
Viruses and adware can also cause your computer to slow down considerably which can have the effect of making your broadband connection seem slow. Probably a no-brainer but also something that is easily overlooked; always make sure your broadband connection is password protected to keep freeloaders at bay!
The last thing you need is to have your speeds sapped by a neighbour hogging all of your bandwidth without your knowledge! Ah, the foolproof solution!
Interference generally happens when your signal is physically blocked by something or there are too many devices trying to run off the same channel.
Turning your broadband router off and on again causes the router to search for the best channel to reconnect your broadband to, hence why turning your router off and on again can often sort out speed issues. Very few routers actually show you which channels surround your house, so most people just leave the router to automatically pick a channel. However, if you have the right software on your device, you can walk around each room in your home to see what channels you can pick up and then you can manually pick a channel for the router.
It's a good idea to check this again once a month. If you're lucky enough to live in an urban area of Ireland you shouldn't have too many issues finding a broadband provider to cover your needs in terms of speed and coverage.
All of the major providers offer speeds of up to Mbps and some even go above and beyond. For instance Virgin Media offers speeds of up to Mbps as standard, with its top-level package now offering a whopping Mbps. Meanwhile SIRO, a joint venture between the ESB and Vodafone to bring pure fibre broadband with speeds of up to 1,Mbps to regional towns across the country, has now passed , households.
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