Finally my cab got upgraded to Fibre so moved over to BT Infinity 1. Homehub is in the lounge where my BT master socket is. Wired directly to one of its LAN ports or upstairs wired via homeplugs I get the full 38Mb down / 9Mb up. But via Wifi I get about 25/26Mb down at max on both iPhone 6 and iPad air sat right next to the Homehub 5. I have tried all the usual options like running just 2.4 or 5ghz frequencies on their own, manually selecting channels etc and no difference.

Not the biggest issue in the world as loving the 10ms latency and I don’t push much via phone and tablet. Just now I’ve noticed it I am curious to see if there is a fix.

Anyone else had similar with BT / HH5 and manage to get it working?

Cheers
Simon

 

You'll never get the full speed with wifi. I don't know why, I'm sure someone knowledgeable will explain.

I get about 65mb down and 17mb up on my phones/iPads and almost the full 78/20mb via ethernet on my computers.

 

I understand that but your Infinity 2 65Mb from 76Mb is 85.5% which is the sort of % I would expect. My Infinity 1 is getting about 20Mb from 38Mb is 52.6% so a big difference.

 

Fair point. I don't rate the Hub 4 or 5 at all. The range and speed compared to the 3 are pretty poor. I've tried manually setting the channel, disabling 2.4ghz and so on but I believe that they reserve some wifi bandwidth for the BT Wifi service for the public. It don't see how to disable it in the router itself. I think you can if you opt out of being able to use BT Wifi when you're out and about.

 

Waa waa waah I get less than 1MB

 

I use to be where you are, i was getting 2.9mb was my best speed, most of the time between 1-2. Couldn't even stream HD programmes. Now i'm on 74mb can steam what i like, only problem i've noticed, is internet browsing seems the same no faster. Plus online gaming still laggy.

 

I could be getting 20mbs within the next 6 months, hopefully. There's a shiny new green fibre box in the local village to me where I'm connected but it's not up and running yet. I'll still be on copper cables but at least it will be fibre to the box.

 

Same here thats how i got mine a green box appeared. But took about 4 months after to get broadband. You should easy get upto 74mb or 38mb depending on how much you want to pay, i'd go for lower.

 

That sounds promising!

 

Tbh web browsing needs very little bandwidth unless you are viewing large photos etc. The speed is probably more related to your own devices processing / graphical power and that of the remote server.

Gaming wise your latency (ping) should be better on Fibre. Mine dropped from low to mid 20ms on Sky ADSL2+ to 10ms on BT Fibre (which is still DSL but a faster version VDSL). Again it still depends on what servers you are playing on – if you can pick UK or European servers to play on and always play via a wired connection rather than over wifi. I play BF4 on PS4 and the difference playing on a low latency server is night and day.