Ofcom launches Wi-Fi checker app for Android and iOS

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Advises that Christmas Fairy Lights could interfere with your signal.

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[goldfinger247]

Doesn't most of the bog standard routers given out by ISP's are not great.

[Vorlon99]

Also how many devices the router supports and how many (wifi devices) you are trying to use on it might differ greatly.
Most routers supplied by the isps can cope with 4 or 5 devices, and your family might be trying to use way more... phones, tablets, laptops, TV's, consoles, NAS/Media drives etc
But i appreciate what they are trying to say, and it is better to know than not know.

[LSG501]

don't forget distance from router can also have an impact on speeds too, as can the device it's connecting to. There are a huge number of variables with wifi.

I just love that they basically say if youre connection is rubbish you can always plug in a cable...kind of defeats the point of wireless but as we all know a wired network is really the only way to guarantee the connection speed.

[Ttaskmaster]

'Completely Rubbish And Pathetic' ().

My WiFi is bad, because my Broadband is bad, because I live in the country and BT are the only ones who supply here.
Plugging it directly into the router will improve my speed by a *STAGGERING*..... 0.0004Mbps. Literally, the increase is so minute that it doesn't show up on test results.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Crap.

My WiFi is bad, because my Broadband is bad, because I live in the country and BT are the only ones who supply here.
Plugging it directly into the router will improve my speed by a *STAGGERING*..... 0.0004Mbps. Literally, the increase is so minute that it doesn't show up on test results.

Use 4g

[Ttaskmaster]

Use 4g

You don't even wanna know how bad that one is out here!!

[sonyman]

Crap.

My WiFi is bad, because my Broadband is bad, because I live in the country and BT are the only ones who supply here.
Plugging it directly into the router will improve my speed by a *STAGGERING*..... 0.0004Mbps. Literally, the increase is so minute that it doesn't show up on test results.

Use 4g

Im guessing if BT is the only provider for him then he lives in a small town or rural part which means 4G will also be rubbish and non existent too

[Ttaskmaster]

Im guessing if BT is the only provider for him then he lives in a small town or rural part which means 4G will also be rubbish and non existent too

He lives a couple miles South of the M4 right by Reading... and yet his friends hate coming over because they get ZERO signal on their fancy 4G phones!!

I average 0.5Mbps line speed, but should expect up to 2. I can get up to 4Mb download and 0.16 upload I think, but only on a good day.

One of many drawbacks in not having to live around town people....

[Plasmastorm]

Fig 3 "Your wifi may be slowing down your broadband"

Utter tosh, it's not slowing down your broadband, you just don't have a decent connection to your broadband....

[probedb]

'Completely Rubbish And Pathetic' ().

My WiFi is bad, because my Broadband is bad, because I live in the country and BT are the only ones who supply here.
Plugging it directly into the router will improve my speed by a *STAGGERING*..... 0.0004Mbps. Literally, the increase is so minute that it doesn't show up on test results.

So technically your wifi isn't bad. Your wifi will be good, you've just got nothing to push through it.

[Ttaskmaster]

So technically your wifi isn't bad. Your wifi will be good, you've just got nothing to push through it.

Yeah, summat like that... basically they don't gimme fast enough electrickery-magicky-internet out here in Anglo-Saxon-land... and it makes Odin angry!!