Broadband Internet & ISP Recommendations?

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Stonehedge in reply to @Soul

Strength seems weak even on the same floor. I'm 12 meters and one room (and a hallway) away from the main access point and i'm getting 70Mbps. The main router is testing at 360Mbps

I'm not sure that link speed is associated with signal quality. I think Google vary the link speed according to what resources your device is requesting. I used to be disconcerted with reported link speeds until I noticed them bounce up when I was transferring data. Typically, my PC which is only about 5m from the nearest AP will have a link speed of about 150Mbps but then jump to 500Mbps when I'm moving files.

Other than that, with our 3 Google Wifi setup, I have never encountered any of those other issues.

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Soul in reply to @Stonehedge

I don't see any increase in performance when stepping away from speed test sites. Downloading from dropbox etc results in the same download speed.

The above comes across more negatively than it probably should as I've been happy with the setup overall. I guess I'm just a little annoyed that I'm paying for 380Mbps, getting it at the router and not seeing it outside of that room.

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Stonehedge in reply to @Soul

Yeah, that doesn't sound right at all and I totally empathise with your irritation over the speeds you're getting. We've got 1gb coming in soon (we only get 25Mbps at the mo) and I'll be damned if I'd settle for that!

Is it all devices that struggle with speed when 12m away from an AP?

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