Catching up, and where have all those days gone, again?

Looking back on this blog I can see that I have not kept to my attempt to write at least once a week.

Let’s hope I can do better over the coming weeks!

I left off with a post about changing over from BT’s FTTC to Vodafone’s FFTP broadband. After nearly eight months, how is that going?

Pretty good I have to report, if you’re connected directly to the Fibre Hub/Router by cable from my desktop PC, averaging over 900mb download speed with very good upload speeds. (See image below)

However, the download speeds via Wi-Fi have not lived up to expectations. Yes, if you’re close to the Vodafone Wi-Fi router, then you can get nearly 300/350 Mb download speeds. But if you start to move away from the there is quite a quick drop-off in attainable speeds. This for me points to a very low power Wi-Fi transmitter in the Vodafone Wi-Fi Hub.

I have seen this mentioned in a few online chats as well. Have also mentioned this to Vodafone, but so far no feedback from them.

Now investigating an alternate Wi-Fi router to use in conjunction with the Vodafone Hub.

More to follow …