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Cougar377

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I'm not sure I'd qualify for this. I'm in my office, upstairs in the south wing, which is probably the worst place in the house and I've just clocked 18.2 download and 12.3 upload. Our bedroom in the north wing is equally as bad but that might improve once I rig the booster at that end up to a power line adaptor.

South wing, thick walks. Have you purchased Caernarfon castle?
 

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I think that's only for broadband to the premises.
Pow-Lo's problem is distributing it around the house.
Power line adapters are the neatest option, but good quality shielded cabling is the most reliable. It's the routing of it that's the faf.
The Sky tech that came here on Sunday said he could run internal cables but that would look plain messy. The phone line into the house downstairs looks bad enough and the last thing I want is more bodgeneering. If the power line adaptors are any good, I should get the same speeds in my office as those at the main router. Anything stable and about 25 to 30 meg will do.
South wing, thick walks. Have you purchased Caernarfon castle?
No, Southfork :p
 

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The Sky tech that came here on Sunday said he could run internal cables but that would look plain messy. The phone line into the house downstairs looks bad enough and the last thing I want is more bodgeneering. If the power line adaptors are any good, I should get the same speeds in my office as those at the main router. Anything stable and about 25 to 30 meg will do.

No, Southfork :p
Most folk route cables at ground level, I've put Cat 5 cabling in coving.
The other option is to buy external use cabling and route most of it outside the house.
 

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Most folk route cables at ground level, I've put Cat 5 cabling in coving.
The other option is to buy external use cabling and route most of it outside the house.
Ground level isn't a lot of use when I need it upstairs in my office.
Outside cabling isn't a route I want to go down either, I don't want the aesthetics of the house messed up by scruffy wires and cable trunks. As long as I get a stable solid, continuous signal, I'm good.
 

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Ground level isn't a lot of use when I need it upstairs in my office.
Outside cabling isn't a route I want to go down either, I don't want the aesthetics of the house messed up by scruffy wires and cable trunks. As long as I get a stable solid, continuous signal, I'm good.
Eh....coving is at ceiling level.... ya Welsh troglodyte.
 

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Eh....coving is at ceiling level.... ya Welsh troglodyte.
Messing about with coving is way too much hassle and I cannot be arsed with the faff. The adaptors allow plug and play, which makes my life easier.

Powerline adaptors have just arrived and the internet speeds on my Mac have gone from 24 and 15 to 48 and 15Meg. No improvement on upload but download almost doubled. I've plugged the router into another adaptor and WiFi seems to have boosted, too. I'll take that (y)
 

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Messing about with coving is way too much hassle and I cannot be arsed with the faff. The adaptors allow plug and play, which makes my life easier.

Powerline adaptors have just arrived and the internet speeds on my Mac have gone from 24 and 15 to 48 and 15Meg. No improvement on upload but download almost doubled. I've plugged the router into another adaptor and WiFi seems to have boosted, too. I'll take that (y)
I misunderstood the issue.

Anyway, going back to the point and totally ignoring that you have a solution, surely you can find somewhere to run a cable up from the ground floor to the attic and then drop down into the office.
 

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Messing about with coving is way too much hassle and I cannot be arsed with the faff. The adaptors allow plug and play, which makes my life easier.

Powerline adaptors have just arrived and the internet speeds on my Mac have gone from 24 and 15 to 48 and 15Meg. No improvement on upload but download almost doubled. I've plugged the router into another adaptor and WiFi seems to have boosted, too. I'll take that (y)
Power line adapters are a decent compromise and those speeds are pretty reasonable.
Which brand did you get...?

If you end up having to revert to Wifi then it's worth checking which wifi frequency your Mac is using.
Your router is likely to be dual frequency so it'll be capable of broadcasting on both 2.4ghz and 5ghz. The latest network adapters (whether integrated or USB) are now often set to default to 5Ghz, but the lower 2.4Ghz frequency is actually far better at penetrating thick walls than 5Ghz.
 

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Power line adapters are a decent compromise and those speeds are pretty reasonable.
Which brand did you get...?

If you end up having to revert to Wifi then it's worth checking which wifi frequency your Mac is using.
Your router is likely to be dual frequency so it'll be capable of broadcasting on both 2.4ghz and 5ghz. The latest network adapters (whether integrated or USB) are now often set to default to 5Ghz, but the lower 2.4Ghz frequency is actually far better at penetrating thick walls than 5Ghz.
These:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01G5Q9E0O/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'm hoping I won't have to go back to WiFi but my Apple Time Capsule and Airport Express extenders (I have two networks, Sky and Apple) are dual but it doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. I hooked up the middle Sky booster in the bedroom at the top of the stairs to an adaptor. The speed shave dropped but we now have full signal in our bedroom in the north wing, which is much better for us.
 

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I misunderstood the issue.

Anyway, going back to the point and totally ignoring that you have a solution, surely you can find somewhere to run a cable up from the ground floor to the attic and then drop down into the office.
Too much of a faff. The powerline adaptors were a five minute, hassle-free fix.
 
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