FTTP upgrade

[Mark5000]

Hi, I currently have BT broadband with 70Mbps FTTC.  Thinking of upgrading to 900Mbps FTTP with EE. At the moment my hub is in an upstairs room and I have two PCs wired direct. WiFi has always seemed pretty solid throughout the house. With FTTP I think the router is going to have to be positioned downstairs and the two PCs upstairs will have to be connected either by WiFi or homeplug / power lines (at the moment the TV etc are all connected by homeplug to the router upstairs and work fine).

What I'm wondering is whether speed will be better on the PCs upstairs even though connected by WiFi than they currently are wired, given the faster connection with FTTP and assuming solid WiFi connection etc?

In summary I suppose I'm asking if WiFi on a 900Mbps FTTP broadband will be better (speed terms) thanks wired on 70Mbps connection. Seems like it should be assuming no problems with WiFi?

[XRaySpeX]

It should be faster over WiFi given that your BB will be over 10 x faster than before. You should see speeds of over 300 Meg at least.

Is the router upstairs currently connected to a phone socket nearby it? If so, is there no way you can persuade OR eng. to follow the same cabling route to the ONT modem to be installed?

[Mark5000]

Thanks for that.  Yes phone socket is upstairs, with a phone cable that goes under some wooden flooring and up the stairs under carpet.  From what I've been reading they tend to prefer to put the ONT at ground floor.   And I'd rather not disturb the flooring that is down or run ethernet cable up th stairs

At the moment WiFi is pretty decent throughout the house (4 bed detached but not huge).  I get near the max 70MBPS measured from the PC connected direct to the router and pretty much the same on my phone anywhere on the house.  

So sounds like I should get a big boost by just going wireless anyway?

[XRaySpeX]

Is that phone socket upstairs an extension socket & the master socket is downstairs? If so, it would be well neigh impossible to follow the route as I was only thinking of following the route to a master socket.

[Mark5000]

It's a good question.  I think it is the master socket.  Although originally it was running from anorhwr socket near the front door although that socket is now gone and the phone line spliced / runs straight through to the upstairs socket.  Anyway it is the socket that BT connected my FTTC to though some 10 years ago so its the only socket now and th e one with the router connection so think is must be master!

[JimM11]

@Mark5000 Is it the BT Smarthub2 that you are using, does the phone not show you what the sync speed is to the router at your furthest distant point, that will give you some idea what to expect as a wireless when it all swaps positions. If you need to you can always get a wireless booster or depending on your powerline extra adapter with a couple off ethernet ports on it.

[Mark5000]

Thanks, yes it is the BT Hub 2.  Not sure about sync speed.  But sat in the lounge where I think the router would have to be moved to (router currently upstairs), my phone shows 74Mb speed to the hub, and 74Mb to my phone.

[JimM11]

@Mark5000 So that is going to be the minimum and anything above is a plus so to say. Added a couple off pictures showing the Tx and RX on an android phone, gives you the idea.

[Sofaslug]

Hi

Top tip. Try BT 900 first.

I had this with very few issues on FTTP.

Since moving to EE 1.6gbpz using their new hub. Have had significant wifi calling issues. Many of my wifi speakers have eventually connection issues.

I dont believe EE new hub is quite there, they rushed the device out without proper testing, and now have problems.