It's not the case that the vast majority of homes which don't have lightstream is East Hull. There is no lightstream in North Hull, Sutton Park and Bransholme being the largest areas which do not currently have it, which I find amazing when they deliver already to Woodmansy!
Nope, made my mind up and ordered the gear! I've done aerial, satellite cables etc into kids bedrooms several times, so fairly confident (and am on leave at the moment). I have ordered cable with 'plugs' on but also separate plug and crimpers, so undecided whether to snip the plug off first.
If you're going to crimp your own cables you must get a cable tester. https://www.amazon.co.uk/ETHERNET-NETWORK-CAT5E-CABLE-TESTER/dp/B007CJUEDA
You could always run a spur from your main ring to your conservatory. A hidden extension lead if you will.
Just an update, have successfully run the 20m cable externally. Now getting 60mbs, as opposed to 11 just prior. Kodi's sports channels are working as they never has. Cheers for the advice fellas. Well worth a couple of hour job.
I am guessing that is with a 2.4ghz wireless router at the end of the ethernet run? If you ever fancy another speed boost, putting a 5ghz wireless router and sorting your laptops 5ghz out (maybe with an additional usb 5ghz wireless adapter) would give you a very strong chance of getting that 250mbps in your conservatory
Seriously? So capable of nearly 250mps by wifi then?The router is 5ghz, so have it on some devices (phone and kodi now) but not getting it on laptop. Seems the Intel wireless 7265 driver (?) I have is capable of delivering on 5ghz, but can lose this when upgrading to windows 10. I could apparently reinstall the same driver. I'm just not very confident nw it's all working!
Are you definitely on 250Mbps? I'm probably stating the obvious but there's different packages and it could be that 50Mbps or 75Mbps is the package you're on.
Its certainly achievable, I'm with Virgin media and never get less than 250mbps via wifi anywhere in the house, router is in the front bedroom and I get same speed sat on the deck in my back garden.
The router is Virgin's Superhub 2 from Netgear - which means bugger all to me apart from I get real quick t'internet anywhere in the house. Some blurb for you from a review site ... Virgin Media Super Hub 2 review Virgin Media has launched a new combined cable modem and router, the 'new' Super Hub or Super Hub 2 as we're calling it. The big draw here is the addition of simultaneous 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi, so you can use one for general compatibility and reserve the other for high-importance and -bandwidth jobs such as streaming HD video. There are five internal aerials, two for 2.4GHz and three for 5GHz. This gives the latter a theoretical 450Mbit/s maximum transfer speed.
Guess you get 250 via wifi because you have a router capable of 450 mbps. Means bugger all to me really, I've read a couple of articles and I suddenly think I'm Bill Gates
If you're getting 250Mbps wired you can definitely get it wireless too. What bashdabish said is the way to get it.
