Does Vodafone Provide Good WiFi Signal in Every Room?

[StuartRoberts40]

Bear with me here...

I know the difference between guaranteed speed coming into the home and actual speed available over Wifi, depending on signal BUT...

What is the WiFi strength like from the Vodafone router compared with others?

We are moving from Virgin Media broadband and considering Vodafone instead. The salesperson we spoke to today was trying to tell us that the Vodafone hub/ router provides equal WiFi signal throughout the home, in every room without the need for extenders. WOW! Our latest VM Hub 3 cannot get it past the next room.

What can Vodafone do that Virgin Media cannot?

I find it difficult to believe that the WiFi will be just as good upstairs, downstairs and everywhere else, when there are people on here asking about range extenders and home plugs, who are already on Vodafone broadband. Did we just get a complete nob of a sales person, or can we expect such an improvement with Vodafone?

I am thinking we need to call back and hope to get through to someone else who knows what they are talking about. Otherwise, we may as well stay with VM if we can negotiate our way out of the price increase this month.

Thanks all,

Stuart

[Jayach]

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@StuartRoberts40 wrote:
Did we just get a complete nob of a sales person, or can we expect such an improvement with Vodafone?

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No you just got a salesman, they will always tell you what you want to hear.

Swapping broadband supplier to get better WiFi is probably not a good idea as, like with everything, people will have different opinions. There are much better ways of improving WiFi if that is what you want.

Personally I find the Vodafone router (THG3000) O.K. for WiFi but the 5Ghz is much better than the 2.4GHz (in my experience).

I will say, from this forum, that people switching from Virgin to Vodafone seem to have a few problems. Don't know if that is the same if you swap to other ISP's

[StuartRoberts40]

Thank you.

Just as I suspected.

We're only looking to save money. I think vm is quite good. 

[clint_flick]

Hi

Dunno.

I left VM because they offered their best deal to retain me as £5 more than I was currently paying.

So 2 years with VM would have been circa £820, VFone currently £550 (less a voucher @ tesco) {£500}

So the difference will buy you assorted range extenders.  

The actual Wi-Fi does work very well for me, much like when I was with VM, so I cannot tell you all is well with VodaFone, but I do get peace of mind.

So first if you can run your trial of the speed and see if Openreach can match claims made by VF sales.

Also test against this https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/home1/    

You are connected to cabinet XX. Your line length (from the exchange) is approximately 3454 meters.

G.Fast broadband up to 160Mbps

G.Fast is available with an estimated downstream speed of 265.3 to 330Mbps. For the time being, we limiting G.Fast speeds to a maximum of 160Mbps. 

"Superfast" VDSL (Fibre to the cabinet) up to 80Mb/s

VDSL uses the phone line copper pair to connect to a modem in the street cabinet and then typically glass fibre to connect back to the exchange and on to us. As this uses less copper wire it provides faster download speeds than ADSL, but costs a little more. For your location, forecast download sync speed is 74-80Mb/s and forecast upload sync speed is 19-20Mb/s.

An 80/20 line can degrade and reduce to zer0, the infrastructure is nowhere near as resilient as VM IMHO.

So just ignore most of my post.

[StuartRoberts40]

Thanks Clint_Flick,

Really appreciate your feedback.

Useful answer.

Thanks

[clint_flick]

Prego.

One significant difference is that VM will attempt fault repairs themselves, and mostly never charge for it, Openreach etc do sometimes raise an engineers visit invoice regardless of fault.