Evening all,
Had FTTP fitted yesterday and have finally switched my existing BT whole home wifi mesh system across. Well, all I had to do was unplug the Ethernet cable from my virgin modem and into one of the free ports on the Power Hub.
For context, when I had the mesh system plugged into my Virgin modem I had 0 issues with the WiFi speed. I was able to benefit from the extended coverage with the ability to get near enough line speed in all the areas I needed it. The kit itself is capable of 1gb/s, which I did randomly see on the Virgin line.
Alas, having plugged the BT whole home kit into my Power Hub I’m seeing a discrepancy of around 2-300mb/s. If I connect to the Power Hub, I consistently get speeds of 550-600mb/s. If I switch across to the mesh network, I get around 290mb/s but sometimes it struggles to break past 100mb/s. The Power Hub is one floor beneath me whereas the nearest mesh module is literally 2 metres away from me. I have also run similar speed tests on another device with similar results.
I have tried turning the WiFi network off on the Power Hub which made no difference.
Has anyone experienced similar issues and overcome them? Or am I best changing the mesh to a different system?
Appreciate the go to response may be to blame the BT mesh kit but given the variable here which is causing the issue is the Power Hub, it’s fair to say it is likely the Vodafone equipment which needs optimising. There doesn’t seem to be any meaningful settings to adjust on the BT kit either.
Many thanks,
BE24.
