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Fast line, still buffering
A speed test reports the biggest number your line can produce for a few seconds with nothing else running.
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What decides the speed you get at home, why the signal drops in one room, and what the line between your flat and the exchange really looks like.
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Is Wi-Fi 7 worth it
Wi-Fi 7 is the current generation of home wireless, and its headline gains — wider channels, the 6 GHz band, and the ability to use two bands at once…
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Mesh or a Wi-Fi extender
One weak room and a tight budget point to an extender. Several weak rooms, or a weak room where the speed also collapses, point to a mesh system…
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Moving home with your internet
Moving the broadband is one of the few tasks in a house move with a fixed lead time, and it rarely matches the day the van arrives.
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What the router lights mean
The row of lights on a router is a status display, not decoration. Vendors differ in the details, but the categories are the same everywhere…
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Why streaming slows in the evening
Between roughly seven and eleven in the evening, everyone in the neighbourhood is online at once.