I have sky broadband for several years and it has served me well. Then I got a new TV sky plus box which connects to the internet. With the kids having all wifi devices such as iPads and iPhones and mine of course Lu’s my desktop and the other halls laptop it groans at times!

Sometimes cannot connect with some devices so re boot the modem which solves the problem for a while. Having to do this more and more, is the modem failing? Or is to do with bandwidth and there’s just too many things fighting for wifi network?

Modern is quite old, is this a factor?

Thinking of switching to another provider, will this help?

Please help

Comments please

One thing I find makes things a bit more stable is to reserve a specific IP address for each device that commonly uses the network.

You can usually do this in the router settings page somewhere.
You might also be able to increase the length of DHCP leases in there too.

Doing this eliminates DHCP issues which are a common source of problems.

Has the nice side effect that it makes reading router logs much easier, as you know that, for example, the IP address 192.168.0.11 is always number one son’s iPad.

(also makes it much easier to track what they are doing too!)

This is completely a hardware issue. Changing provider will made no difference, unless they supply a better router.

They were giving out new routers on demand a little while back.

Ok so ring and demand a new router then. It is over 5 years old!