I have Virgin media broadband and the standard supplied router/Wifi box. Wifi is good downstairs but poor upstairs. What is the best way to either boost it upstairs or create a secondary network from the Ethernet socket upstairs?

Improving wife signal in house

Just ask her to shout…

become a mormon and have 2 wives?

Most people are looking to degrade the signal.

Improving wife signal in house

ask her to stand on the roof with an ariel, a bit like Rod Hull, just ensure life insurance is up to date……

“good downstairs but poor upstairs”

BOBFOC?

Thread title typo of the week! 😀

Problems with Virgin wife signal?

I reckon you’ve got a duff unit there.

Flowers, that always works. Say sorry then do something really wrong…

Hmm, clever phone keyboard makes untrue assumption! There is no wife.

I had corrected that twice in the post but missed the title.

Think I had better start again, I suspect it is going no where helpful 🙂

There is no wife.

Maybe there is, just a bad signal.

Brilliant

Secondary wife networks aren’t the easiest systems to manage. You’ll probably have no luck in either socket once you’ve got a conflict.

Wifes always give off poor signals.

is there a problem with your dongle?

Problems with Virgin wife signal?

No Virgin here – ended up with bl00dy TalkTalk.

Advised to ‘turn off and on again’ – first part was easy………

Are you putting it in the right port?

And when you get the right port you might just need to wiggle it about a bit.

Are you sure your wife is backwards compatible?

Buy her a more powerful router?

Are you getting interference from next doors signal?

Flash the (not so) firmware with a younger more up to date version.

She’s probably running too many background tasks and so communication processes can’t get any cpu time. Scan her for infections, common resource consuming malware includes Shoes, Decore, Gossip, Fad Diets and worst one of all – Frumpiness. If its frumpiness I’d just bin her and get a new one.

Tbh I’ve heard that looking at the wrong sort of websites can result in speed (or indeed any kind of action) being much reduced

I had two wife networks once, but I got cross talk and it all got very messy. Cost me my house, car and all my savings to sort it out, but I ended up homeless without any Wife.

Never again….

is she secure? teenage lad next doors non stop activities caused a problem in our house

Thread of the Year , Class !

Signal to noise ratio can be very poor IMHE.

try mounting the wife router in different locations around the house, it improved our signals no end when we did that

Mines always encrypted, lucky if I can get a clear signal any day! 😀

My wife network never liked being mounted upside down. Apparently I needed a different model….

Sky+ helped with my wife network problems. It seems much more stable and communicative in the evening now. Can only assume it drops out a lot more whilst I’m at work.

You could try a WIFE repeater, not something I would like though.

I’d get an engineer in to give her the once over.

Still performing well in the kitchen but the bedroom is more intermittent than it used to be. Still have never got close to the back passage ect, ect, ect.

RIP Sid James

I’d get an engineer in to give her the once over.

Don’t think it even has to be a qualified engineer, I’ve heard plumbers, postmen, even the milkman can perform quite extensive servicing, at regular interval for years.

You need a signal booster

What about trying your neighbours wife?

“Thy shalt not poach thy neighbour’s unsecured Wife”