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Hi,

I keep getting stupid ping problems – whenever somone goes onto youtube or a flash game type website my ping goes to like 100. If however peopel in the house just do normal web browsing – my ping will be about 35.

Currently we have 20mb virgin broadband, but we have a wireless G router (I have a wireless N card in my PC not getting used to its full capability :( ). Annoyingly my brother doesn’t want to put any money towards a new router despite him having an XBOX. :/

Which leads me onto homeplugs. Will setting up a homeplug for my room be beneficial or will I still struggle still with my wireless G router? Have about £100 to spend.

Any advise appriciated!

Thanks!

I use homeplugs (I presume you’re talking about powerline?) to connect to a netgear router. My internet has never been smoother and there’s at least 6/7 devices and people connected wirelessly all the time. Using wireless is horrible on the same setup. However, I used to use the powerline adapters with a worse router (a billion one) and I still got some weird lag so unless you’re confident your router is decent in a wired setup then you could still have problems after getting a powerline adapter.