However, Virgin Media says it will supply powerline wireless adapters for use in Wi-Fi black spots.
Users may be disappointed that the company isn’t introducing a mesh Wi-Fi product along the lines of BT’s Complete Wi-Fi, which improves connectivity and signal strength by adding extra hardware repeater “nodes” around the house. The final improvement Virgin Media is making is the addition of Airtime Fairness, a technology that aims to improve the share of bandwidth allocated to connected devices across the network so that slower devices don’t monopolise and slow down the connectivity of faster devices. Again, it’s not a new technology, merely one that ought to have been implemented when the router was first released. In Virgin Media’s tests, this boosted the number of devices connecting automatically to the 5GHz frequency band by 25%. to boost the Wifi in there as well - connect one of these to a Hub port on the ethernet cable and then connect the Xbox either on wifi or by a short ethernet cable to its LAN port.
It proactively and “seamlessly” moves connected devices onto the router’s faster – and typically less-congested – 5GHz frequency band, where appropriate. The second improvement is called 'band steering' and it’s all about making better use of the dual-band technology that most routers and devices now support. This isn’t a new technology – it’s been employed in BT’s routers for a few years now – but should ensure more efficient use of the existing wireless spectrum. The first improvement is Wi-Fi channel optimisation, whereby the router monitors the airwaves for interference every 15 minutes, switching the channel the network is being broadcast on if necessary. Our reviewer said it was “slow and lacking in features” and that it “proved a poor performer all-round” in testing so anything the company can do to mitigate that would be welcome. The news will likely come as welcome relief to users of the company’s standard-issue Wi-Fi router, which didn’t perform well in our review last year. Best broadband deals 2022: Huge savings on plans from all the top UK internet service providers this September
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