Is your line ADSL2+?
What kind of speeds to you get through your current router? Do you have 802.11n capability? Does your router have this?
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:32, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Stop bringing facts into this
I want Al to cry into his gaping £40 hole.
( djtrialprice, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:34, Reply)

I don't know?
How would I find that out? Virgin did something to my line a year or two back to make it faster, but I don't know what it was. Could that have been them doubling my ADSL?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:35, Reply)

Well, the fact you have Virgin answers the ADSL2+ question - nearly all ISPs
have this, just a few old decrepit ones don't.

Are you connecting via laptop or PC - your adaptor (built in or dongle) should give you an idea if you can get 802.11n. The Wifi Sticker will either be B/G or B/G/Draft-N or B/G/N.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:42, Reply)

It's B/G/N

( Kroney, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:44, Reply)

I'm connecting via a desktop and a couple of laptops
My laptop is about 5 years old.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:45, Reply)

Then your laptop probably doesn't have a wireless N card in it :)

( Kroney, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:46, Reply)

But, the part of me that likes to be a bit futureproof reckons that if I get a new laptop
I will be able to have my internet in my back garden.

Right?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:48, Reply)

Faster wireless doesn't necessarily mean greater range
that's down to how good the antennae is and how much electrical interference is between you and your internet-capable barbecue.
( Kroney, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:50, Reply)

I hate computers.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:52, Reply)

geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:36, Reply)

THIRTTTTTTTTTTY EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIGHHT

(Himjim died a little more inside on, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:43, Reply)

Ouch!!
You know your words hurt, right?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:50, Reply)