GADGET GURU

Q TREVOR BERRY, PORTSMOUTH

Will a new router speed up my internet connection?

It’s often not the connection but the connection to the connection which causes conniption when it comes to internet speeds. You could have a data pipe the size of the London super sewer going in and out of your home, but without a solid link between your devices and the router, your digital effluence might still squirt through at a snail’s pace. So before you rush out and spend £200 on a router, or break the bank even further on a mesh setup, consider fiddling with your present router and repositioning it so that its wireless juice isn’t being splattered away from your devices by walls,