I have recently had two rooms built in our attic and now our home is spread out over a wider area, the wifi on our router just wasn't cutting it. So I decided to cable as many things as I could (17) so bought a TP-link TL-SG1024DE switch and for the things I couldn't I bought two TP-link Deco S4's.
My router (Virgin Media Hub 3) is in modem mode, I have the main Deco S4 plugged into the single socket on the router that works and the network switch is plugged into to other Deco socket. Everything seems to work, I'm not getting double NAT anywhere.
When I download anything on my desktop PC, I regularly downloaded stuff before at 15-20 MB/s (Broadband speed is 500mbps) and other people could quite happily use the internet simultaneously but since changing the way the network is, anything I download is very unstable, it goes up to 5MB/s and then plummets to 65Kb/s and is up and down like a yo-yo. The internet then practically drops out on all other devices. I've tried port forwarding, but I am a total novice at this stuff and it is not working. I'm becoming so frustrated with it not working.
I have tried using portchecker.co and it seems that every port possible is closed.
Is there any help anybody can offer? I may well have done something wrong, but I have no idea what!
My router (Virgin Media Hub 3) is in modem mode, I have the main Deco S4 plugged into the single socket on the router that works and the network switch is plugged into to other Deco socket. Everything seems to work, I'm not getting double NAT anywhere.
When I download anything on my desktop PC, I regularly downloaded stuff before at 15-20 MB/s (Broadband speed is 500mbps) and other people could quite happily use the internet simultaneously but since changing the way the network is, anything I download is very unstable, it goes up to 5MB/s and then plummets to 65Kb/s and is up and down like a yo-yo. The internet then practically drops out on all other devices. I've tried port forwarding, but I am a total novice at this stuff and it is not working. I'm becoming so frustrated with it not working.
I have tried using portchecker.co and it seems that every port possible is closed.
Is there any help anybody can offer? I may well have done something wrong, but I have no idea what!