The information on this page has been provided by the Ministry of Education and provides details on how to check your internet connection.
For Home internet connectionsIf you are having performance or speed issues with the home wifi setup, the advice is to eliminate these first before assuming it's the connection from the house to the internet.
The advice is to do the following:
The advice is to do the following:
- Run a speed test by going to www.speedtest.net to establish a baseline, and repeat after making any of the changes suggested below to check for improvement.
- Power off the home router every morning, leave off for for 30 seconds before powering back on (don't press the reset button as this will reset the device settings)
- Place the router in the highest and most unobstructed possible position (not behind the TV and not close to the microwave oven etc)
- Turn off, or disable the wifi on unused devices where possible, especially older devices that run at slower wifi speeds.
- Decrease the physical distance between your device and the wifi router. Line of sight is always best.
- Use an Ethernet cable on devices where possible to reduce wifi load (especially smart TVs, gaming consoles) -plug these into a spare LAN port on your router.