This is my first post here, so hello!
To start off, I have to say that I have a very awkward internet setup. To make sure we had WiFi throughout the house, we got a new router and attached the old router to it via a very long Ethernet cable.
What I usually do to connect to the internet is run another wire from this router to my computer and that allows me to have access.
This worked completely fine until I moved out to live at my uni, and when I came back and plugged my computer in the internet speed was very sluggish and dropped out a lot (Skype calls would not last a minute without it disconnecting).
I'm currently connected to it via a WiFi dongle which is okay for casual browsing but if I want to play games online then it can't keep up. When I go back to my accommodation I use a wired connection that works perfectly. I have tried using different wires on my router and it is still very bad, and I am currently connected wirelessly to the same router. My parents and brother have no internet issues and this is the only problem in the house with the internet.
We have a Sky Hub as our main router and then a cheap Netgear (I can get the exact model number if necessary) as the one I'm connecting to. Sky is our internet provider. I am on a Windows 7 computer. If you need any more info please let me know.
If there is any advice you can give it would be greatly appreciated since its so annoying getting disconnected so frequently and feeling like I can't do anything.
And thank you for reading.