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With more and more games requiring an Xbox Live Gold subscription like Fortnite for example, a slow internet connection can really affect your game performance. In this video I’m going to demonstrate how to check the internet speed coming into your Xbox and also some things you can do to hopefully improve the data speeds or get a better WiFi connection.

At a minimum your Xbox is probably going to be connected to your cable WiFi router. But there are some other devices you can use to perhaps get a better connection. None of them are guaranteed to get you the fastest speed except for one… and that’s using a wired ethernet connection directly into your Xbox from the router. This is the ideal way to connect your Xbox to the internet but if you’re like me, your router is not even close to your Xbox console.

In my demonstration, the speed I got from a 100 up 100 down FIOS connection was quite amazing and I get pretty close to the maximum data rates for my internet plan. But a wired internet connection isn’t an option for me and probably not for you either. So Wifi is the most common way to connect on the Xbox. On my Xbox with WiFi I get 46Mbps down and 34Mbps up. That’s about half of what I should be able to get considering my 100/100 plan.

But with WiFi, I have another option. My router has a 2.4GHz signal as well as a faster 5GHz signal. It’s easy to change the connection on the Xbox to 5G and it usually has the same password as the 2.4GHz connection except this connection will have the letters 5G at the end of the router name. When I check the speeds on 5G I get 82Mbps megs down and 66Mbps. This is way higher than the 2.4GHz connection. The only con about using 5G is that signal strength suffers but most of the time that will not affect your gaming.

However if your signal strength and speed is really bad where your Xbox is located, you can use a WiFi extender or repeater. A repeater or booster will take the signal from your existing router and rebroadcast it in another part of your house. I have mine set up as a repeater which has 2.4 and 5GHz capability. During my tests I was consistently getting only about 8Mbps download and almost 2 Mbps up. This is really bad even though I have 100 percent signal strength from the repeater. So in my house, this device definitely isn’t going to work for me. But this repeater has another option which I can use with an ethernet cable. It’s still going to be using the WiFi signal from the main router but I can connect this repeater to the back of the Xbox with an ethernet cable.

Using this method, is better than using the wireless option on the repeater with 26Mbps down and 8Mbps up. It’s not bad and it might be an option if you want a stable connection for surfing the web or streaming a movie.

The last option is using an ethernet powerline adapter. This device uses your existing electrical wiring to spread wired internet through the house without having to run ethernet cable through the walls. It’s inexpensive and could be a great option for your home. In my test, the powerline adapter is plugged into the wall about 3 feet from my Xbox. And the results from the test are very promising with 65Mbps down and 84Mbps up. It’s not as good as a direct connection to the main router but it’s almost as good as 5G wireless at least in my house.

As a disclaimer when using any of these internet connection options, results will be different in every house depending on age and condition of the in-wall electrical wiring in your home, the distance of your device from your router, the distance from the repeater and whether you have any solid obstacles between your router and devices. So if you’re having internet speed or connectivity issues on your Xbox it’s worth looking into one of these alternatives I’ve shown in my video.

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