Currently, have the Series X in the living room, hooked up to the tv and with wired internet connection.
Circumstances have changed so now have the box room upstairs that now being turned to a home office.
Ideally would like the Series X up there as well, but at the moment the monitor I have does nothing according to the diagnostic thing on the Series X....its basic minimum.
Also the web connection up there would need to be wireless.
My questions are, for around a £300 max budget, and minimum 27", what would be the best monitors suited to the Series X...........and, is there anything I can plug in on the upstairs landing to help boost the signal for the internet which will be wireless for the X?
@Borvad Can't comment on the Monitor, but have you considered a power line adaptor for the internet connection? Much better than wireless if you haven't got great WiFi upstairs.
@Borvad No need for long cable runs. You get a pair of adaptors that plug into regular wall socket and uses your electrical wiring to send the comms signal between the adaptors.
One Ethernet cable runs from Router to the first adaptor and a second Ethernet cable from the second adaptor to console/PC/whatever needs the wired connection. You can also get them with a pass-through socket so you're not 'wasting' a socket having the adaptor plugged in.
I've used one on my Desktop PC upstairs for years as it doesn't have a WiFi adaptor.
Easily picked up in any place that sells electrical stuff - Amazon, Argos, Currys etc - I've even seen them in the small electrical section of my local Supermarket.
@Borvad I've had mixed results with the power line adapter to be honest. It's good for light use and to extend WiFi but I've found it to be noticeably slower for a wired connection. I was getting something like 13mpbs when my connection is normally like 30-60mpbs. Could just be that there is too much interference running through my power lines in particular. Mine only lasted a few years before they just stopped working, they were BT homespot ones for reference.
I just bit the bullet in the end and run a 20 meter ethernet across the house. There is various ways you can tidy/hide it. You can use the little white clips from B and Q that have a single nail in to tie it against the skirting board. B&Q also do something called D-Line trunking which is a really unnoticeable rounded trunking that hides the cable. If you stick that above the skirting board then it will just look like it's a part of the skirting board itself. I had to nick a hole in part of the door frame of the room where my router is to pass the cable through though. So I'm using the clips and a bit of d-line in more obvious areas to hide my extra long network lead!
As for monitor, I've not got much idea. I use an Eizo 4K monitor but 4K is about all it will do. Like you, my Xbox just says no to all the bells and whistles like HDR etc. unfortunately
Current set are Tenda brand which I've had for about a year - no issues with speed at all with these. Previous set I used for many years and were TP-Link I think. I only replaced them because I was running out of sockets and the Tenda had AC Pass-Though. I've only ever had issues with speed when plugging them into some extension blocks rather than directly into the wall - I'm sure the manual advises against this anyway. Likely because of filters/surge protection in the extension messing with the signal.
Running a cable would've been possible, but not really practical in my case - opposite ends of the house and on a different floor would've meant either a ridiculous run of cable going around multiple doors/upstairs or going into the walls and up into the loft. I'm also a bit of a neat-freak when it comes to cables so that length of cable clipped to the skirting would've given me the heebie-jeebies
@Borvad I had a similar issue with the WIFI at my condo it has three stories and the cable comes in at the bottom what I did for 99 us dollars was buy the google home WIFI it came with three units and it covered the house nicely worked like a dream was consistently getting 100 download speeds at the xbox before we bought a house with no stairs so my grandfather could live with us. I'm sure you can order it from amazon looks like the price has gone up a little bit.
If you do go that route dont buy the one with the nest unless you want the nest I guess. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Google-Wifi-System-works-coverage/dp... that's an amazon link to it that I found for the uk I dont know how much that price it is listed is to you but I cant say enough good things about the system it takes 10 minutes or less to setup and uses the cell phone to control it. one of my favorite features is it lets you setup a guest account wifi that people who come to the house can use but not have access to all your stuff.
Monitors i found this one https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-32un500-w-4k-uhd-monitor I dont know if you can still get it but if you go to lg's website you van put in the specifics for a search by price and features and it will show you what they have. anyhow hope this helps I would be interested in seeing your solution.
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