Hardwire the Xbox, PS5, PC & TV. No more lagging. Across Nottingham

The job

Where the socket goes

• Kids’ bedrooms. The PS5 is upstairs and the WiFi up there is one bar. A socket in each bedroom, and a matching plate by the router labelled by hand so nobody argues over whose port it is. The GIRLS and BOYS plate in the photos is the router end of two of these.
• The home office that doubles as the games room. Work laptop on calls by day, PC by night. One double faceplate covers both. One customer’s calls and gaming were both laggy upstairs until the socket went in. His words afterwards were “lightning quick”.
• The living room TV. Smart TV, Sky Glass, Sky Stream or a Fire TV Stick. Most have the port built in. The Stick needs a small adapter on its power lead.
• Garages and garden bars. The cable run across the garden is on the garden office cabling page. The socket end is the same as indoors.

What I do on the day

I fit the socket behind the TV unit or next to the desk and run the cable back to your router the tidy way. Virgin Media Hub or Openreach master socket, I work from both. Outside on the brickwork, clipped along the mortar line, under the floor, or up through the loft, whichever route shows least.

If there’s more than one device in the room, a small switch behind the unit gives you four or eight ports off the one socket. There’s one on the floor in the photos, spare leads bagged for later.

Before the console goes back, I put the tester on every port, then plug in your own kit to prove it. The label goes on the faceplate and the dust sheet comes up with the mess in it.

Two real ones

One family had put up with slow internet for nearly two years and a string of engineers scratching their heads. I ran cable and hardwired every PC and Xbox in the house. The review says the only regret was not calling eighteen months earlier.

Another customer had me route a cable to her office for work and gaming. Great speeds and no drops, in her words. Then a new puppy chewed through it. She got in touch, I fitted her in the next day and re-routed the cable where the puppy can’t reach. Both are on the reviews page, word for word.

Why a cable beats WiFi for this

WiFi is fine for phones. For a PS5 in a ranked match, a work PC on a video call, or a telly streaming 4K, a cable is the fix. No lag spike when someone upstairs starts a download, no buffering wheel twenty minutes into the film. If the WiFi in the rest of the house is the problem, that’s a different job, and it’s on the WiFi problems page. If the TV is going on the wall at the same time, I put the socket behind it, see TV wall mounting.

What it costs

No price list, because the cost depends on how far the cable runs, how awkward the route is and how many devices you want on it. Send a photo of where the router is and one of where the console or TV sits and I’ll come back with a figure or arrange to look. Nothing starts until you’ve agreed a number. How pricing works.