For the past few weeks my father in-law had raised issues that wifi connectivity was struggling with his HiMedia H8 Octacore .

I finally got around to looking at it on Saturday, and noticed that DL speed in kodi/chrome/google play is extremely slow even when in the settings it said my connection is 35mbps. It also occasionally disconnected from wifi, even though other devices (phone) has constant connectivity. Then plugged it into the ethernet cable, and noticed speeds were blazing fast and everything worked fine.

I took the box home and tried it on my wifi which connected at 62.5mbps, and still had slow speeds/connectivity issues. In response, I upgraded the firmware to 1.1.1. Still to no avail the wifi issues continued. I then upgraded to 1.1.2 found on the HiMedia site , which supposedly addresses wifi issues. Still the problem persist.

At this point I believe it a hardware issue, as both firmwares and changes in wifi did not address the issue. I have a couple questions for the forum to resolve this:

1. Is there a potential software fix I could deploy?
2. If not software fix is available, would it be possible to buy a "USB wifi adapted" that would somehow replace the internal wifi controller? If there is such a wifi adpter, would anyone have suggestions for a brand/model? 3.If all else fails, maybe buy a "powerline" set to run from upstairs in his home to donwstairs so it can connect directly via ethernet cable?

Any help would be really appreciated!