Recently I've begun having some issues with the wifi performance of this router. When multiple devices are ruining its running out of bandwidth. The issue is compounded that I have project fi and all my phone calls are over wifi. Even with nothing else running my call quality is not great, but especially when other things are running people cant hear me and they call are breaking up...even if Im standing right next to the routers.
wifi speeds are very inconsistent. Right now I just ran 2 tests from my living room which is probably 60 feet from the router and in going through 3 or 4 walls. One was in the 40 Mbps range and the other was nearly 80. Average is usually in the 60s. I know the range is killing the signal, but dropping by more than half seems extreme. I get 130 if Im closer to the router.
This is all on the 2.4g network.
the other issue is the the 5g performance of this router is terrible. I know that 5 g doesn't have as good of range as 2.4 but even still it seems that something isn't right with it. Just as an example I have a fire tv and I connect on wifi at 5g it says the signal is poor to marginal.....moving to 2.4 its good. So Ive tried running on 5g but the signal in parts of the house are just too inconsistent for the most part. It drops too much.
Right now Im running on channel 3 for 2.4 as its the least congested channel I can find around me. Im at 161 for 5g. Im running auto for wireless mode.
I run a PC thats connected wired. A Fire TV wireless, 2 tablets and 2 phones....all wireless obviously.
The Fire Tv has a static IP as does the computer thats connected wired.
The phones and tablets all get IPs from DHCP.
It sounds like a lot but were not constantly looking at videos on the phones. The tablets, they do watch videos, but also we rarely have everything going at once. When we do though it is noticeable. If the kids are watching something on the tablets dn Im watching something on the firetv Ill get a bit of buffering sometimes.
If anyone is watching a video, even on one device, it destroys my phone connection.
I get around 260Mbps from my modem on wired and its pretty consistent, so the speed from my provider isn't the problem.
Im at a point where Im going to just buy a mesh setup and forget it but Id really like to not have to spend the 300 bucks if I dont have to considering this router was already pretty expensive and was supposed to be one of the best out there when I got it, so Im not quite ready to completely give up on it just yet.
So is there anything I can try or is this is what it is?
I tried to provide as much relevant detail as I could but if ive missed anything let me know and I can check.
wifi speeds are very inconsistent. Right now I just ran 2 tests from my living room which is probably 60 feet from the router and in going through 3 or 4 walls. One was in the 40 Mbps range and the other was nearly 80. Average is usually in the 60s. I know the range is killing the signal, but dropping by more than half seems extreme. I get 130 if Im closer to the router.
This is all on the 2.4g network.
the other issue is the the 5g performance of this router is terrible. I know that 5 g doesn't have as good of range as 2.4 but even still it seems that something isn't right with it. Just as an example I have a fire tv and I connect on wifi at 5g it says the signal is poor to marginal.....moving to 2.4 its good. So Ive tried running on 5g but the signal in parts of the house are just too inconsistent for the most part. It drops too much.
Right now Im running on channel 3 for 2.4 as its the least congested channel I can find around me. Im at 161 for 5g. Im running auto for wireless mode.
I run a PC thats connected wired. A Fire TV wireless, 2 tablets and 2 phones....all wireless obviously.
The Fire Tv has a static IP as does the computer thats connected wired.
The phones and tablets all get IPs from DHCP.
It sounds like a lot but were not constantly looking at videos on the phones. The tablets, they do watch videos, but also we rarely have everything going at once. When we do though it is noticeable. If the kids are watching something on the tablets dn Im watching something on the firetv Ill get a bit of buffering sometimes.
If anyone is watching a video, even on one device, it destroys my phone connection.
I get around 260Mbps from my modem on wired and its pretty consistent, so the speed from my provider isn't the problem.
Im at a point where Im going to just buy a mesh setup and forget it but Id really like to not have to spend the 300 bucks if I dont have to considering this router was already pretty expensive and was supposed to be one of the best out there when I got it, so Im not quite ready to completely give up on it just yet.
So is there anything I can try or is this is what it is?
I tried to provide as much relevant detail as I could but if ive missed anything let me know and I can check.
