![]() Finally for any devices that are wifi only, getting an smart wifi extender will be your best bet. These adapter use your electrical lines to connect to your router. ![]() For any devices that you can connect via ethernet if they are not near the router, consider getting some powerline adapters. This would give you a visual by color on which devices have trouble connecting and this will make troubleshooting easier. To gain an insight of which devices are having trouble with their connection go to (you can use the mobile app but with the recent update its not very helpful) head to tools and click on the network health check then select the advanced view. Too many devices on wifi are fighting for the same airspace and thats why some devices will buffer often or drop the connection. Going with the advice of the other members here, I would advice to try to wire devices where possible. In most cases is that one corner of your home which means your other devices on the other end would have a really hard time to connect and maintain their wifi connection. While that would be the best placement, in reality the gateway would probably be located at the install point of your fiber line. Ideally its best to place the router in a central location of the home. I see some options out there that are 32x8, but want to make sure that will A.) solve my problem, and B.) I buy one that is compatible with AT&T fiber.Īny help or guidance would be appreciated.įirst thing to ask is, where is the gateway located at? Someone, please help me understand my issue and if it is what I suspect, is the answer a new modem/router with 32 channels? I've read about how that could help. I seriously am a noob if you couldn't already tell. ![]() To be honest I'm not even sure how to connect devices to each specific frequency (2.4 or 5), or if they're even called frequencies, so I could be bottle-necking the WIFI at 4 or even 3 devices. With all that said, I think the 7 channels between the 2 frequencies isn't enough to run my smart home soup to nuts. But it is important to note that I do have all my Echos devices (16) set up to run on various speaker groups, so they all could be streaming music all at once, immediately having 16+ devices pulling from WIFI. Obviously I'm not actively using all 3 of my TVs, laptops, ipads/phones all at once, and I assume passive devices like the security system (disarmed), smart switches, bulbs, plugs & smart lock aren't constantly pulling from the WIFI. By my count I have as many as 43 devices connected to my WIFI at any given time. so I take that to mean that between the 2 frequencies (2.4 & 5) I can concurrently use (downstream as I understand it) 7 devices. the current modem/router (not really sure the difference so bear with me), says it supports "Concurrent Wi-Fi support for 3x3 802.11n on 2.4GHz, and 4x4 802.11ac on 5GHz). My Ring cameras will sometimes struggle to record montion activated video and the last straw for my wife was that the Arlo baby monitor will crash and stop streaming from my daughters room in the middle of the night. I also have issues where apps and my browser on my phone/ipad will just stop working and as soon as I flip off WIFI and go to LTE, it loads immediately. In short I constantly run into streaming issues with buffering and my (16) Echos randomly stopping playing my music or start buffering it. ![]() Now granted they don't have a smart home configured with 40+ devices. I have a larger(ish) house, but I know people with bigger houses and slower speed internet that have less issues. Running all of the following devices regularly via WIFI: 1 Amazon Fire TV Cube, 1 Amazon Fire TV, 1 Echo, 8 Echo Dots, 2 Echo Show 5s, 1 Echo Show 8, 1 Echo Tap, Apple TV 4K, 2 iPhones, 1 iPad, 1 Lenovo Think Pad, 1 Macbook Air, 2 Ring Floodlight Cameras, 2 Ring Stick up Cameras, 1 Ring Doorbell, Ring Security System, 1 August Smart Lock, 3 C by GE smart plugs, 3 C by GE smart bulbs, 7 C by GE smart switches and 1 Arlo Baby Monitor. Running the standard Arris BGW210-700 from ATT I have very limited knowledge so I'm going to list what I know, even though I may not know what it means, and then explain my problem and hopefully someone can help. ![]()
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