Blu-Ray kicking computer off internet

[kjkinney67]

I need help! I bought my son a Sony BDP-S3200 Wireless Blu-Ray player so he could watch Netflix without using our computers, and I've just upgraded our wireless Router to an Asus-Double 450Mbps N RT-N66 R. When my husband is on his computer, and my son starts watching Netflix in his room, my husband loses internet. Here's the kicker - I don't...my computer is 5 ft away and I never lose connection...it's just my husband's. As I understand it, I cannot change the frequency of that particular router...is there a fix for this annoying problem? Thanks!

 

[RealBeast]

The best solution would be place your son's BluRay on a different frequency than the computers use.

For example, if the player supports it put him on 5GHz and you and your husband use 2.4GHz since it is a concurrent dual band router. And you indeed can change the channels within each frequency band if needed to avoid interference from other nearby networks. It is easier to select the frequency range (2.4 or 5GHz) if you use a different SSID for each.

THIS is a good free wireless frequency analyzer than will run on any PC to detect all nearby 2.4 and 5GHz signals. You want your 2.4GHz to be on one of the three non-overlapping channels (1, 6, or 11) that has the least other activity.

That is a great router, the best in its class, the real issue is that video streaming takes up all the bandwidth that it is streamed over.

 

[g90814]

The blu-ray player only supports 2.4Ghz.

Try setting up a 'guest' network just for the blu-ray player. That might isolate it from your computer's network.

Your router is certainly capable of providing connectivity for all your devices, so it's just something in the configuration.

 

[kjkinney67]

The best solution would be place your son's BluRay on a different frequency than the computers use.

For example, if the player supports it put him on 5GHz and you and your husband use 2.4GHz since it is a concurrent dual band router. And you indeed can change the channels within each frequency band if needed to avoid interference from other nearby networks. It is easier to select the frequency range (2.4 or 5GHz) if you use a different SSID for each.

THIS is a good free wireless frequency analyzer than will run on any PC to detect all nearby 2.4 and 5GHz signals. You want your 2.4GHz to be on one of the three non-overlapping channels (1, 6, or 11) that has the least other activity.

That is a great router, the best in its class, the real issue is that video streaming takes up all the bandwidth that it is streamed over.

Thanks so much for the info, I really appreciate you taking time to answer me. I downloaded that analyzer and found I am on ch. 6, with 4 co-shares (?) and 2 overlaps...seems like everyone in my neighborhood is on 6 and 11 on 2.4 GHz, with none on 5 GHz...how can I change to ch 1 on 2.4 GHz and get the Blu-ray to 5GHz? I'm not very tech savvy, and have NO IDEA how to change channels or rectify this situation...is there an easy way?

 

[g90814]

You can set channels in the wireless configuration area of the router (advanced settings).

See my suggestions above also.

 

[kjkinney67]

The blu-ray player only supports 2.4Ghz.

Try setting up a 'guest' network just for the blu-ray player. That might isolate it from your computer's network.

Your router is certainly capable of providing connectivity for all your devices, so it's just something in the configuration.

Thanks for replying! Please forgive my ignorance, but how do I isolate the Blu-ray and set it up as a "guest"? I just hooked the new wireless router up and everything connected to the established network without me having to really do anything to it.

 

[g90814]

All explained in the user manual, much easier than me trying to tell you since I'm not familiar with this particular router. It looks pretty easy:

http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN66R/HelpDesk_Manual/

Set up a guest network (different wireless network name) and have blu-ray connect to it. It separates it from regular network your computers use.

 

[kjkinney67]

You can set channels in the wireless configuration area of the router (advanced settings).

See my suggestions above also.

Again, please forgive my ignorance, but how exactly do I get there? The only place I see the router info in under "network infrastructure", and I don't see an "advanced" tab...

 

[kjkinney67]

All explained in the user manual, much easier than me trying to tell you since I'm not familiar with this particular router. It looks pretty easy:

http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN66R/HelpDesk_Manual/

Set up a guest network (different wireless network name) and have blu-ray connect to it. It separates it from regular network your computers use.

Thank you so much! I'll work on it!

 

[RealBeast]

Not to be negative on the idea, but a guest network on 2.4GHz will still probably cause issues. While each radio can support 4 VLANs, there is only one 2.4GHz and one 5GHz radio in the unit. So all VLANs on a specific radio, here the 2.4GHz, will share the bandwidth.

I would buy 5GHz dongles for the two computers (or just one if one already supports 5GHz) and use channel 1 on the 2.4GHz for the BluRay player, unless it is possible to connect the computers with Ethernet cables.

 

[RealBeast]

I rarely use the manual, as it becomes fairly intuitive once you do it a lot, but IIRC the location in the configuration pages to change the radio channels is under Advanced Setting along the left side and the first one is Wireless -- just open that and look for the 2.4GHz radio and assign it to use channel 1.