Question Do I have a problem?

[NoGagMaestro]

I have xfinity 1Gbps internet plan and I've noticed some different things happen. I have a desktop and tv directly connected to the gateway (router/modem xfinity) while everything else in the house (printer, laptops, cell phones, ps5 etc) is connected wirelessly. I notice when I'm on the pc on youtube watching a video and if someone connects ps5 the youtube video will stop and start buffering. I've also noticed this happen when someone will come home and connect to wifi on their phone or other device as well or when using plex on my tv. Is there some issue going on that causes the network to stutter or when devices connect to the wifi? Is it possible to arrange certain devices get certain bandwith?

 

[kanewolf]

I have xfinity 1Gbps internet plan and I've noticed some different things happen. I have a desktop and tv directly connected to the gateway (router/modem xfinity) while everything else in the house (printer, laptops, cell phones, ps5 etc) is connected wirelessly. I notice when I'm on the pc on youtube watching a video and if someone connects ps5 the youtube video will stop and start buffering. I've also noticed this happen when someone will come home and connect to wifi on their phone or other device as well or when using plex on my tv. Is there some issue going on that causes the network to stutter or when devices connect to the wifi? Is it possible to arrange certain devices get certain bandwith?

Have you verified with speedtest that you are getting the 1Gb that you think you are supposed to?
Typically, with a wired device on gigabit service, you would not notice the other things you mentioned.

 

[NoGagMaestro]

Have you verified with speedtest that you are getting the 1Gb that you think you are supposed to?
Typically, with a wired device on gigabit service, you would not notice the other things you mentioned.

Yes. I get 119% my speed
1190.6 Mbps
115.7 Mbps
Latency 13ms

 

[bill001g]

The problem is only kind of a bandwidth issue. It is more the wifi devices interfering with each other.

Wifi unlike almost other network type is running half duplex. The method it uses to share the wifi bandwidth is based on the end devices themselves trying to corridnate the sharing. The main problem comes when the end devices and detect the router properly but can not detect each other. They will at times transmit at the same exact time which causes data damage.

The wifi devices should only affect each other they should not affect the devices connected via ethernet. If they somehow do then you have some issue with the router or you are getting errors on your internet connection that only happen when you have a partial load on it.

 

[NoGagMaestro]

The problem is only kind of a bandwidth issue. It is more the wifi devices interfering with each other.

Wifi unlike almost other network type is running half duplex. The method it uses to share the wifi bandwidth is based on the end devices themselves trying to corridnate the sharing. The main problem comes when the end devices and detect the router properly but can not detect each other. They will at times transmit at the same exact time which causes data damage.

The wifi devices should only affect each other they should not affect the devices connected via ethernet. If they somehow do then you have some issue with the router or you are getting errors on your internet connection that only happen when you have a partial load on it.

I take it there is nothing I can do on my end? It only effects my youtube watchage.

 

[bill001g]

Try to find something other than wifi for devices that are not actually portable.

Obviously ethernet but you if you have coax you can consider MoCA. Powerline might be slower then some wifi but it tends to not have the interference issues. Although I never recommend the lower units with 500 or 600 numbers even those get enough bandwidth to run 4k netflix in most houses.

The only thing I can suggest on wifi it to try to manually balance your devices on the 2.4 and 5 radios. This of course does nothing about all your neighbors devices that also interfere.