I’ve been troubleshooting major drops in wireless speeds and coming up blank. The throughput speed of my service on WiFi will go from around 28-32mbps (roughly what I’d expect depending on distance, walls etc) and plummet to 2mbps or even 700kbps... then ramp back up to between 5-10mbps and stay there. I cannot achieve a consistent speed of over 25mbps which is poor when the average throughput should be 36.
On ethernet I do get an average of 36 so something is up with wireless.
I’ve done the usual things, used my computer to find out which channel is least congested, moved the router around the corner on an extension lead to remove a wall obstacle, used another router (plugged into the my service provider’s one as a second network since the original one doesn’t have a modem mode) which has better range and signal strength on a range of channels and settings. No change.
What kinds of things can cause these drops? Some kind of interference? Fault with the service provider’s hardware?
Not sure what else I can try! The service provider isn’t interested since the ethernet speeds are as would be expected... I ran a diagnostic on my computer and the only thing it flagged was that someone else’s router in range is German and could possibly interfere with British routers... not sure how likely that is to cause major issues!
On ethernet I do get an average of 36 so something is up with wireless.
I’ve done the usual things, used my computer to find out which channel is least congested, moved the router around the corner on an extension lead to remove a wall obstacle, used another router (plugged into the my service provider’s one as a second network since the original one doesn’t have a modem mode) which has better range and signal strength on a range of channels and settings. No change.
What kinds of things can cause these drops? Some kind of interference? Fault with the service provider’s hardware?
Not sure what else I can try! The service provider isn’t interested since the ethernet speeds are as would be expected... I ran a diagnostic on my computer and the only thing it flagged was that someone else’s router in range is German and could possibly interfere with British routers... not sure how likely that is to cause major issues!