Dear forum,
Since moving into this house, I constantly have rather weird wifi problems. "Weird", because they do not seem to affect PCs and Laptops.
About my network:
My router (on the first floor) is a G-97RG6W from my vietnamese provider FPT.
After complaining to my landlord about the problems, he installed a TP-Link EC120-F5 as AP (hardwired to the router) on ground floor with a different SSID. In addition I have a TL-WA850RE range extender (but the problems already occured before installing that one). Currently my DHCP server runs on a pi-hole, this gave not improvement compared to the DHCP server running on the router.
I have around 40 devices on the network (though not all at the same time). This includes a few smarthome components (air purifiers, sockets, sensors) as well as phones and three Sonos speakers.
Now to my problems:
I have absolutely no problems with PCs and Laptops. My OpenHab Server on a Raspberry Pi perfectly communicates with all devices with low latency.
(Android) phones and tablets take a very long time to connect. Often the connection fails and the phone has to retry until it works. A lot of connections from inside apps (synchronization in games, messengers, updating weather apps...) takes ages and often does not happen at all. The phones often lose connection. Using browsers on the phones does not appear to be a problem, even when all other apps refuse synchronizing with some server, the browser still works, albeit sometimes a bit slow.
One of the Sonos speakers is hardwired to the router. In this case the speakers use their own wifi ("SonosNet"), which also appears faulty, the other speakers often disappear.
The problems are the same on all wifis, i.e. on the main router wifi, on the wifi extender, the additional AP and also on the 5GHz wifi on the main router (the rest is 2.4GHz).
Is there any way I can dig deeper into this or what I could try to narrow down the problem?
Since moving into this house, I constantly have rather weird wifi problems. "Weird", because they do not seem to affect PCs and Laptops.
About my network:
My router (on the first floor) is a G-97RG6W from my vietnamese provider FPT.
After complaining to my landlord about the problems, he installed a TP-Link EC120-F5 as AP (hardwired to the router) on ground floor with a different SSID. In addition I have a TL-WA850RE range extender (but the problems already occured before installing that one). Currently my DHCP server runs on a pi-hole, this gave not improvement compared to the DHCP server running on the router.
I have around 40 devices on the network (though not all at the same time). This includes a few smarthome components (air purifiers, sockets, sensors) as well as phones and three Sonos speakers.
Now to my problems:
I have absolutely no problems with PCs and Laptops. My OpenHab Server on a Raspberry Pi perfectly communicates with all devices with low latency.
(Android) phones and tablets take a very long time to connect. Often the connection fails and the phone has to retry until it works. A lot of connections from inside apps (synchronization in games, messengers, updating weather apps...) takes ages and often does not happen at all. The phones often lose connection. Using browsers on the phones does not appear to be a problem, even when all other apps refuse synchronizing with some server, the browser still works, albeit sometimes a bit slow.
One of the Sonos speakers is hardwired to the router. In this case the speakers use their own wifi ("SonosNet"), which also appears faulty, the other speakers often disappear.
The problems are the same on all wifis, i.e. on the main router wifi, on the wifi extender, the additional AP and also on the 5GHz wifi on the main router (the rest is 2.4GHz).
Is there any way I can dig deeper into this or what I could try to narrow down the problem?