 koamPink PeckerPremium
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East Puddle
 ·Shoreham Telephone
| Belkin Play N600 + - one of the bands sometimes very slow I'm experiencing serious slowdowns on the 2.4 GHz band of this dual-band router. Signal strength excellent (just 5 feet from router, for example) and then web pages don't load (browser stalls as if there were no internet connection). Restarting router fixes this.
On a computer that can connect using either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz, when I get these slowdowns on 2.4, I switch over to 5 GHz and routing, streaming, etc. are fine....all on the same internet connection, without restarting anything.
I'd like to know if it's possible that the 2.4 GHz band is dying on me or if there is something I can do about it.
Thanks.
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koamPink PeckerPremium
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East Puddle | We see the intermittent slowness on the 2.4 GHz band across different devices - 2 computers, 2 smartphones...even when only one device is being used...so we've isolated the issue to the 2.4 Ghz band of the router. |
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 mozerdLight Will Pierce The DarknessPremium,MVM
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Nepean, ON | reply to koam
Based on the symptoms ur describing I suspect that ur 2.4Ghz is in contention with other 2.4Ghz radios in close proximity.
So if you live in an area that is saturated with wireless radios all competing for the same 3 channels [1,6,11] your 2.4Ghz will perform poorly.
Other stuff that can adversely interfere with ur 2.4Ghz N600 is if ur using a wireless mouse/keyboard or Bluetooth gear as well as 2.4Ghz wireless phones and if that is the case stop using those type of peripherals.
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koamPink PeckerPremium
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| Thanks. We don't really have any wireless mouse/keyboard (laptops only) or bluetooth running. The Panasonic phones we have are DECT 6.0, I believe, so should be 1.9GHz.
We have 3 laptops, normally only 1 or 2 running. 2 HTC EVO 4G Android phones that use 2.4GHz on the WiFi, when they're in use. |
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mozerdLight Will Pierce The DarknessPremium,MVM
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Nepean, ON | You need to find out how many other people who live near where you live are using wireless communication -- U can do that quite easily from one of your wireless laptops by looking at 'available wireless networks' ... if you see a long list then U will know that all of them are competing for the same channels that ur N600 is trying to use and that will slow your performance. |
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koamPink PeckerPremium
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| Thanks.
My guess is that the neighbors' networks are likely not an issue. There are only 2 neighbors and each is at least 2 or 3 lots away....there are trees in between .... & it's a big house. We can sometimes pick up an SSID from 2 neighbors on one of the machines but the signal is quite low ("Poor") and we could never connect to their networks from the center of the house where our router and computers are (we don't hang out in the wings of our house that face either of 2 neighbors).
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mozerdLight Will Pierce The DarknessPremium,MVM
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Nepean, ON | OK, then something is wrong with the N600 operating in the 2.4Ghz band .... Exchange it for another and see if the issue goes away. Before doing that however is that u can try forcing the 2.4Ghz band to use channel 1 or channel 6 or Chanel 11 and see if that solves ur issue ... If that solves ur issue then u can surmise that it's either something is wrong with the 'auto' channel selection method [firmware bug] or there is interference from some emmiter that you are not able to see.
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