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5G Wifi grinds to a halt when the router has been up for a long time
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:18 am
by evansnp
I've noticed an issue where the 5GHz Wifi's throughput drops to a very low level, when the router has been up for a while. This came to light when my daughter complained that she couldn't watch any 'catch up' TV. Her TV is the only device connected to the router's wifi, so it isn't a contention issue, and when I connected the TV to the 2.4GHz wifi, all was fine. Is anybody else seeing this behaviour?
Note: The TV is about 3M max from the router, so it isn't a signal strength issue.
Firmware version: 2.32e.dh4
Re: 5G Wifi grinds to a halt when the router has been up for a long time
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:52 am
by billion_fan
evansnp wrote:I've noticed an issue where the 5GHz Wifi's throughput drops to a very low level, when the router has been up for a while. This came to light when my daughter complained that she couldn't watch any 'catch up' TV. Her TV is the only device connected to the router's wifi, so it isn't a contention issue, and when I connected the TV to the 2.4GHz wifi, all was fine. Is anybody else seeing this behaviour?
Note: The TV is about 3M max from the router, so it isn't a signal strength issue.
Firmware version: 2.32e.dh4
Try changing the 5ghz channel or setting it to Auto and the 'Auto Channel Timer' to 1440 (which means it will scan for wireless interference every 24 hours)
Re: 5G Wifi grinds to a halt when the router has been up for a long time
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 2:23 pm
by evansnp
Hi Billion_Fan. I'm the only person locally using 5G, so I have it all to myself, so I don't think that it's a clash of channels. However, if you think that setting the autoscan will 'kick' the Wifi service every now and then, then I shall give it a try.
Re: 5G Wifi grinds to a halt when the router has been up for a long time
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 2:26 pm
by billion_fan
evansnp wrote:Hi Billion_Fan. I'm the only person locally using 5G, so I have it all to myself, so I don't think that it's a clash of channels. However, if you think that setting the autoscan will 'kick' the Wifi service every now and then, then I shall give it a try.
Give it ago mate, as I haven't had any similar reports
Re: 5G Wifi grinds to a halt when the router has been up for a long time
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 5:32 pm
by Tomken
Would the router run hotter on 5GHz than on 2.4GHz or would there be no difference ?
When routers get hot, that can slow down the speed and as this is a time related problem - that came to mind, so just asking.