Solving WiFi Issues - WiFi Tips and Tricks
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- We have so many connected devices in our homes these days, that WiFi can sometimes become congested and unreliable.
Here are my best tips to assure a happy and connected household!
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Thank you so much Steve! I have a R7900 and that's an upgrade from I don't know, over the years, I've had 3 or 4 routers. But, I am still kinda confused when it comes to networking. I've learned more from you today in this short video than I have from all the instruction papers and videos I've seen to date! So, wish me luck!
Your videos is awesome and informative. I had subscribe and keep learning each day without given up.
When your internet is so bad you can't even get to the internet speed test page
You got some serius problems m8
The Baconator I got major issues there are at least 20 networks on every major channel 1 ,6,11
my wifi drops every 2 to 5 minutes. no matter what channel I set it to
The Baconator preach it
same
damn whenever i play CSGO i get 999 pings
Another awesome tech video Steve! Your delivery / style of information is easy to follow and provides the right about of "tech" speak that it keeps me coming back for more... keep up the great work.
John Hotaling Thanks John, I appreciate you taking the time to share that with me!
Thanks for taking time to add actual captions for the Deaf instead of the automatic
thankYa Dotto! I'm compu-illiterate and having so many probs which r stealing my FaceTime from my kids.appreciation for You taking the time2 help us All:) Blessed Be!
Thank you! Very informative.
@Dottotech!! How the hell are you! I used to love catching your show on TV back in the olden days! Looks like you've been on CZcams for awhile! Suppose that shouldn't be such a surprise but regardless it's great and I'll subscribe right now! Thanks for all your knowledge!
I also loved Dotto's Data Cafe.
Great easy to understand info! Thank, Roy
My son lived in an apartment a while back and he had some neighbors next door that were always "Getting Busy" if you know what I mean. They were very loud at their activities. So he decided to change his SSID to "We can hear you having sex" lol... Now that was funny!
Congrats on the nighthawk 3200. I tried the tri-band setup as well, but found the best results in combining all 3 bands in automatic mode
Something else to take into consideration within your home, is the construction of the home. I have the Nighthawk X6 as well but, it doesn't reach the entire house. I've had to use 3 different access points to get signal. The X6 is located upstairs, in new construction homes this, in general, wouldn't be an issue. However, my house was built in the 1930s and still has nearly all of its original shiplap walls. Shiplap is horrible for wifi. I plan on hard wiring the entire house and adding 2 more X6 routers setup as access points for full coverage. Great overview of 'fixing' wifi.
New subscriber gained. Awesome video, keep up the good work!
The WiFi Service you pay extra for, I have as the most basic package where I live. That aside lol you shared some good tips, awesome video.
Thanks for the info and the humor.
About a month ago, as I got off a subway here in NYC, I was searching for a WiFi. One of the IPs listed was "FBI Surveilence Van"
There was a panic in Michigan about a router listed as “Remote Detenator”
Thanks for the tip on installing the router up hi
Very informative. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, sir.
I moved my wireless router from the basement to the main floor. It fixed my issues with the WiFi, Thank you.
Thank you. This was helpful.
beginner here. gonna start following you like a papparazzi!
Good router is a must! I have a very good Linksys in the basement and still get very good wifi in the second story!!
So informative! Thank you!
Great video, changed channel as suggested but no better signal...I'll keep trying...great info!
Super useful, great vid and easy to understand. Thank you!
Glad t helped.
I am SO glad I found you! I am not tech savvy at all! I know the basics but that’s about it.
I have been having a lot of trouble with WiFi for oh roughly 6 months. I’ve just dealt with it and put off finding out what the problem is. Well now I’m at my wits end and want it fixed. After all I pay $165 a month for cable, phone, and internet and it should work!
Thanks for introducing the repeater. It significantly improved the reception in the back of my house.
St0p
Coo tips as always. thanks steve
Thanks fantastic tips.
Great video thanks for the tips.
dotto!!! where have you been man!? I haven't seen you in at least 10 years! and you were on TV! OMG
Nice to see you again. Used to watch your TV show many years ago than you just disappeared.
Oh my gawd! I t’s Steve Dotto! I used to watch your tv show years ago!
Hey there!
WOW, this really helped me a lot with the wifi thanks .
Another great video!
It works! Thanks a lot.
Thanks Steve Dotto for another informative and incredibly useful video. Speaking of streaming video, while the wife enjoys Downton Abbey, I've gained so much more in productivity binge-watching DottoTech on CZcams today while, at the same time, discovering my inner geek. Keep those videos coming. Cheerio!
Ralph Somma Hey Ralph, sounds like our lives are similar! Have a great 2015!
GREAT KNOWLEDGE! THANKS!
Great tips , thanks
Well done and thank you.
Thanks for this info it is very helpful. Even in 2019
I solved my wifi issues by simply moving my router over about 4 ft.
~ The story... I was getting 50 mbs when I was in the living room (where the router was) but upstairs, I was getting 6 mbs, and in the basement I was getting 4 mbs. Even when I was directly above or below where the router was setting.
~ I moved the router upstairs (per your suggestions in this video) and got 50 mbs in every room upstairs... but only got 3 mbs in the living room, and 2 mbs in the basement. Weird.
~ I put the router back in the living room, but this time I sat the router in a spot about 4 ft from where I use to have it in the living room. Now, I'm getting full strength in every single room in the house! WOO HOOO! ~
"What was causing the slow issues?", you ask? Steel support beams. Yep. That's right. Steel. Beams. Those things apparently wreak havoc with wifi signals... and I have TWO of them in my new house. One in the floor between basement and 1st floor, and the other between 1st and 2nd floors (because of a loft area). I didn't not know we had two beams.
~ It ends up that when the router was originally in the living room, I had the router setting directly above one of the steel support beams. When I put the router upstairs, I had the router directly over the other steel beam. When I put the router back in the living room, I put it in a different space, which was 4 ft away from the steel beam. That was all it took to get my wifi speeds going full tilt in every room of the house.
Any metal beam or surface will interfere with your signal. That includes even mirrors. People don't know or forget that mirrors are something more than glass, and they reflect wifi signals as they reflect light.
try wifi extenders .. you got alot of signal disruptions due to walls and material used
Billing
>setting
Great video, when you were mention the wired extender I purchased one and worked in certain plugs but the one I needed it for it wouldn't connect is that because I'm possibly on more than one breaker? Thanks
Thanks a lot.
Excellent video and explanatory ! I also use these programs to learn more about the wi-fi .
Vitor - Brazil.
What a great teacher!!!
thank you sir
Thanks, nice job, sir! Good info. Subbing today.
Thank you much..extremely informative in layman term.
i love this teaching
Very interesting, Steve. I learned a lot. Thanks for posting. I burst out laughing on the "dad" name. I sent your video on to my hubby, he is the one that is to "blame" for our wifi LOL
Kristina Krumm I am glad you found it useful! Live the SSID humour.....
THANK YOU!!!
Great tips.
Nice job mate. Trying this repeater doovy. Hopefully i get coverage to the next room, 10m away.
Cool vid well explained mate👍
I'm living hell I have 3 smart lights an Google home 1 TV 2 pcs 1 xbox 1 tablet 1 smartphone only in my room and there is more 3 rooms that are renting and my internet is 30mb and the Router don't have 5hz no external antena and I can't access the modem menu even when reset and every half hour or so it goes down for 3 min I'm thinking about the Asus 1200g+ does it hold?
And you have another subscriber, Thank You ... I hope you an let me know how to fix my issue I mentioned prior to this message about dead spot in my house and have used a power line adopter - still nothing sadly.
Mom: Can you fix the wifi?
me: yea *unplugs router and modem, plugs them back in*
Mom: wow, your so good at this!
me: *sigh*
LOL
Mac MashPotato SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME.
Same here
*you're
💀🏁...So cute!😂
Move to Chattanooga Tennessee. We have EPB Fiber Optics and the minimum speed is 300Mbps for $60/month and GIG 1000Mbps is only $10 more. Upload and download are same no matter what time of day it is because there is no congestion on the system because everyone has their own dedicated fiber feed direct from headend to home. LOVE IT!!!!
Thank you
I've still got a little work to do Steve. I OWN the Nighthawk X6 and it is AWESOME, but the range isn't what it could be even with an extender in the mix... But thanks for the informative video!!
Man i struggled with poor signal for a year. Only thing i needed to do literaly was put my router a little bit higher.
Thank you for the video
Great tips! Will you share how you do your really neat overlay video for CZcams?
Thanks Steve for the great advice to setup router.
JK T Glad it helps!
Hi Steve,
We have 6 people with 25 devices connected to the internet now main modem is not the best at all I found away that lessens the device congestion over all.
Now my bedroom is the actual garage where the internet WiFi signal is least strongest and the furtherest from the modem in our upstairs spare room.
Now I connected powerline Ethernet adapter kit to the main modem via Ethernet, then I used my old tp-link adsl2+ modem and disabled dsl setting that allows to use an isp,
From there I configured and in bridge mode and having as a router only and then ran a second Ethernet cable from the powerline adapter in my room to my modem which carries the internet signal
to my room in garage from I connected my desktop pc, my MacBook Air, my Xbox and nas to that using Ethernet cables with problems, then I configured the WiFi on my modem with new Sid’s on both bands 2.4ghz and the 5ghz for my iPad and iPhone with custom passwords creating my own network.
I had found out there was still congestion on the network with our tenant downstairs so I connected a WiFi extender and connected that to the main modem and creating there own network if fixed that issue for while then it’s started up all over again a 3rd time with my cousins gaming pc so I repeated the same process I did in my room minus the powerline adapter, I got another tp-link modem configured it all on bridge mode ran a 15m Ethernet cable from the main modem into the back that tp-link modem and ran Ethernet cables from the desktop and 2 ps4’s in to and configured WiFi network Ssid’s and it was all done.
Only the only running the main modems only supports 2.4ghz band is 3 apple computers, 1 tablet, 3 phones, 1 Apple TV and 2 smart TVs and all this is rarely used mainly 1 laptop, 1 tablet and 3 phones are used between 3 people and stopped all congestion on the home network, only time we have problems is when our isp here is doing upgrades on the network from there end other than that it’s sweet no problems at all and it took me about 5-15 mins to do it all with connections and configurations for each network devices with extenders and modems running off the main modem it was quick and easy.
I don’t need to adjust any settings for channels that’s self maintained, stopped all network congestion’s and every sing internet argument in our house hold!!!
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Dam you said a month full. I wish I understood. But sounds like your a smart guy to figure all that out.
Hi there great video gonna take you advice. About your friends concrete bunker lol what did you say it is called he used and couldn't he use a eithernet cable to run WiFi info that room? I'm done with it comes to WiFi so I'm asking cause I want to get WiFi info my basement but was gonna run Ethernet cable to a extender down there but if there a better way I'll try it
thanks a lot.
Thank you for explain ,high traffic
Steve, this is an excellent video. I couldn't have said it any better. I do tech support and get as least 2 calls per week asking for help with this topic, dropped internet connections. I have to explain these steps to users over and over. To your comment, I'd argue that the number of devices in your home is not as important as the number of other routers in your area (neighbors) that interfere with yours, that is the biggest issue, and thus "channel isolation" is the biggest fix. I've added this video to my collection of advice for my users. I've Thumbs up, Subscribed and now Commented. Its a triple-play!
Great feedback and thank you!
YES SIR ! thank you ...... how i feel at my house.
I enjoyed your video very much because when it comes to internet and WiFi I’m just starting out and that is only because I recently installed a diy security system and I lose internet connection sometimes and then sometimes I will lose my WiFi. But my question to you is should I have my hub to my security system plugged directly into my router or is WiFi good enough. I’m also calling my internet provider because I don’t believe I’m getting what I’m paying for. Any help would be appreciated thanks
Question regarding WiFi extenders, can you have a WiFi extender and a WiFi power line on the same router?
Thanks for the great info. I am using an Arris router provided by my service provider. But I also have a spare AirPort Extreme router. Would really like to bring it online, by I’m terrified on how. Do you have any advice? Thank you. .
sir, in country like Singapore will all the above info is applicable. plse advice. your video is awesome.
I have a question, I U can help i really appreciated it, I have a Fios Quantum router i did connected all the netgear you can imagine... the last one was The orbi mesh, now i was thinking do U think is possible to connect this extender using the ethernet cable to the extender plus add to more extenders but wireless and connect all 3 with the Verizon router in order to get a huge wifi mesh just using 3 of this repeaters and only using only the Verizon router that is also a combo with the modem, do U think it will work without adding an extra router as an AP?... thanks again for your help.
plz update your programs this is from 2014 thank you
I have the linksys wrt 32x and it won't let me use the speed test. I clicked on the run speed test but still won't let me.
I miss the good old days whey they hid the power switch on the back of the computer to keep stupid people off of it.
John Schlicker HA
A neighbor's SSID is "Youcrazykidsstayofmynetwork." 🤣
So my WiFi works if you plug it into the eather net port but the net gear box itself won’t connect to the internet do you have any clue what’s wrong and should I buy a new router box?
Hello i have a question for you Sir, my ewelink (smart lights and plugs app) only connects to 2.4 wifi and I have a 5 wifi router.How can i solve this problem?
Love the SSD names! Mine is DieTrying.....
Panny boy from the west side is in da house
good tips..... i want to ask 1 thing... will there be a interface if i mount router on wall at near sealing cause I already done and i am not getting that range to my bedroom it looses the strength in bedrooms balcony which has 2 antennas and i have 30mbps speed but in bedroom its like 4mbps even if just a single network point loss
since you have the x6, enable the ‘smart’ feature of the router and it will load balance your 2.4 and your 2 5GHz band. where the slower devices are automatically put on the slower band. the 2 5GHz bands are also load balanced where if there are more than 3 devices on the first and none or 1-2 devices on the 2nd, the router automatically puts the device on the band with the lighter traffic. if you set them to connect to specific bands, you could end up with 5 devices on 1 5ghz band and none on the other and slow down your connection. my 2 cents.
If you are smart, you wire up the static devices in the house with Ethernet cables and leave wifi only for smart phones and netbooks. All TVs, media streaming devices should be plugged in by the ethernet cables. But I understand if are in a temporary situation and don't own the house or plan to stay long.
Steve, I'm a freelance computer/network tech and interested to know where you got the info about wifi working better being higher up? Also, should be worth noting that repeaters and powerline ethernet are NOTORIOUSLY flaky.
Thanks for sharing the link to the analyzer app!
Glenn Beck is doing Tech Now LOL, like the video, happy new year
When you turn on the download speed of internet. And it goes up to the speed you want. My question is how can that be trusted because I don't know if there is another way of testing their speed.
Fantastic!!!!
A couple thoughts, how about turning the wifi ap upside down, then signal will down....or should I say up, or turning the antana ' s to better send signals.
Do you have some recommendations for wifi extenters...as there seem to be a lot of biased adds and reviews on some extenders, and cannot really get good reviews?
KEATH POLYAK WiFi extenders split the available bandwidth. Mesh is far superior.
Thanks for the video, a lot of people complain about adds on the wifi app what do you think?
I would like one like it for my iPad do you know if there is one out there? Just put the app on android tablet it shows ch14 is my best choice but when I go to Linksys router I only have ch 1 to 11 any suggestions? Thanks
Steve, can you tell me the difference between 2.4 and 5GHz. What should i use and on what device? i find that i get more mbs on 5ghz than 2.4. If my computer is 6 ghz, can i use 5 ghz from the wifi? Thanks Darren.
I have a question, I have a Galaxy s5 and when try to use periscope to broadcast and doesn't connect. Maybe you could give a tip. Oh by the way I live in venezuela my Internet its 2MB
My internets so bad i have to stand by my router to even watch this video
also let me ask, My Mac is hooked to the ethernet but my dell laptop will only use the 2g band. will that be slower? Our iPads and iPhones use both the 5 and the 2
When your upload speed ? is 1.48 and your download speed? is 1.30 there's no use trying to speed up your wi fi as we have in rural Greenville Texas. That's what I've found out.
Good stuff ... thank you for posting ... : )
DC-Friends Glad you liked it
I use Speedtest the same one you use and I live in Louisville Ky I ping everyone customer off of Cincinnati Ohio because of the congestion issues the upload speeds for say 60mps will give me up and over 70mps and download is over 5-6 pings around 49
I have an old AirPort Extreme in a basement and when I go to the 2nd floor, your video just spun for a bit. I also have an airport express on the second floor but I don’t think that is doing anything. I get 30 down and 20 up so I get good service, so I was thinking of getting the powerline to help with slowing of internet. But are they just for hard witeconnects? Thank you.
What about connecting two routers together. I saw some people do this.
Yea you can do that all a router is a gateway connection to the internet you’ll just have multiple IP connections
i live in a bottom floor flat i got a 15 ft cable is this too long for my router or should i use a wifi connector
What if you don't have a router only the Isp modem? There isn't much I can do with it to be honest.
Bro i have super speed internet... But when i do streaming,, it appears the data will not perform its stable or consistent etc...