Recent content by Crimmo

No problem, your post is so helpful. Yes, it is Virgin Media in Ireland and they don't have alternative hardware so I will have to get new kit. It is proving difficult to find a European retailers with Netgear CM600. I found this list...

thanks, how would I do a traceroute?

Basically, the laptop couldn't connect to the internet immediately after the change, the TV did connect for a short while after the changes but eventually it couldn't connect either. My ISP is Virgin Media, part of Liberty Global, the router is made by Compal in China.

I made all those changes, switched to non-auto, the channel changes to n/ac etc. Unfortunately whatever I did ultimately stopped the internet totally :oops:, now that maybe my fault and not the advice. I restored it back to the way it was and at least the internet service came back.

I'll try this too, none of these options mean anything to me so I appreciate the insight.

Cheers, will do. We watched the Mandalorian yesterday and had some buffering on Disney, we use a Sports TV channels online streaming service and that buffers too but the big one is the IPTV service for regular tv channels.

Great advice and I will try that. Just to be clear, I change my channels for both 2.4 and 5 to 'manual' instead of 'auto' and then I switch off the Smart WiFi Channel Optimization? If I go manual I note we have the same 2.4 channel i.e. 11 but different 5 channels, 36 and 157. I don't have 157...

The other sections I have are: Security DHCP UPnP Tools

I can see it but I can tell you what it says: 2.4GHz enabled Wireless mode 802.11b/g/n mixed Channel Auto 11 Channel width 20Mhz 5GHz enabled Wireless mode 802.11 a/n/ac mixed Channel Auto 36 Channel width 20/40/80 Mhz Smart Wifi Enable channel optimization Cheers

The IPTV is accessed through my Amazon Firestick

Not sure if this helps explain better

I am using 5 for the wifi and I believe it is fixed. Would you suggest a better router etc. or making some settings changes to the existing set-up? Many thanks