This router has always given me issues when multiple devices have been connected to wifi. We have what I would consider an average number of devices connected. 2 phones, 2 tablets for the kids, a fire tv and a fire stick. The only things that really stream though are the tablets and the fire devices. What was happening is when the kids were on the tablets it would more or less kill the rest of the wifi. So I moved the router and Im running the firetv wired now.
However we seem to have a new issue now. If Im watching the firetv in one room, which is wired and on a static IP. The fire stick in the other room, which is wireless, cant remembered of thats got a static ip too or not, gets a poor signal and will start to buffer really badly.
I wouldn't think one should affect the other since one is wired and one is wireless. I have plenty of bandwidth, Im on a 500 meg connection which wired will get most all of that and in that room on 2.4, the signal does lose a fair bit of speed because its on the other side of the house, I average around 40 megs, sometimes as low as 20 but that still should be enough to stream. The 5Ghz signal from that router has always been terrible and not stable at all, so running on that band isnt going to work.
Anyone have any ideas or is there something wrong with the router and I need to replace it?
However we seem to have a new issue now. If Im watching the firetv in one room, which is wired and on a static IP. The fire stick in the other room, which is wireless, cant remembered of thats got a static ip too or not, gets a poor signal and will start to buffer really badly.
I wouldn't think one should affect the other since one is wired and one is wireless. I have plenty of bandwidth, Im on a 500 meg connection which wired will get most all of that and in that room on 2.4, the signal does lose a fair bit of speed because its on the other side of the house, I average around 40 megs, sometimes as low as 20 but that still should be enough to stream. The 5Ghz signal from that router has always been terrible and not stable at all, so running on that band isnt going to work.
Anyone have any ideas or is there something wrong with the router and I need to replace it?