Scott Kaforey
Occasional Visitor
I was having a very weird problem which has been resolved (I think), but I'm not sure if the changes I made are what caused the problem to be fixed.
I have an N66 with a lot of devices connected. Anywhere between 20-40 devices. The devices include wireless/wired and are composed of everything from PC's, to tablets, to IP cameras, to my bed (yes, my bed).
This weekend I was adding 7 security cameras to the network and I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence, but I started getting very sporadic wireless performance. The cameras are all hard wired (POE). However, both the 2.4 and 5ghz bands would basically slow down to a point where they were unusable (speed tests below 1mbit/sec where they're normally over 100mbit). The weird part is that the wired connections were behaving perfectly fine. Sometimes rebooting the router would resolve the problem temporarily, but within a few hours, the problem would usually reappear. Sometimes rebooting the router didn't do anything.
I did a lot of testing and trials including turning off devices, disabling some of my phones wireless connections (I was reading about a weird android 5.x problem that could kill wireless connections). I also powered off my cable modem for quite awhile in order to reduce outside traffic to see if Wireshark could show anything interesting. I didn't see anything. I tried clearing NVRAM, resetting to factory defaults, etc. Nothing helped for more than a few hours.
Previously, I was using DHCP for basically everything. I decided I wanted to try setting up static DHCP to all of my known devices based on MAC address. That was not a fun process to add about 45 devices to the list, but once I did this, the wireless and wired connections have been perfect (for 2 days straight).
My question is, does having too many DHCP clients start to effect the router? Is using static DHCP less taxing on the router?
I have an N66 with a lot of devices connected. Anywhere between 20-40 devices. The devices include wireless/wired and are composed of everything from PC's, to tablets, to IP cameras, to my bed (yes, my bed).
This weekend I was adding 7 security cameras to the network and I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence, but I started getting very sporadic wireless performance. The cameras are all hard wired (POE). However, both the 2.4 and 5ghz bands would basically slow down to a point where they were unusable (speed tests below 1mbit/sec where they're normally over 100mbit). The weird part is that the wired connections were behaving perfectly fine. Sometimes rebooting the router would resolve the problem temporarily, but within a few hours, the problem would usually reappear. Sometimes rebooting the router didn't do anything.
I did a lot of testing and trials including turning off devices, disabling some of my phones wireless connections (I was reading about a weird android 5.x problem that could kill wireless connections). I also powered off my cable modem for quite awhile in order to reduce outside traffic to see if Wireshark could show anything interesting. I didn't see anything. I tried clearing NVRAM, resetting to factory defaults, etc. Nothing helped for more than a few hours.
Previously, I was using DHCP for basically everything. I decided I wanted to try setting up static DHCP to all of my known devices based on MAC address. That was not a fun process to add about 45 devices to the list, but once I did this, the wireless and wired connections have been perfect (for 2 days straight).
My question is, does having too many DHCP clients start to effect the router? Is using static DHCP less taxing on the router?
