Hi all,
First of all, quite a noob here, please bare with me.
I recently upgraded my N66U to a AC88U. I've been noticing some hesitance when establishing connections. It just hasn't felt quite... right? Some consistent examples would be;
-A silly phone game I play requires me to watch some adverts to get a daily boost, it would struggle to find ads (never on the 66u) I only thought it was the game until it noticed I can turn off wifi and find new ads almost instantly on the 4g.
- My smart tv would really struggle in a similar way to launch ondemand content.
- My phone would have huge lag to give me a delivery tick occasionally on messages sent out, wifi off, instant tick.
- General hesitance while on the web.
I decided to look how my N66U config varied from my AC88U and I discovered a setting in the 66 that to my knowledge is "wrong" but as my understanding is basic I thought I'd give it a go.
Using 8.8.8.8 in LAN DHCP server.
I have my DNS set in WAN with 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4...
The weird thing is - This worked? My game has unlimted instant adds again. I removed the setting from (it was blank back to blank) and my ads took a lot of thinking about to appear.
I don't really understand that. What should the LAN DHCP servers DNS be configured too? Does this behaviour and fix make sense?
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Additionally could anyone educate me on Wireless "control channel auto" I used an app on my phone to find the 'best' channel - it gave me the best rating on channel 13, I switched it to 13, my connection speed on the nearest device dropped to 24Mbps and devices further away could no longer see the router. Hoping for the opposite result and being confused I turned it back to auto and everyone returned to a functional connection. Why would that be? Does auto actively change channel for the best connection? It always says it's on 6? Can it and will it change on the fly if it can perform better on another channel?
Many thanks
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First of all, quite a noob here, please bare with me.
I recently upgraded my N66U to a AC88U. I've been noticing some hesitance when establishing connections. It just hasn't felt quite... right? Some consistent examples would be;
-A silly phone game I play requires me to watch some adverts to get a daily boost, it would struggle to find ads (never on the 66u) I only thought it was the game until it noticed I can turn off wifi and find new ads almost instantly on the 4g.
- My smart tv would really struggle in a similar way to launch ondemand content.
- My phone would have huge lag to give me a delivery tick occasionally on messages sent out, wifi off, instant tick.
- General hesitance while on the web.
I decided to look how my N66U config varied from my AC88U and I discovered a setting in the 66 that to my knowledge is "wrong" but as my understanding is basic I thought I'd give it a go.
Using 8.8.8.8 in LAN DHCP server.
I have my DNS set in WAN with 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4...
The weird thing is - This worked? My game has unlimted instant adds again. I removed the setting from (it was blank back to blank) and my ads took a lot of thinking about to appear.
I don't really understand that. What should the LAN DHCP servers DNS be configured too? Does this behaviour and fix make sense?
-
Additionally could anyone educate me on Wireless "control channel auto" I used an app on my phone to find the 'best' channel - it gave me the best rating on channel 13, I switched it to 13, my connection speed on the nearest device dropped to 24Mbps and devices further away could no longer see the router. Hoping for the opposite result and being confused I turned it back to auto and everyone returned to a functional connection. Why would that be? Does auto actively change channel for the best connection? It always says it's on 6? Can it and will it change on the fly if it can perform better on another channel?
Many thanks
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