Wifi issue

[TrebleTA]

Hi all, another day another question.
I have a DSL AX82U, and notice I have been getting a weak siginal when upstairs, -78 RSSI, on one of my xboxs. I've tried playing with wifi settings and not having the best of luck, so only settings I've changed are, see pic.

My smart connect rules I have on default, I have tried tweaking with no luck.
So I'm thinking I may need a booster or something upstairs, just unsure what's best so think I would as you all for some advice.

Thanks

 

[degrub]

what is the physical layout ?
plan view of the house, location of wireless AP and clients, walls, floor etc. please.

Can you move the existing router/AP ?
or change the orientation ?

Do you have coax or ethernet anywhere else in the house ?
if so, please show those locations.

 

[TrebleTA]

I'm in a 3 bedroom semi detached house. On the ground floor, my front room is 5m x 4m, my router is in this room then got hallway and kitchen. I've tried putting the router in the hallway, I was getting a slight increase, but harder to have there it's a small house. I only have 1 ISP device. My router location is up high next to the doorway see picture. Found this to be a good spot, yet not the best.
from the router I have 4 eth cables 1 gos to the left of the door to a hue hub (3 bulbs 2 front room 1 in a bedroom), 3 othet cables to the back of the front room to my pc, nas and ps4, then wifi I have a Sky Q box, in the kitchen has wifi is a smart meter and a amazon alexa tower 2nd gen think it is.
Wifi wise I have connected, upstairs bedroom 1 small room just enouth for a single bed and a desk, all via wifi 1 pc, 1 xbox, 1 iphone, 1 iPad, smart tv and a echo dot.
2nd bedroom is bigger has a xbox one, xbox X, iphone and a echo dot.
Then last my room has a echo dot, Sky Q Mini, 2 samsung mobiles at night, also a security cam up at the window.
At the back of my address is a water storage for south east water and do have wifi siginals from that, my neighbor's all have there own devices broadcasting close by.
Hope I covered it all.
Thanks for the reply

Pic here, https://ibb.co/xMh51Rg

 

[OzarkEdge]

Any idea what is inside the wall at the irregular corner behind the router?

Have you tried moving the xbox around?

OE

 

[TrebleTA]

The wall are plaster boards with wood and metal scaffold. In the cornor is central heating pipes boxed in with wood.

 

[TrebleTA]

I do have plug extension leads with Serge protection. I've read it could be a issule?

 

[OzarkEdge]

I do have plug extension leads with Serge protection. I've read it could be a issule?

Issue for radio propagation? I don't think so.

The router antennas too close to an intervening pipe chase may degrade performance in that direction.

OE

 

[TrebleTA]

Yes the room is at the back of were the piping is. So would a booster in the upper hallway be my best bet?

 

[TrebleTA]

The pipes go up to a cupboard, with the heating pump and hot water tank, the main boiler is in the kitchen, back wall towards the garden.

 

[OzarkEdge]

Yes the room is at the back of were the piping is. So would a booster in the upper hallway be my best bet?

Your best bet is one wireless router in a location that sufficiently covers all wireless clients.

Next would be a wired AP or AiMesh node.

Next would be a wireless Repeater/extender/booster or AiMesh node. Or a wireless Media Bridge for wired clients only (all WiFi is dedicated to the backhaul, not shared between backhaul and clients).

OE

 

[TrebleTA]

Aimesh node is that wireless, as do not want to have to add switches or more cables down stairs?

 

[bbunge]

I noticed you are using channel 100 on 80 MHz. Instead use auto channel and let the router choose what is best. I've seen something recently that said the 5 GHz power is reduced in some of the UNII 2 channels. Might just be worth a try.

 

[TrebleTA]

I orginaly had auto and 160mhz clicked, yet would connect on 80mhz all time so think would set manual and the channel 100 is what the device was picking on auto. But did not look at siginal strength. Will check ot out thanks

 

[OzarkEdge]

Aimesh node is that wireless, as do not want to have to add switches or more cables down stairs?

AiMesh permits wired and wireless nodes.

US-FCC 5.0 bands U-NII-1,3 (ch 36-48, 149-165) permit 1000mW Tx power... bands 2a,2c (ch 52-64,100-144) permit 250mW Tx power. I understand that cellular LTE is allowed to overlap band 3. So, I'm using 80MHz bandwidth and ch 36-48... presumably max power and no LTE noise.

My install notes include this information and then some.

OE

 

[TrebleTA]

Thanks for the help OzarkEdge.
2.5g, I say I'm set on 20mhz ch11, so it's more my 5g.
If I try 160mhz, nothing seems to work or I lose wifi all togeather on devices.
So I set to 80mhz ch40. If I set auto it seems to like 100.

I have 2 Sky Q boxs, 1 connects to my router via 2.5ghz then I let them talk to each other on 5g 80mhz ch 36.

Wonder if there is a UK-fcc rules doc.

I will see how this gos

 

[TrebleTA]

I notice also you enable WiFi Agile Multiband, Target Wake Time. Yet think you should disable?

 

[OzarkEdge]

I notice also you enable WiFi Agile Multiband, Target Wake Time. Yet think you should disable?

I'm playing with these two settings... I may leave them at their defaults.

OE

 

[OzarkEdge]

Wonder if there is a UK-fcc rules doc.

I wonder if that would be of the ETSI-EU row on the 5.0 graphic in my notes... it has an exception called out for ch 144 in the UK.

OE

 

[TrebleTA]

Yes see channel 144, o can only select up to channel 140. But for 5ghz I now have it at 160mhz and channel 36 seems to give me less overall noise in the system log.
Also my other problem seem to be that the 2.5ghz siginal is high so it was not triggering the switch, so started looking at 2.5ghz, found 1,6,11 have 10db more noise to switch to 5ghz. So looking at your chart. If I use 2.5ghz at 40mhz is the best channels still 1,6,11?

 

[TrebleTA]

I'm also I dit confused by the 2.5ghz log. I've picked 40mhz ch 1 ext above. Yet it says at top channel 11 and then channel 3 yet prime channel?