Wifi

[NastyNeil]

When I am at the gym, at my friend's house, or upstairs in my house, I don't drop my wifi signal, but when I'm downstairs in my house I drop signal constantly. Something in my living room must be causing interference. I just can't seem to figure out what though. Could it be something else using wifi? Microwave? Cable box? Any ideas or suggestions how to fix. I've tried switching channels and all that to no avail.

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[Mikey47]

Lol, same thing here. Works great everywhere in our house except constantly drops in our bedroom. Ironically our bedroom is directly above our wireless router in our basement.

 

[imtravis]

Mine used to when I ran my wireless rear speakers on my surround sound.. Once I added a 5GHz network into the mix, it cleared that problem right up.

 

[Gehrbox]

Many cordless phones and wireless routers work at 2.4GHz. If you live in an apartment it's possible that your router and your neighbors are washing over each other as well.

I've seen both cause wifi to drop off on an iPad.

 

[NastyNeil]

I live in a house and it is only in the room that I am in the most that this happens.

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[wmurch3]

I'm experiencing this too. It's pretty annoying and happens randomly it seems.

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[kiwicarlos741]

Do you experience this with other WiFi devices like a laptop or something else of that manner

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[NastyNeil]

No, not at all. Nothing else gives me this problem. I didn't have the problem with my EVO 3D. I hope an update fixes things, because the one room that I am in most of the day is the only place that I experience this problem. My router is in my basement. I spend most of my day on the middle floor of my house. The basement and upstairs of my house never drop or cut out of the wifi, only the second floor.

 

[NastyNeil]

I completely shut down my laptop and now I am not having any drops at all. Interesting. It has never been a problem before.

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[Darth Mo]

Try changing channels on your router.

I used this app: https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ps.amped&feature=search_result&token=pjWXbCx5.

And found that there were four other WiFi signals on the same channel and I would experienced dropouts. Changed to a channel that had no other signals and the dropouts stopped.

 

[Anthonicia]

Try changing channels on your router.

I used this app: https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ps.amped&feature=search_result&token=aLUZKE69.

And found that there were four other WiFi signals on the same channel and I would experienced dropouts. Changed to a channel that had no other signals and the dropouts stopped.

Was going to say the exact same thing, but your link didn't work for me. I use WiFi analyzer to identify issues on a regular basis for IT work. Free apps I find on the market work better than .exe programs for the pc. Plus it is mobile.

Ran into a linksys WiFi issue where phone will connect some days, other times it will stick on getting ip address. Really had me stumped for awhile since I thought the problem lied within router. Or maybe dhcp issue. Well, gave it a static ip and now have no issues with WiFi.

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[NastyNeil]

I am pretty good with this kind of stuff, but I am not sure how to give mine a static ip. Anyone care to walk me through it?

 

[Anthonicia]

I am pretty good with this kind of stuff, but I am not sure how to give mine a static ip. Anyone care to walk me through it?

Search the market for ipconfig so u can get the information I'm going to attempt to post below. U also should get an app called WiFi manager. The customization it offers is deeper than stock. Allows for a better connection.

Is ur phone on WiFi now thru dhcp? What I had to do was copy the ipconfig info from my laptop since the phone wouldn't be issued a ip address thru dhcp.

U basically copy the info from the ip config over to the WiFi manager connection. Long press on your router and it should bring up the option for manual ip or something of the sort.

Also, please don't copy my addresses in my post. I know ur smart enough not to, but sometimes it happens.

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[NastyNeil]

Thank you for the reply and suggestions. I am going to try that. Annoyingly enough there was a firmware update to my router last night and as soon as I did it and installed it, it fried my router and now I have to wait 3days to be shipped a new one. Thank god 3g speeds are very good in my area.

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[NastyNeil]

Well, I tried this, and assigned a static IP address, and even after the OTA I still am having this issue in my house and only my house. Interestingly enough when I last posted in this thread, that very night my wifi router crashed, so I had to go back to my old very spotty and dated Linksys router. I hooked it up, and connected it, and although I didn't get as good of coverage throughout my house, it never dropped. I got my new Belkin replacement router in the mail yesterday. The coverage is great and signal very strong, but it is still dropping out every so often. Not as much as it was before the update, but still enough to be annoying. It is a Belkin Wireless Dual-Band N+ Router. N750 DB. I just don't get why this router, that seems to be so much better than my old one, is having this problem? Is there a certain way I need to set up the router? Also, when I use the wifi Analyzer app, it is showing my that my best channels to use would be 12, 13, or 14, but my router only lets me choose up to channel 11. Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.

 

[NastyNeil]

Someone? Anyone? Lol

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