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hermanw7's avatar
hermanw7
Aspirant
May 03, 2018

Google Chrome, Orbi and Apple AirPlay somehow causing issues

Hi all,

 

Whenever on 5 Ghz Wifi on my (recent) MacBook (with up-to-date OSX) googling something in Google Chrome, my AirPlay connection to my wired Apple TV cuts out. Connection is otherwise fine throughout the house, and this doesn't happen when I use Incognito browsing. I've tried logging out of all Google services on Chrome, but this doesn't seem to do anything. AirPlay for some reason doesn't cut out whenever I google something in incognito browsing. Does anyone have a clue what might be going on here? Is using Google somehow taking all my bandwidth? I'm on a 400/40 mbit connection, so it shouldn't be. This problem also doesn't happen when using AirPlay from any other device.

 

Thanks in advance!

Troubleshooting

3 Replies

  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User
    May 03, 2018

    Does this happen with any other browsers? IE11, FF or Opera?

    Disable MIMO, Daisy Chain and Fast Roaming to test...

     

    • hermanw7's avatar
      hermanw7
      Aspirant
      May 03, 2018

      Switching off MIMO, Daisy Chain and Fast Roaming don't seem to make any difference.

       

      I don't have any of these browsers installed, but in Safari, it doesn't happen either. Puzzling, right? Must be some kind of Google service causing this?

  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User
    May 03, 2018

    Possibly. Google is know for doing shady things with there browers. I don't use Chrome at all personally unless for testing.

     

    Use Safari for a while and see how it goes. Try one of the other browers and see if you notice the problem as well. There mabye some Chrome features causing problems.