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Netgear XR500 Lagging but only during the daytime
My gaming internet connection is mainly solid but suffers from numerous lag spikes but only during the daytime. At nighttime, it's litearlly perfect, not a single lag spike. I've read somewhere that the reason for this because the wifi channel gets used by many people around my area during the day and becomes less used at night. If this is indeed the case, what wifi channel(s) should I switch over to for 2.4hz and 5 hz to ensure perfect connections with no interruptions from other users during the daytime?
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- There is a free WiFi Analyzer on the Microsoft Store for Windows called WiFi Analyzer, you can use that to identify the channels that aren't being used as much. You can then change to those on the WiFi settings of the router and see if that improves it
Thanks for the hasty reply, I'll go test it out later tonight when I'm back home :)
- This could be numerous things.Could be high utilisation on your isp network try doing speedtest wired if possible every hour or 2 too see what your getting. Or interference of certain devices or neighbours routers but if smart channel changing is selected it should try to eliminate that.
