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Shinyboat
Feb 22, 2021Tutor
R6400v2 Choppy Calls & Some Devices No Connection
My router is about 3 years old. Since COVID, I have been working at home and noticed I have choppy audio in/out on Teams calls on approximately 1 of every 10-20 calls. I have run speed tests while bad calls are happening and usually have 20-50mb connections. My router is upstairs and my laptop is downstairs. I have been running on the 2.4 band as it seems more reliable. I did a test one day and was 120mb hardwired, 75mb WiFi next to the router and 75mb WiFi downstairs (virtually identical). The choppy audio calls occur when we aren’t streaming or putting a heavy load on. I have tried turning off incoming and outgoing video when this happens with no change.
The second issue is occasionally our iphones won’t be able to use the internet for a couple of minutes while we are watching the fire stick. The firestick never skips a beat but we often have to turn WiFi off and back on on the phones.
I have the following devices: iPhone 4ea, iPad 1ea, laptop 3ea, tv 1ea, fire stick 1ea, WiFi receptacle 1ea, and printer 1ea. There are only 2 of us at home 90% of the time and when we experience problems. We have identitified the problems still happen when neither of us is steaming.
I’ve had multiple people from Comcast test our cable and router including resetting with no change. I’ve also unpowered/repowered all equipment abd devices abd disconnected and reconnected dozens of times.
The first issue is a big deal because it may jeopardize continuing to work at home. Are there settings I can change or should I change out for a mesh system?
The second issue is occasionally our iphones won’t be able to use the internet for a couple of minutes while we are watching the fire stick. The firestick never skips a beat but we often have to turn WiFi off and back on on the phones.
I have the following devices: iPhone 4ea, iPad 1ea, laptop 3ea, tv 1ea, fire stick 1ea, WiFi receptacle 1ea, and printer 1ea. There are only 2 of us at home 90% of the time and when we experience problems. We have identitified the problems still happen when neither of us is steaming.
I’ve had multiple people from Comcast test our cable and router including resetting with no change. I’ve also unpowered/repowered all equipment abd devices abd disconnected and reconnected dozens of times.
The first issue is a big deal because it may jeopardize continuing to work at home. Are there settings I can change or should I change out for a mesh system?
4 Replies
Does it happen if you're hardwired into the router?
The goal is to determine if its a wireless issue, a router issue, or just a teams issue.
What firmware are you on?
What modem/gateway is it connected to?
You got me thinking. On my lunchbreak I ran some tests using the following websites. The ring central doesnt have download/upload speeds based on the test I ran. I noticed similar jitters in the two different tests.
I not a wifi guy so I dont claim to know how good my tests were. I ran back to back tests. My guess is the jitter on wifi is causing the issue based on a REALLY small sample of tests. Doing reading it looks like jitter greater than 3ms can start to cause prolems with >20ms breaking the audio. I will try and run these tests when audio starts breaking again but the timing is really bad since I am usually in important calls when it starts breaking up.
Date
Connection
Location
Download
Upload
Jitter
Latency
Notes
1/21 9PM
Wifi
Same Floor few rooms down
60ms
1/22 1PM
Wifi
Downstairs
20ms
1/22 1PM
Wifi
Next to router
3ms
1/22 1PM
Hardwired
113
6
3ms
30ms
Changed connection, tested internet, ran test
1/22 1PM
Wifi
Next to router
71
6
6ms
30ms
Changed connection, tested internet, ran test
1/22 1PM
Hardwired
119
6
2ms
28ms
Changed connection, tested internet, ran test
1/22 1PM
Wifi
Next to router
40ms
31ms
Changed connection, tested internet, ran test
1/22 1PM
Wifi
Next to router
7
6
49ms
32ms
Ran test a second time
1/22 1PM
Wifi
Downstairs
76
4ms
30ms
Moved downstairs
What should be my next step?
Also my router has the current firmware.
What actual firmare version is it?
What modem/gateway is it connected to?
Do your testing on the 5ghz and not 2.4ghz. 2.4ghz is more sensitive to interference.