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What’s your first step when Wi-Fi becomes unstable?
I’ve experienced random drops and inconsistent speeds without clear error messages. Before replacing hardware, how do you usually narrow down the cause? I’d like to understand common troubleshooting ...
One helpful tool would be to check what your neighbors' wifi is on what channels so that your wifi doesn't overlap and cause interference between each other's wifi. There's an app called wifi analyzer for free on your cell phone, I've used that. Another thing, sometimes new firmware has bugs that makes your wifi worse than it was, and I've had that happen before. If that happens I manually roll back the firmware to something that worked and I turn off the automatic updates on my router.
I forgot to add, sometimes you just need to restart your router and modem once in a while. I would normally do it every month or so.