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2.4ghz is slow, 5ghz is perfect.
Hello, recently i've been having trouble with our home internet speed. We have a 250mbps plan from Xfinity. 5ghz is perfectly fine while 2.4 is not. To try to help fix it I enabled 20/40 coexistence ...
See, thats the thing. We didn't have a problem with 2.4ghz a few weeks ago. Its only now that its become a problem. My father insists on having the router in his room (because his pc is in there, where he plays iRacing over ethernet), which happens to be on only one end of the house making it impossible to get 5ghz on the other end. My room is in the center of the house, where the router should be placed and where I have preached for him to move it to the center. The house is made of mainly just plaster and concrete and we aren't located close enough to other neighbors to have interference from that, but again, I didn't have a problem with this a few weeks ago. Also, whenever I do a speedtest on the Nighthawk app, is it testing it from the device or checking it through the router?
gagestemper wrote:See, thats the thing. We didn't have a problem with 2.4ghz a few weeks ago. Its only now that its become a problem. My father insists on having the router in his room (because his pc is in there, where he plays iRacing over ethernet), which happens to be on only one end of the house making it impossible to get 5ghz on the other end. My room is in the center of the house, where the router should be placed and where I have preached for him to move it to the center. The house is made of mainly just plaster and concrete and we aren't located close enough to other neighbors to have interference from that, but again, I didn't have a problem with this a few weeks ago. Also, whenever I do a speedtest on the Nighthawk app, is it testing it from the device or checking it through the router?
Just plaster and concrete? huh. I wouldn't say "just". Those 2 are literally 2 of the best blockers of wifi signal.
Again, you can try changing the wireless channel. But I'm not convinced it'll help.
it might have worked fine before and something started interfering or even just the program needing more data and you were already at the peak.
You might checking into using moca adapters (ethernet over coax), power line adapters, or a wireless extender. Keep in mind with the wireless extender that it needs a decent signal to run off and you have plaster/concrete in the home.
Sorry about my usage of the word, "just." It wasn't meant to be used in that sense. I thought there was supposed to be more than plaster and concrete in the materials in a house but of course, my mistake. I changed the channel and it did give me a somewhat substantial boost in performance. From a whole 1mb to 10, which does make streaming kind of possible. Also, I searched up a moca adapter and I was wondering, if you were to plug that into the coax in someone elses room while the router and modem is in another room, would you be able to hook a computer up to that adapter and it work?
Usually you need at least 2 (unless the router has moca built in).
1 to connect to router and one to the device you want to use.