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x917
Neighbour
5 years ago

Disabling SmartSteering and Optik TV

I have Telus fibre Internet and Optik TV with 3 STBs -- 1 wired and 2 wireless. I am interested in disabling the SmartSteering feature on my supplied T3200M modem in order to hopefully address some is...
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x917
Neighbour
5 years ago

Thank you for the reassurance. I just disabled it and set things up the same way. Everything seems to be fine, except the WiFi link speeds on my phones seem to be lower overall with the frequencies separated than I remember them being with SmartSteering enabled. I don't feel any usage difference in the speeds though, so I'm not sure what to think of it yet.

 

Connectivity of Apple products to my wireless network with SmartSteering enabled was actually one of the issues I was dealing with, but now they have no problems connecting to the separate 2.4 GHz network. Hopefully this addresses my other issues as well.

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RonAKA
Rockstar
5 years ago

I also used a simple program called WifiInfoView to view the WiFi traffic and to pick a less busy channel to use. Options, Channel Summary Mode is a convenient way to look at the data. High use close to your home can slow things down. 

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