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Gigabit Fibre Internet with 4 Boosters Randomly drops to sub 2Mbps speeds on Wifi - HELP
I am having some super annoying speed-dropping issues with my gigabit internet. I have spoke with at least 4 different techs who all provide random advice (conflicting at times) but nothing seems to...
- I don’t have a great suggestion for you, (I use eero) but yes it is possible for a misbehaving device to tank network speeds. Sometimes this can happen even if the device doesn’t have your wifi password. For example there is an IoT chipset that will sometimes try connecting to a nearby network for which it doesn’t have the password. It does this so quickly it effectively causes a wifi authentication attack, blocking service for legitimate clients.
If I were you I’d turn off one of the boosters and leave it off until it happens again. If you get the slow speed, try turning off a different booster. Turn off as many clients as possible too and see if you still have the problem. This is probably not going to be too fun if it’s a rare problem.
I don’t have a great suggestion for you, (I use eero) but yes it is possible for a misbehaving device to tank network speeds. Sometimes this can happen even if the device doesn’t have your wifi password. For example there is an IoT chipset that will sometimes try connecting to a nearby network for which it doesn’t have the password. It does this so quickly it effectively causes a wifi authentication attack, blocking service for legitimate clients.
If I were you I’d turn off one of the boosters and leave it off until it happens again. If you get the slow speed, try turning off a different booster. Turn off as many clients as possible too and see if you still have the problem. This is probably not going to be too fun if it’s a rare problem.
If I were you I’d turn off one of the boosters and leave it off until it happens again. If you get the slow speed, try turning off a different booster. Turn off as many clients as possible too and see if you still have the problem. This is probably not going to be too fun if it’s a rare problem.
