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Smart Home Issues
Looking for advice... I have my home set up with a number of smart home devices...well dozens and dozens actually. We just got upgraded to a fibre connection this last summer and I am now on the 1G ...
Before you go to the effort/expense of getting a new router have you tried assigning a different channel for your 2.4 GHz network? It's possible the current channel the router is using is congested (all your neighbors WiFi's on the same channel).
Not myself personally, but that has been one of the ‘fixes’ applied by TELUS in the past and while it, along with other tweaks made, do fix the issues for a period, they always seem to come back. The thought of manually changing the Wi-Fi channel regularly isn’t exactly appealing…I was hoping that a better router would potentially provide a more consistent and interruption free Wi-Fi, but I guess if Wi-Fi interference is a possible source of the problem then maybe you are right…
Is there a way to minimize Wi-Fi channel interference, or is there a router which can reconfigure the channel automatically based upon how free/uninterrupted the available channels are? My other worry is that sometimes some of the smart home devices need to be manually reconnected to the WiFI when some of related configurations change, and if that had to be done every time the WiFi channel was changed, my outlook on smart home would be drastically diminished…
Is there a way to minimize Wi-Fi channel interference, or is there a router which can reconfigure the channel automatically based upon how free/uninterrupted the available channels are? My other worry is that sometimes some of the smart home devices need to be manually reconnected to the WiFI when some of related configurations change, and if that had to be done every time the WiFi channel was changed, my outlook on smart home would be drastically diminished…
You do not need to do anything with configured devices when you change the WiFi channel. Determining the channel the client device needs to use is part of the connection process.
Unfortunately we don't have control of when our neighbours get a new router or how many they operate. If channel congestion is part of your issue then there is nothing practical you can do to prevent it. You could shield your house in a Faraday cage to block external RF but that's not practical.
Are your 5 GHz devices experiencing the same issue or is it just the 2.4 GHz ones?
