That's basically it. Every time my parents turn off the TV in the living room before going to bed, for some reason the internet in my house stops working. The only way to get it working again is to unplug the router and plug it back in.

Does anyone know why this might be happening?

I need someone to tell me im not paranoid! An old Dell latitude e6500 was connected to my wifi (last used 2 hours ago) i have only had wifi for like a month and a half, and havent even had any visitors in my apartment since ive moved here.

Is it crazy to think someone has been inside my apartment without my knowledge? From my understanding the only other way to get on the wifi without the password is to use the actual router/modem.

Just had cable internet replaced with fiber internet. The fiber internet company installed an Eero wifi router to replace my Netgear Nighthawk router. Less than 30 minutes later, I'm sitting outside and an entire bat colony that lives under one of our eaves flew out from where they shelter. It's the middle of the day, which makes this extremely odd behavior. There has to be some kind of connection to the new wifi, no? Any thoughts?

So I have an Asus Rog Strix laptop from 2023. And it seemed normal for most of it, despite having a faulty drive it was doing everything fine.

One day I opened it up and I was unable to connect to the internet, I was genuinely confused. I am currently reinstalling windows if it could help at all.

If anyone has suggestions please do let me know! x

Greetings, I am having some difficulty various samsung phones (S24, S25, A17) at a specific location. This location is a suburban area where the official T-Mobile map (https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/coverage-map) shows dark purple (5g Ultra capacity), but the phones will not stay connected, this is both indoors and outside. They periodically go into emergency only mode. I have taken the phones to the local T-Mobile retail store and changed the SIM, but still the same issue. At this point I am planning building a solid WiFi network so we can use WiFi calling. What is the best router and access points for this application? I have experience with networking but just not specific for WiFi calling.

From the UK, the issue isnt a drop in speed but that thw wifi just completely drops out from multiple devices (only have 6 connectedto the wifi) most of which in the same room as the router only a few feet away. I have tried speaking to our provider and they say our connection to the broadband is fine and they can detect 0 faults on their end so I have gone through every avenue they suggested of trying to reset and resolve the problem but it persists. We have had a new router and it still continues. It happens at random at any time of day, sometimes for just a moment sometimes for 20 minutes.

If anyone has any ideas as to what may resolve this id be extremely grateful.

Xiaomi BE6500

Hello everyone, I'm thinking of buying the Xiaomi be6500, it seems powerful for its 100$ reasonable price, if any of you tested it, is it actually good in the real world ? Wall penetration, peak speeds, managing clients, etc ...

Thank you

there is a cross on my wifi and im not able to forget the network either. can anyone help with this? ive been using this network on this laptop for a few years the problem just started very suddenly around a week ago. Ive tried to disable and then enable the network because i’m not able to forget this wifi in particular, but nothing has worked so far.

Hi everyone,
I'm responsible for the wireless infrastructure across approximately 50 warehouse locations. These are mostly open-space warehouses ranging from 2,000 m² to 12,000 m².
Our environment consists primarily of Zebra handheld scanners, a few PCs, and a very high density of Wi-Fi clients. In some areas we have up to 100 scanners connected to a single AP. Traffic volume is relatively low, but the devices generate frequent transactions and are highly latency-sensitive.
Today we operate around 600 FortiAPs (mostly 231F, with newer 443K models being deployed). All SSIDs are running in tunnel mode through FortiGate controllers.
Over the years, I've had multiple firmware upgrades break AP stability or functionality. I also find FortiAP optimization and troubleshooting quite challenging without specialized tools (we're still waiting for approval to purchase an Ekahau survey kit). In general, tuning FortiAP deployments often feels like rocket science.
As a test, I deployed a Ruckus R670 at one of our largest facilities. Since then, I basically haven't heard a single complaint from that site. On another location, a Fortinet wireless engineer spent considerable time tuning the FortiAP configuration, and the network now performs much better there as well.
This leaves me facing a strategic decision over the next few years: should we stay with the more cost-effective FortiAP ecosystem, or gradually migrate to Ruckus?
My current opinion favors Ruckus because:
Wi-Fi is their core business.

Technologies like BeamFlex seem to provide a real-world RF advantage, especially in large open warehouse environments.

The platform appears more forgiving and easier to operate.

My limited experience so far has been extremely positive.

For those of you managing large warehouse or logistics environments, what would you do?
Stay with FortiAP and invest more time into design, surveys, and tuning?

Migrate to Ruckus despite the higher cost?

Have you compared both in high-density barcode scanner environments?

I'd love to hear real-world experiences, especially from logistics, distribution centers, or manufacturing facilities.
Thanks!

I have my gaming set up in my room next the the WiFi in the living room but I struggle to get any WiFi I’ve tried literally everything you can think of it’s been about a week and even my phone bugs in my room it’s been on and off like this for two months but never this bad

edit: SOLVED!

Thank you to u/Fresh_Inside_6982 for finding exactly what I was looking for: https://www.amazon.com/BrosTrend-600Mbps-Adapter-Wireless-WNA016/dp/B0118SPFCK

Original post:

I am looking for a device that you can connect to wifi and then plug an Ethernet cable directly in, but I do not want to use a "wifi extender" that repeats the current signal or creates a second wifi network. The signal throughout the house is great and I don't want to complicate things.

I have a 15 year-old device that is struggling to connect to wifi these days. It only has 2.4ghz band, and even though the signal strength is 100% it just struggles to stay connected. The Ethernet port works fine, has no connection issues, and it runs much faster when plugged in anyways.

The house it is located in is a rental, so running a cable drop isn't an option at this time.

I don't want to spend $100 or program my own mini router. LOL

Hi i have a tmobile router (g5ar-1) and its not the best for gaming, especially in my room, I just kinda would like help to better it, most of my games say its latency issues to just full on lagging me out

Hi. I am looking to get a Wi-Fi signal to a place with no power outlet. Ideally, I would want the hotspot to work a week at a time before changing/charging the battery.

Any ideas on how this would be possible or a product you recommend?

Thanks.

Hello Techsupporters! Thanks for helping me out! So i use google chrome and ocasionally opera GX on my 2023 [i think] lenovo laptop. Now, randomly my wifi will cut out and it can range from a few seconds to a whole minute, its really random. HOWEVER, i ONLY experience this when i'm using my browser. When i'm playing a game it just doesn't disconect. i know its not a router thing since i live with other people who use laptops and their wifi is perfectly fine. I tried most of the usual fixes, preventing the wifi driver from being turned off in battery saver, flushing DNS and restarting my computer, clearing out saved google data, and its helping but not solving the issue. is there something i'm missing here?

Had issues with Airties 4920, traded in for 4960, this one comes with an app. Self care scan says "Poor Link Quality Detected" with the message "wi-fi link capacity is low for <device>" for all my devices. It says contact my ISP provider, but wondering if anyone here has any quick insight on what I can do to remedy this error. Thanks.

I don't know why, but it's literally walking through the door and just poof, the connection drops instantly.

Of course I can't use internet for calls, videos, fast downloads or online games, and I've been using my laptop in the living room, where the router is, because of that. I tried to buy a WiFi repeater/extender (I don't know how it's called in English) so it could reach my room, but it's even worse because it messes with the connection of other devices when it's turned on and doesn't even work or the upgrade is barely noticeable.

My father refuses to use an ethernet cable because it's too much work. He's telling me to buy one of the things in the picture above, but I'm afraid it will be just as useless as the repeater/extender. None of my parents want me to use the computer in the living room, specially because they're either watching the TV or trying to rest/sleep and they don't want me to be noisy if I'm in call with friends for example.

What should I do?

"Separation of Wi-Fi networks (not recommended)

Note that the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks must be separated.

The Wi-Fi performance of your devices (including any Bbox Repeaters) will no longer be optimized. You will need to re-pair your Repeater."

That's the *translated* message that displays on my wifi admin panel in my browser when I am about to separate the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. I'm considering doing this b/c apparently only the 5 GHz bands are available for my devices currently, and there's an HP printer that needs the 2.4 GHz in order to work. . . .

Could somebody please explain what the above message means? The caveats? And what is entailed for me to "re-pair" the "Repeater?" I'm not even sure if that means *fix* or more *re-couple*. . . .

Many thanks in advance!

P.S. The Wifi hardware is a bbox sensation fast5330B. . . . But since this is w/ an ISP in France and all their help guides are of course in French, I'm struggling. Some things are getting lost in the technical web translations, and the best guide I think I located is a scanned PDF which is problematic for most translation apps.

I'm having a problem with SteamOs that wifi disconnects when I'm using 5g, I turn off all the save power management, but its still disconnecting and reconnecting, is really annoying
If I use the 2.4 version is stable.

Does anyone have the same problem? knows how to fix it?

Hello all, I take care of my mom and we are in a new nursing home but with their WiFi you have to accept the T&C in order for it to work. This is causing an issue since the TV has to be reconnected everyday… the camera the facility has a specific WiFi for but the TV goes on the public browser… if I am not there everyday which I do go but after work, so all day she can’t really watch her shows/movies until
I get there, of course the staff can do it but that would be asking too much… I tried hotspot it was a terrible idea lol…

Any suggestions or help on how to bypass this? If we can have it connected forever it will be okay if not guess I’ll have to get the monthly WiFi plan from a cell phone provider… also I will try to call Roku as well, hope I get an actual person, thanks in advance!

Happened for a while after receiving my laptop (2nd Hand). At first i tried connecting it over our home WiFi (GFiber) and it connected but when we open Google Chrome and open Facebook there, it took a while then the WiFi disappears, then comes back again. And it does that again and again. I tried fixing it, updating wireless drivers, all sorts of knick knacks but wala pa din. I use my brothers phone hotspot while connected to the same internet and it works. My phone doesn't have that so i used NetBridge (some games wont allow me to play). It work also on our school WiFi. I've been dealing with this for a while and wanting it to be fixed.

Help is appreciated, Thanks.

Howdy,
Reception in my office is horrid. The company gives us access to general “guest” WiFi but my office is across the street from main hub so the connectivity is incredibly spotty. Looked into Roamfi but saw some reviews that said go through cellular provider for mobile hotspot (have Verizon). I’ve never had this situation before so curious to folks thoughts on best route for WiFi connection. TIA!

ETA: Curious to hear folks thoughts/opinions about portable/private WiFi devices. I’ve never had to look into one I’ve also had stable WiFi connection (first world problems I know) so this is a new inquiry for me.

Recién me instalan un proveedor de wifi en mi ciudad y desde que lo instalaron la señal llega sin inconvenientes a mi laptop pero a los teléfonos no llega la velocidad que corresponde (200mb) y solo sucede en los teléfonos...alguna solución?

Ya llevo 3 visitas técnicas y nada

Hi y'all, I've been dealing with readings like this for like a year now. Insane drops of all the networks my devices can see at seemingly random times. I used the Xfinity Gateway for a while, had it replaced multiple times and thought upgrading to a 3rd party router would help but alas, it has continued.

No rhyme or reason to the drops except sometimes when I line gaming if my character is too close to other people's avatars, though that's not consistent.

I'd appreciate any insight, thank you!

Converting a metal shed into a home office for my wife and I. It’s around 20 ft from the house. In the research I have done it seems like using a TP-Link CPE210 (or something similar) or Mesh Extenders would be the best options. We currently have TMobile 5G and even in other rooms in our small house it can struggle.

Thoughts on which would be the best? Other options that would be better than these? Both of us will be working fully remote and we will use the shed as a family room at times to stream movies/shows.