I don’t know too much about routers and how wifi works, but my parents bought a “gaming” router a year back or so and it’s been absolutely amazing, even all the way from my room which is at the opposite end of the house. Thing is, when I’d take some time off from college to hop on my Playstation, the TV in the living room would lag when they tried to watch football or movies so, one day they messed with it somehow. They made two wi-fi networks to connect to: “Template” and “Template5G” and they said they’re moving the “better wifi” to 5G and only the TV could use it. It worked for a while but now… goddamn. A 10GB update for a game I have takes 3 hours or so now. Even the TV doesn’t work and the wifi is just super slow and sometimes will spike and completely not work from time to time. I even recommended to my dad that maybe if we put the router higher in the room, we’d get better connection? So, they taped/nailed it behind the top of the TV and called it a day. Anyways, I need some help… I don’t even mind if ya’ll use words I don’t understand, I’ll learn. Thanks for reading ;

Edit: I don’t know if this is important but it also sttes we have “weak security” under our wifi networks.

TL;DR my parents messed with some wifi settings and now it doesn’t act right/it’s slower for everyone

  • Immrsbdud@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Man oh man, Wi-Fi is an arcane, dark, and hardly understood art of radio waves, materials science, and of course IP networking. Really, it will be hard to give you good advice without a site survey. I have fixed WiFi professionally for companies more than a few times over my life. So I’m going to give you some pointers on how you can go about discovering the issue. Don’t worry, it isn’t too technical, just common sense is needed :)

    1. Connect your phone to the same WiFi network as the PlayStation. Stand next to the PlayStation. Run a speed test on your phone, and the PlayStation.

    2. If there is a difference, like the phone is much faster, then the issue probably lies with the PlayStation / TV. If this is the case let me know and I can walk you through next steps.

    3. If there is no difference, then the Wi-Fi signal isn’t strong enough there. A fix for that would be a Ethernet to power line adapter connected to a Wi-Fi repeater. Easy things to google and find cheap.