WiFi issues - my findings

[Doughnut]

Hi all,

Just sharing my findings.

Some of you are having issues with the wifi connection sticking or dropping despite the phone reporting it to be connected.

Turning WiFi on and off sorts it out momentarily or closing and opening the app helps it.

I've found the issue for me is that my home router has combined SSIDs for the 2.4/5ghz bands, I could easily separate the two, but politics doesn't allow me to do it...

Anyway since Android has removed the ability to force use of bands, I've found the connection keeps switching between the 2.4ghz and 5ghz band and it needs a refresh via opening and closing an app, or turning WiFi on and off.

So I'm using Swifi from the app store and told it to force 5ghz use, and magically all my problems with sticky wifi have disappeared.

 

[Doughnut]

Ok so some further investigation, Swifi works on ID name, and despite asking it to utilise the 5ghz band, it went back to 2.4 and my problems started again. But it's not the fault of the app, it's my retarded setup at blame.

So I blacklisted my U11 on the 2.4ghz band via the MAC filter, thus forcing it to only be able to communicate via the 5ghz band...and this is the longest I've been able to use my wifi at home without it crapping itself out.

Though I have to say this is the first time I've experienced this problem, and I've used loads of different devices at home and not forced them to be on either band...e.g. Google Pixel C tablet, Dell 5175 tablet, Lenovo Yoga S1, Lenovo Zuk Z2, iPads, other mobile devices etc...so something funky is going on with the U11 for sure.

It sounds like I could just separate the SSIDs and that's true but when you have a retarded sibling who insists they need to be combined so he can have maximum wifis when outside his dungeon for all of 5 minutes per day/literally ...

I'm glad I'm moving out soon.

Anywho, guys it seems my problems with WiFi was around competing bands under the same SSIDs...

Edit:

My WiFi problems are officially over, forcing it to a single band has fixed the weeks of frustration, awesome.