Post by Vir CampestrisPost by ScottI have been having problems with my Fire Stick for the last couple of
weeks with buffering and channel crashing out altogether. It says the
device is out of range (which I don't believe). I cannot see any way
to choose between 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz. I ran a speed check on the Fire
Stick and it was 3.5 Mbps. I restarted and got 7 Mbps 2.4 GHz band). I
then made some adjustments to the router, restarted again and got 73
Mbps, this time on the 5 GHz band. Any ideas?
Everything I have that needs any speed is on a wire. Including my TV.
Even Amazon will let you do that on (some of?) their devices.
<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-Ethernet-Adaptor-Remote-models/dp/B01LXP5TXI>
I've been pleasantly surprised with the performance of wifi for
accessing video files and for streaming video. Wireless N, which uses 5
GHz, is a far cry from older standards that used 2.4 GHz - or maybe the
glacial speed was due more to the wireless adaptor in my old laptop
(which could only do 2.4 GHz) compared with the one in my new laptop.
My problem is with resilience of wifi after power cuts. Our house is
rather spread out, especially for 5 GHz which has a much shorter range,
so we've needed to create a mesh network. We've got good coverage
throughout the house, but it is a real pain that the nodes have to be
spaced closely enough that they get good 5 GHz backhaul, daisy-chained
back to the router, but this means that they are spaced so closely that
they use up all the 2.4 GHz channels, since there are only three groups
channels, for example 1, 6, and 11, which don't overlap, and this means
that some nodes fail to re-connect because they get bogged down in
auto-channel negotiation if there's a power cut and then all the nodes
boot up simultaneously once the power comes back. A couple of times
we've come back from holiday to find that there's been a power cut and
so we can't tell Hive to get out house nice and warm a few hours before
we get home.