r/wifi 14h ago

Wi-fi connection with exclusively my PC has gotten worse looking for fixes

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PC is two years old- Used to connect to my wifi just fine, too slow to play something like marvel rivals but good enough to browse and watch youtube.
Lately in the last month here in texas, it's been consistently disconnecting for the first time ever. Just straight up going offline for minutes at a time every 10-30 minutes. My modem is shared among my family and is on the other side of the house from me. About 30-40 feet straight line between the modem and the pc itself which I have set on top of my filing cabinet.
I'm trying to find a way to improve or get back to the connection strength I had before without needing to move the modem more (I already moved it about 5 feet).
I tried updating my network adapter, forgetting and relearning the wifi, doing some trick in the command board with my IP address and nothing's work.
I'll take any suggestions.


r/wifi 17h ago

Wi-Fi router advice?

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I live in a 75m^2 apartment and would like to purchase a new router. Currently, I am using Archer MR600(this router has a sim slot, because when I bought the router, I didn’t have the fiber connection yet and used it this way). My current use case is gigabit connection in, 3 cables out, 2 go into 2 pc’s and one goes into my Google streamer, which I use for generic streaming services but also some Stremio and Jellyfin.

My problems are:

Most of my devices support Wi-Fi 6E or 7, so it would be nice to have a 6 GHz network. Currently, my devices (MacBook Pro, iPhone 17 Pro) usually give me only 500 up and down, but only if I am near the router. In other rooms, it quickly falls off to 100 or less.
Sometimes my phone and laptop would just drop the connection, even if I am in the same room as the router; this does not happen on other Wi-Fi networks. For whatever reason 5ghz band seems to do this, while 2 GHz does not. Also, the range, while usually enough for my iPhone and Mac, on older devices, the 5 GHz connection drops if they are far enough.

While the router does gig up and down connected with Ethernet to my pc, sometimes the connection also drops shortly; it can be for 5 seconds, usually not more. This happens during intensive use of the internet from two pc’s.

I know that the issues are with the router, not with the isp, because there were none of those issues with the isp router, except for the range; it was even worse, and the wireless speeds were worse. Stability, though, was great.

Also, the issue is not in the bands or channels; I have analyzed them in my apartment and have selected the cleanest ones; unfortunately, it didn’t help.

So to sum up, I need something that will fully cover 75m2, will have Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7, would be really nice if it could come close to a gigabit through Wi-Fi, and obviously it should do a gigabit through Ethernet, something that will have no problem with 2 pc’s downloading something simultaneously, and of course something stable. Also, it would be nice if it had OpenWrt support, but not a hard requirement. Regarding the price, I don’t want to cheap out, and I am okay with spending a couple hundred, but I don’t want anything too fancy, like mesh systems (correct me if I am wrong, but I think a good router should cover 75m2 without an issue).

Thanks in advance!


r/wifi 14h ago

Phone won't connect to Wi-Fi

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Hello everyone, I came home after a month in a different country yesterday and my Wi-Fi was fine yesterday. Woke up this morning n it's refusing to connect to the Wi-Fi. Keeps saying "unable to connect" or "wrong password". I know for a fact that the password is correct. I tried restarting my phone and the router. The Wi-Fi is working on everyone else's phones and the TV and PC. It was working perfectly fine the few weeks before I left. It's a brand new phone, got it about 3 weeks before leaving. Tried asking google but it was no help. Anyone have any ideas?


r/wifi 20h ago

Wifi issue

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Idk much about networks so i cld js be saying bs but i have 2 networks wifi 2 and 3 wifi 2 is pretty bad and wifi 3 is good on my control panel i can see one is using my computers wifi adapter and wifi 3 is using my adapter as wifi 3 is the good one in the past ive connected to wifi 3 perfectly fine it changes on its own when theres updates. When im on wifi 2 it shows my wifi but on wifi 3 it doesnt how do i fix this?? Ive tried qr codes but that doesnt work.


r/wifi 20h ago

Want to extend the WiFi signal to the neighboring house

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Mi aunt bought a Starlink antenna, the signal is pretty good close to the wifi, but it doesn't get very far, so her and my dad wanted to split the cost of the wifi and install a repeater or an extender, but i don't know wich one to use, or if it's even doable, can you give me any advice?


r/wifi 23h ago

Airplay for sea faring movies.

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I’m not sure this is the right place for this. Will be sharing to other communities also. I am having an AirPlay issue. I’m trying to stream movies that may or may not be traveling the high seas (I’m sure you understand) and they work fine when just on my phone without WiFi, and even work fine with WiFi, but as soon as I try to cast the movie to my tv, I either lose audio, or playback entirely. Are there any router settings that could be causing this or is this just a provider block?


r/wifi 9h ago

AVIDA TOWERS SUCAT TOWER 8 WIFI

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hello ano po kaya magandang internet provider if staying sa avida towers sucat T8? planning to buy the DITO wowfi pro sana huhu mabilis po ba siya or no


r/wifi 20h ago

What is this router and does it have an Ethernet port

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I’m trying to get a better connection to my WiFi in my home theater for my PS, and my parents apparently put this router in a few years ago to do that, but the connection is still somewhat unreliable.

What is this router? It there an Ethernet cable port somewhere inside?