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Phone doesn't work right with new wifi
Smrtnik
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Hello,
I recently got a new router because my old one died. We have a lot of networked devices (personal phones, work phone, laptop, kindle, kid's school tablet, thermostat, 2 chromecasts, etc...). Right around the same time, the personal phones (2 Pixel 4a) had a system update. And i noticed the internet went to crap on the phones, but only on wifi, was just fine on mobile.
At first i blamed it on the system update because literally every other device i tried in the house was fine. But then i tried the laptop, and it was having the same issue. Googling suggested the network card in laptop was very old so i bought a USB network card/antenna and it was fine after that. Then, my mom was visiting one day and brought her much newer laptop, but she had the same issue, and plugging in that USB antenna solved it. And then i took my phone to a friend's house and the wifi was fine. And also my phone was fine on my mom's apartment wifi.
So that has now firmly convinced me it's the new router. It's a pretty fancy one, supports two 5Ghz and two 2Ghz wifi channels, lots of configuration options. My guess is that there is some option turned on that doesn't work with Pixel 4a wifi. Any ideas what it could be?
What i mean by crappy wifi internet: pages take a minute to load that on other wifi pr mobile take seconds. YouTube preview images likewise. But if i go to speedtest website, it tells me i have 200MB down and 20 up.
I recently got a new router because my old one died. We have a lot of networked devices (personal phones, work phone, laptop, kindle, kid's school tablet, thermostat, 2 chromecasts, etc...). Right around the same time, the personal phones (2 Pixel 4a) had a system update. And i noticed the internet went to crap on the phones, but only on wifi, was just fine on mobile.
At first i blamed it on the system update because literally every other device i tried in the house was fine. But then i tried the laptop, and it was having the same issue. Googling suggested the network card in laptop was very old so i bought a USB network card/antenna and it was fine after that. Then, my mom was visiting one day and brought her much newer laptop, but she had the same issue, and plugging in that USB antenna solved it. And then i took my phone to a friend's house and the wifi was fine. And also my phone was fine on my mom's apartment wifi.
So that has now firmly convinced me it's the new router. It's a pretty fancy one, supports two 5Ghz and two 2Ghz wifi channels, lots of configuration options. My guess is that there is some option turned on that doesn't work with Pixel 4a wifi. Any ideas what it could be?
What i mean by crappy wifi internet: pages take a minute to load that on other wifi pr mobile take seconds. YouTube preview images likewise. But if i go to speedtest website, it tells me i have 200MB down and 20 up.
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Edit- could probably post this in the networking thread in Moe's, a sub forum of g&t and get more eyes on it as well.
I have that setting on "automatic", figuring the router is figuring out the least used one, but maybe not.
But also, many of the devices seem unaffected, which i wouldn't expect if that was the issue.
Not all encryption works with all devices.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/842etl/how_i_fixed_my_5ghz_wifi_issues/
That's the only solution I could really find for you. The other thing to check is like deathnote said, make sure it's not WPA3 (even though it seems like your phone should support).
No idea why.
You can't give someone a pirate ship in one game, and then take it back in the next game. It's rude.
Thing 1: the router came with an app to use for admin, so you could admin from other than desktop. It seems the app was autochoosing the network to join, but something may have been screwy about it. I uninstalled the app, which let me put in actual wifi credentials.
Thing 2: once i was on actual wifi i had to set it to use actual hardware MAC instead of randomizing each time it connects (a security feature apparently?) since i whitelist in router by MAC. None of these options were available when the app was filling it in.
Now everything is great!