Testing for Root Cause Severe Latency on a Wireless Network

earnshae · Nov 3, 2015

Thanks for reading my thread.

I apologize if I have missed a similar thread I searched but did not find the answer I have been looking for.

For the last month on my home network I have been having problems with mobile devices.

I think the problem is limited to wireless traffic.

How would I go about diagnosing the problem?

Could it be a case off two many wifi routers in the area on the same channel?

bill001g · Nov 3, 2015

Unless you want to spend lots of money for spectrum analysis equipment you really can't tell for sure what is causing the interference. It is both the routers and the end clients on the channel. All you can really see is the ssid broadcast of routers. Those do not really have much relationship to how much traffic a router using. A idle router would look the same as one running at maximum speed. You also have security cameras, baby monitors and many other devices using the wireless spectrum.

Still it really doesn't matter the fix is always the same. You try other channels and see if you get lucky. Other people are also doing that so it may work one minute and break the next as other people also try to change the channels. Generally your best bet in a congested area is to run on the 5g band and run with 20mhz channels. This means you will limit your top speed but generally running 1 channel with little interference is better than using 802.11ac and attempting to get 4 consecutive channels with no one interfering. Still in area with very high user density there is little you can do. The so called tri-band routers you see will allow a single person to attempt to use almost all the channels both on the 5g and 2.4g band. You get a couple of people doing this and pretty much everyone just stomps all over each other.

g90814 · Nov 4, 2015

If you have an android phone or tablet, there is a free app called 'wifi analyzer'

It will show you all the networks in your area, and you can then see if you're having issues with overlapping channels, or too many networks in general.

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