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Smart Wifi, driving me mad!

dchecksfield — Mon, 03 May 2021 09:02:01 GMT

I have a Georgian house with thick stone walls so I have Smart Wifi with 3 discs. Normally they all play nicely however of late (in the last week or two) the connection to the discs has been dropping (resulting in red lights on the smart discs), when they are connected, sometimes the signal is fine, other times the wifi signal is there but there is no connection to the internet.

I'm losing my mind as I've tried everything I can think of. I've changed channels, tried changing channels on the sky Q, turned off my hive system to discount interference, etc.

Is anyone else having these issues? I'm at the point where i'm considering putting powerlines in to lan connect the wifi discs and turn the 5G off.

Re: Smart Wifi, driving me mad!

Pezza91 — Mon, 03 May 2021 09:10:00 GMT

How are you connecting these discs? Ethernet or Wifi?

Re: Smart Wifi, driving me mad!

dchecksfield — Mon, 03 May 2021 09:41:01 GMT

The discs are initially connected via lan to "pair them" after that they are wifi'd as part of a mesh network I understand. The should essentially act as repeaters so I'm led to believe.

Re: Smart Wifi, driving me mad!

XRaySpeX — Mon, 03 May 2021 10:25:58 GMT

Where's 5G come into it? Which EE router have you?

Re: Smart Wifi, driving me mad!

dchecksfield — Mon, 03 May 2021 10:27:01 GMT

Sorry - 5Ghz...

Re: Smart Wifi, driving me mad!

XRaySpeX — Mon, 03 May 2021 10:36:51 GMT

OIC!

Re: Smart Wifi, driving me mad!

Pezza91 — Mon, 03 May 2021 11:23:01 GMT

Might be worth pairing one of them by LAN cable see if that improves things? I know that sounds counter-intuitive but I had to do this for one of my clients in his barn.