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HartsockZA
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restart the router test again, are you seeing any issues with gaming and or other activities on the network? Wireless it could be a congested channel causing the issue so restarting it would allow the router to try a different channel or log into the router and on wifi man you can test which channel is best for your home and manually switch to that via the router wifi dashboard.
@HartsockZA
We have a rather elongated house, so wifi in the front does not reach to the back properly.
So I have 2 x ruijie access points each with
Kids connect to 1 and myself to 2.
I noticed an issue whilst playing chess this morning where it warns me about being disconnected every few seconds.
We have a rather elongated house, so wifi in the front does not reach to the back properly.
So I have 2 x ruijie access points each with
| 2.4GHZ | 5GHZ | ||
| Ruijie 1 | Bandwidth | 20Mhz | 80Mhz |
| Channel | 1 | 36 | |
| Ruijie 2 | Bandwidth | 40Mhz | 80Mhz |
| Channel | 11 | 44 |
Kids connect to 1 and myself to 2.
I noticed an issue whilst playing chess this morning where it warns me about being disconnected every few seconds.
HartsockZA
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typically, if it is a very large house I would always recommend running cable from the 1st AP all the way to the 2nd AP. What models do you have I can give you an idea for more or less coverage the EW1200 don't go as far as one would think, I've seen people try mesh like 12 routers thinking coverage over throughput was the answer and if you have a solid backhaul then yes it would be but if the aim is pure mesh the results are quite the opposite. If you're in Pretoria give me a shout quotes are free.
The current placement of the routers is fine for the most part? does it cover where it needs to cover? Then instead of getting more routers running a cable would be the best option I assume the router 1 is where fiber breakout occurs
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Tried extending the primary wifi with their Mesh 3.0 but it did not work for me so I am running a cable from primary to the secondary AP
Nope deep south of Gauteng
No fibre, just WISP.
Yes both router seems to work fine.
Primary is in the living room for connection to the dish.
2nd is in the roof about halfway down the house.
The question is though, is the packet loss wifi or internet?
yogidabear
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Ping the gateway and ping the Internet and you will quickly see. Your first image says DNS latency 593ms which is terrible
HartsockZA
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Well if the cable is fine from router 1 to router 2 then you shouldn't be seeing any sort of packet loss as per the screenshot you're getting loss purely from the source so I'd ask the WISP to check for that. I myself tested here in the office and this is my results. When you walk to where router 1 is do you see packetloss still? I'd jump onto a computer or laptop jam a ethernet cable and test with mtr to see where the loss is coming in from.
Short answer, no it's not normal but you'll need to investigate source of packet loss to determine what is at fault
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Run something like pingplotter to a server like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 or news.bbc.co.uk for an hour or two and look where the packet loss is.
It could be on your network, it could be the last mile WISP network, the WISP backbones of even further upstream.
It could be on your network, it could be the last mile WISP network, the WISP backbones of even further upstream.
Sapphiron
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pingtracer is an open source alternative to pingplotter in case people are interested. Not quite as nice looking, but the technical data is superior (it timeplots losses for every hop) and it logs everything to file.
Is there a way to show the various hops' IP addresses or the FQDNs?