Reply to: I never realised bluetooth borked WiFi

[d000hg]

It lets you go in and refresh but doesn't do it automatically... but then we only had this router about two weeks and we did refresh it to make sure.

[WTFH]

I think we used this previously. The hub we have has an "auto select" feature that claims to pick the best channel(s) although I don't know how good it is.

It's OK as a start, but does it switch channels if something else appears on the channel it is using? I think the old BT ones would do the check when they were switched on but doesn't check after that, so if another device is switched on (e.g. in another house) that clashes with the same channel - maybe not near your router but in one of the other rooms in your house - then you could have problems.

[d000hg]

I think we used this previously. The hub we have has an "auto select" feature that claims to pick the best channel(s) although I don't know how good it is.

[gables]

I use insider - this link should be the Home version (Free):
inSSIDer 3.1.2.1 Download - TechSpot


Four wifi networks at home, set up so they don't overlap and the ones nearest a neighbour's house are at the opposite end of the channel range to theirs.

+1 for inSSIDer works a treat

[WTFH]

I use insider - this link should be the Home version (Free):
inSSIDer 3.1.2.1 Download - TechSpot


Four wifi networks at home, set up so they don't overlap and the ones nearest a neighbour's house are at the opposite end of the channel range to theirs.

[northernladuk]

I had a problem with BT hub5 and Wi-Fi dropping and reconnecting constantly. I used some Wi-Fi channel app analyser and just switched the channels on my hub and it stopped the connection issues. Apparently it can be a problem if there are other BT hubs around as they use the same channel by default. Worth a go just to tweak if not help your problem directly.

Edit. This article covers what I've probably badly explained
http://www.howtogeek.com/197268/how-...rating-system/

[d000hg]

As a slight update, I discovered that the BTHomeHub:

1)Lets me use a different SSID for 5GHz, if I want
2)Allows me to separately disable/enable 2.4 & 5GHz

I've no idea if all my WiFi devices support 5GHz but it seems I've got some options.

[NickFitz]

Sounds that could be the case here then. I might take the iPad from room to room and see if I can catch it swapping which frequency it's using.

My various devices are supposed to use 5 but will sometimes switch to 2.4 for no reason that I've ever been able to establish, so that sounds like a possibility.

[d000hg]

Sounds that could be the case here then. I might take the iPad from room to room and see if I can catch it swapping which frequency it's using.

[gables]

It seems I can set the router to use 5 or 2.4 (and I think it will fall back to 2.4 for devices which require it) transparently. The admin page shows me devices connected by ethernet, 2.4 and 5, and I'm sure it was showing my iPad3 connected to 5.

Which is another reason I wonder if this is an iPad/iOS issue over and above regular BT/WiFi interference - as well as that it happens even when no BT device is actually connected. The wife said she thought she'd read the same chip was used for both though either of us knows... her iPhone (4 I think) had a fault where both stopped working at the same time IIRC.

edit: although at the time of typing, my hub lists my iPad-2 using 5Ghz and my iPad-3 using 2.4GHz. Does one have shorter range perhaps, e.g. the iPad3 is further away so has fallen back to 2.4GHz?

The 5GHz has a shorter range than the 2.4GHz, when I say shorter I really mean less good at going through walls. I find my phone when connected to 5GHz is fine in the living room which is close to the router, it isn't so good in the bedroom, if I then connect to the 2.4GHz all is well.

[d000hg]

It seems I can set the router to use 5 or 2.4 (and I think it will fall back to 2.4 for devices which require it) transparently. The admin page shows me devices connected by ethernet, 2.4 and 5, and I'm sure it was showing my iPad3 connected to 5.

Which is another reason I wonder if this is an iPad/iOS issue over and above regular BT/WiFi interference - as well as that it happens even when no BT device is actually connected. The wife said she thought she'd read the same chip was used for both though either of us knows... her iPhone (4 I think) had a fault where both stopped working at the same time IIRC.

edit: although at the time of typing, my hub lists my iPad-2 using 5Ghz and my iPad-3 using 2.4GHz. Does one have shorter range perhaps, e.g. the iPad3 is further away so has fallen back to 2.4GHz?

[NickFitz]

Your router might support 5GHz, but is that the network you're actually using? I've got an Apple Airport Extreme, and the 5GHz is a separate network to the 2.4GHz one, with its own SSID. In my case they have the same name but with "5GHz" at the end of the desirable one. As, in my limited experience of them, BT like to give their routers SSIDs which are incomprehensible strings prefixed by something like "BTHub", you may find that your 5GHz network is actually one you've been assuming belongs to the neighbours.

[d000hg]

What part of "reading around" did you not understand? This isn't General.

[WTFH]

Let me google that for you

[TheFaQQer]

I had that on one phone. Did a factory reset and it worked fine after that.