Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android,uk.telecom.broadband Subject: Re: Mobile faster than wi-fi in many countries Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 13:55:07 +0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <011220181504490137%nospam@nospam.invalid> <021220181008546446%nospam@nospam.invalid> <021220181748079721%nospam@nospam.invalid> <031220181009233469%nospam@nospam.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: FhT7DCMNmp0kPFTmkOwRZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.2 Content-Language: en-GB X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: csiph.com uk.telecom.mobile:33649 comp.mobile.android:58146 uk.telecom.broadband:42632 On 05/12/2018 19:13, NY wrote: > "Martin Brown" <'''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > news:pu91hh$mju$2@gioia.aioe.org... >> I have never seen any Wifi degradation like you describe that were not >> due to local interference from neighbours or arc welding. > > I'd put it down to local interference, if the problem had not followed > me when I moved house. Hmm... no idea then. Might be worth trying a new router of a reputable make. > > Weird that it affects several PCs, several routers and two different > locations where router channel was deliberately chosen to have no > overlaps with neighbouring networks. > > >> I have known some Apple products that really don't get on at all with >> certain router chipsets but despite the more variation in PC hardware >> I have never had all that much bother with Wifi connections. It mostly >> just works apart from in heavily shielded parts of the house. > > Ah, that's interesting, My wife often moans that her iPad gets very slow > web browsing and dropped connections when my Windows laptop and Android > phone work fine. Atheros and Broadcom are chipsets of choice for Apple compatibility. The bugs that cause trouble seem to be in multicastDNS variously called zeroconf, Rendezvous or Bonjour. ISP supplied routers are notorious for not doing it very well which leads to unreliable Apple (& Naim) kit operation. If you only have PCs then it isn't a problem. Some powerline devices despite using Atheros chipset have botched mDNS. Marvell chipset is a bit too new to be sure whether it is good or not. Chipsets to avoid with Apple gear are Realtek and Ralink. And you absolutely need a solid implementation of mDNS in some flavour. -- Regards, Martin Brown