WiFi is misbehaving

[Hassan170]

I have a 500mbps plan and 2 routers.

The new ISP provided router is a Huawei 2-in-1 router and modem and the other is an aftermarket TP-link router that i carried over when i bought it to replace my previous ISP's router.

 

The Modem-and-Router is the Huawei HG8145V5

That is the TP-Link Archer AX50 router which i have now i made into an access point.

 

The 2 routers are daisy chained.

 

I have the TP-link in Access Point mode and have it cover the house where the Huawei can't reach.

Initially I did notice that sometimes there would be some times where the WIFI just ..lagged? but these were very infrequent and only lasted about a few seconds. This wasn't noticeable on my laptop and wasn't much of an issue on my phone.

 

Recently, however things have gotten really bad. Its come to the point where when it does cut out its fkin unusable. My phone would just stop loading anything that needed an internet connection.

Playing Just Cause 3 on my laptop, the game would pause to let me know they can't reach the servers and i have to go into offline mode, this happens several times during a session.

Its become really fkin annoying and i want to fix my setup once and for all.

This here is an example of what a cutout looks like on my phone. The download/downstream just stops and i get the dreaded, "connected without internet" for a solid few minutes.

 

What can I do to fix this?

I have fiddled a bit with the router settings before and now how to change some of them. But I'm not all to familiar with changing DNS settings and stuff like that so I might need some guidance.

 

Your help and advice is much appreciated. 

[Allan B]

Can you confirm a few setup things.

Your Huawei internal IP is 192.168.0.1 for example

Your TP Link is connected by the "LAN" port from the Huawei to the LAN (not WAN) port on the TP-Link.

It is important to also make sure your TPLINK IP is changed from 192.168.0.1 to something else, like 192.168.0.3

Are wired connections working properly when you are having wireless issues?

 

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

I assume you made sure the two routers are on different channels?

Remembering that a channel might be up to 160Mhz in width (I'd probably recommend only using 80Mhz though as that should handle 500Mbit and give you more leeway for channel selection).

[Hassan170]

On 6/2/2022 at 9:23 PM, Allan B said:

Can you confirm a few setup things.

Your Huawei internal IP is 192.168.0.1 for example

Your TP Link is connected by the "LAN" port from the Huawei to the LAN (not WAN) port on the TP-Link.

It is important to also make sure your TPLINK IP is changed from 192.168.0.1 to something else, like 192.168.0.3

Are wired connections working properly when you are having wireless issues?

The Huawei internal IP is 192.168.100.1

The TP-link internal IP is 192.168.100.7 and is set in AP mode

On 6/2/2022 at 9:23 PM, Allan B said:

Your TP Link is connected by the "LAN" port from the Huawei to the LAN (not WAN) port on the TP-Link.

Are wired connections working properly when you are having wireless issues?

It's connected to the WAN port.

I haven't tried wired connections yet.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

[Hassan170]

on wireless, I'm getting anywhere between 50-80 mb/s max.

My internet is 500mbps fiber, I know the tp-link AX-50 is limited to around 300mbps of bandwidth

But this is way less than what it should be delivering.

[Allan B]

2 hours ago, Hassan170 said:

The Huawei internal IP is 192.168.100.1

The TP-link internal IP is 192.168.100.7 and is set in AP mode

It's connected to the WAN port.

I haven't tried wired connections yet.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

I believe you should be in the LAN port on the TP-link, if it is in AP mode make sure DHCP is disabled on the TPLINK as well. 

[Falcon1986]

10 hours ago, Hassan170 said:

It's connected to the WAN port.

I haven't tried wired connections yet.

Use a LAN port on the TP-Link as an uplink to the Huawei.

[Hassan170]

On 6/4/2022 at 10:40 AM, Falcon1986 said:

Use a LAN port on the TP-Link as an uplink to the Huawei.

 

On 6/4/2022 at 2:24 AM, Allan B said:

I believe you should be in the LAN port on the TP-link, if it is in AP mode make sure DHCP is disabled on the TPLINK as well. 

Sorry, i mistyped. its conneceted in the LAN port. I'll try disabling DHCP on the TP-Lnk

[Hassan170]

on my pc im using a basic USB wifi adapter that only does 2.4 Ghz, im going to upgrade it to a TP-Link TX50 so hopefully that improves wifi speed somewhat.

so far cutouts have been reduce but not entirely eliminated.