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Choppy Wifi during gaming/streaming

Pachuca
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Hi, I have a D-link DIR-868L router hooked up to my verizon fios (fiber optics) modem at home. The past few days I noticed problems with my wifi and I'm not sure what's causing it. When gaming online everything is choppy. When I play overwatch other players are moving weird almost like it's slow motion / choppy. I'm getting this result from my laptop and desktop wifi when connecting to my DIR-868L router. I get the same result if I switch over to the Verizon modem wifi. Also, I have this same lag/choppyness issue when streaming movies on netflix, but it's less noticeable. When I connect with an Ethernet cable for either my router or modem there's no problem. I'm not sure what else I may do to eliminate variables. What may be causing this problem? All the firmware is updated to the most recent version. I haven't reached out to Verizon about this yet because I'm not sure if it's a problem on their end or not. It seems to me like there's some kind of interference with the Wifi signal or something. Anyone have some thoughts on this issue?

 

Edit: I forgot to mention that the connection is stable and there is no disconnecting. Also I used wifi analyzer app to check signal strength and I didn't notice anything unusual. Signal is good, but clearly there is some kind of interference going on. 

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have you tried turning them off and back on, no kiding.

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Try changing the channel to a different channel. Channels 1, 6 and 11 do not overlap and should be the channels you use to test your connection on. 

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9 minutes ago, malon said:

have you tried turning them off and back on, no kiding.

IT Crowd... lol. Yes I have tried that and sometimes I get a message saying unable to connect to this network when attempting to connect to the Dlink router. Usually another reboot of the router fixes that problem. 

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6 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

Try changing the channel to a different channel. Channels 1, 6 and 11 do not overlap and should be the channels you use to test your connection on. 

it's already on channel 11, but I haven't tried it on other channels yet. Will have to give that a try later. 

 

Edit: also the verizon modem is on a different channel and it has the same problem with wifi. 

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