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Original Poster:Andy Wirral
My question does not relate to a Google WIFI I currently have, it is asking if getting Google WIFI will help me resolve my issue - I am not techie enough to work this out I just have a theory - I need advice from someone that understands how Routers/WIFI work?
My router drops connections to devices and it seems to do it in a cycle. If the front room TV is working at some point it will lose connection and after about 20 seconds will reconnect to WIFI, at a different time the back room tv, laptop and my phone will do the same. As this happens in cycles of losing and rejoining the WIFI at different times I know the router is not restarting as they do not lose connection at the same time.
Initially I thought this was a problem with the TalkTalk router so I got them to replace it with a new one but this one does the same, the only way i seem to be able to prevent this happening all the time is to switch off the router for 20 minutes every day which I do, this seems to last for about 36hours then it will start doing it again.
In my head I am thinking it is because of the number of devices connected and it drops one to connect another and so on but when I read the specs of the router and it states it can handle around 250 connected items and I have nowhere near that many, i have about 45ish, not all devices but connections shown.
I recently read somewhere though that no matter what the router specs says a router cannot handle any more than around 32 connections per channel before there will be issues.
so my questions are....
1) Am I right in thinking this may be the problem with my devices dropping in what appears to be a cycle?
2) Is it right that the router although it says can handle over 200 connections may be struggling with my 45?
3) I have read the Google Mesh WIFI literature and am I right in thinking that if I bought one of these it will be just 1 connection to my existing router and all other connections will be to the Google network therefore will not be overloading the connections to the existing Talk Talk router? - I.E, Talk Talk will see one connection but I will have 40 devices attached to Google WIFI for example?
4) I suppose the next question is can the Google WIFI handle that many connections and I will just not be transferring the issue to Google WIFI?
Many thanks for your help if anyone can answer these questions
