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Sometimes it's just your GD router flickering out!!

I’ve never had a single wifi router that didn’t have at least some minor glitch in it. The first 3 generations I owned would overheat. My current ASUS with multiple antennas has a reliability problem on 2 GHz.

I know this because I have a laptop and streamer that were hooked up to it. Wifi analyzer showed very strong signal with no noisy neighbors at all. Still flickers out. Switch to 5 GHz and the problems go away.

Point is, in addition to your usual Wifi issues like low strength and neighbor’s signals interference these devices are made to the absolute bargain price point. Sometimes it really is your router.

If you can run Ethernet for your streamers, especially video, it's almost always going to save you issues later.
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not saying it cant be a modem / router issue....but lets not over look of how the internet signal gets to the house / modem / router also.      if there is a problem there, that can cause issues as well.     

 sure you can use the analyzer , but you need to usually have a dsam meter to check forward and reverse levels and see if there are any BER's on that frequency and if there is , then its a matter of tracking it back further in the house  / cable plant.
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