Too many devices connected to Wifi network?

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Alright so I just bought a new wireless router, but it's been acting up. My Mac will randomly disconnect. I'll have to reconnect through my mac, or restart the router. My Vita downloads stuff horrendously slow, and there's lag when playing online. My PS3 works fine when it's connected, but sometimes it refuses to connect until I disconnect my iMac and restart the router. My PC is now wireless, and we got an iPad Mini recently so I'm wondering if too many devices are the problem. We have...

- PC
- iMac
- iPad 1
- iPad Mini
- PS3
- Apple TV
- Vita
- 3DS
- Laptop

Now not everything is always connected, but could too many devices mess with the wireless network? I tried switching channels but no luck. The slow downloads on the Vita are the most annoying.

Any help?
 
Same thing happened with an old router of mine. I don't know if it has to do with duplicate assigned addresses for each device or what. My solution was buying an Airport Extreme, which supports many more connections by default.
 
injurai said:
Most of those don't always need to be connected. Maybe some could use a lan?
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Well as I mentioned in my post most of them aren't all connected at the same time. And LAN isn't very realistic for most devices. Well actually I just remembered that my Apple TV is actually hooked up to LAN, so is my 360. My PC is Wifi because I don't want a wire running across the living room. My iMac is on a different floor than the router, same with my PS3. The portable devices of course are wifi only.
Crunched said:
Same thing happened with an old router of mine. I don't know if it has to do with duplicate assigned addresses for each device or what. My solution was buying an Airport Extreme, which supports many more connections by default.
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I thought this might be the problem, I've gotten that message on my Mac that says "Another computer on the network is sharing the same IP address" but that is usually resolved on it's own. I went into the router settings and every device has a different IP.
 
So I just remember that the router is dual band, so I just switched my iMac, PC and iPad to the 5ghz band. Hopefully that clears up congestion. My PS3 just connected to Wifi just fine. However my Vita is still horrendously slow. I just tried downloading a 574MB demo. It's estimating 300 minutes to download it. Then it will quickly jump to 28 minutes, then the estimation time will crawl it's way back to 300+ minutes.
 
whitehawk said:
So I just remember that the router is dual band, so I just switched my iMac, PC and iPad to the 5ghz band. Hopefully that clears up congestion. My PS3 just connected to Wifi just fine. However my Vita is still horrendously slow. I just tried downloading a 574MB demo. It's estimating 300 minutes to download it. Then it will quickly jump to 28 minutes, then the estimation time will crawl it's way back to 300+ minutes.
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I have the same problem with my vita, I got a new router since my old had a weak signal out of nowhere. The only thing that seems to be a problem is download speed and signal on my ps3 and vita. Makes watching Netflix annoying since the speed fluctuates and the picture quality drops.
 
I had a bunch of family members come over a week ago and everyone was on their iphones/ipads, laptops, kids playing my consoles(on wifi) and my connection was cutting off constantly.

As soon as everyone left, it went back to easy breezy normal.

/anecdotal evidence
 
Add another router to your set up that's what I did.
I used to always get problems on my wireless N network with just as many devices connected. I have two brothers and between us we have 3xbox's, a ps3, 4 laptops, all have smartphones, a tablet, and all have ipods. So at any given time they're at least 5 to 6 devices connected at one time, and if someone plays COD online, its like no one else can get online. Added another router to the set up, smooth sailing for everyone ever since.
 
Dark Knyght said:
Add another router to your set up that's what I did.
I used to always get problems on my wireless N network with just as many devices connected. I have two brothers and between us we have 3xbox's, a ps3, 4 laptops, all have smartphones, a tablet, and all have ipods. So at any given time they're at least 5 to 6 devices connected at one time, and if someone plays COD online, its like no one else can get online. Added another router to the set up, smooth sailing for everyone ever since.
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I'm not sure how I would go about setting another router up.

Also since I switched some computers to the 5ghz band, the dropping of connections seems to have been resolved. The only problem that persists is that wireless on my Vita is extremely slow.
 
Used to to have a similar problem at home. We found out the problem was a device which was transmitting the satellite signal upstairs as well. Bought another one on a different frequency and the problem was solved.

Are there devices like that in your house? Any sort of transmitter could be the problem.
 
DaNcaKe said:
Used to to have a similar problem at home. We found out the problem was a device which was transmitting the satellite signal upstairs as well. Bought another one on a different frequency and the problem was solved.

Are there devices like that in your house? Any sort of transmitter could be the problem.
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Satellite signal? Like satellite TV? We have Cable so that wouldn't be the problem.
 
So I'm still having problems with my Vita. Anyone else know of a solution? Playing online and Netflix seems to work, but downloading anything results in terribly slow download speeds.

Just look at this. Right now it's stuck at about 150mb and isn't moving at all.

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Sounds like you have IP conflict between devices turning off and on.

Change your DHCP range to be two/three times your device count.

Or make all the devices have a reserved static IP inside of the router.
 
Copernicus said:
Sounds like you have IP conflict between devices turning off and on.

Change your DHCP range to be two/three times your device count.

Or make all the devices have a reserved static IP inside of the router.
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Well the range is already from .100 to .199, wouldn't that be enough?

I guess I'll try the static IP thing.
 
Just tried setting the Vita and all my devices to reserved IP addresses, and set the Vita's farther away from the other's. Still nothing. =/
 
I have the same problem as you. We have:

- My laptop
- My dad's laptop
- My mom's laptop
- My sister's laptop
- My phone tries to connect to wi-fi so it doesn't use data, can't turn it off.
- My dad has the same phone so the same problem
- My dad's samsung TV connects to the internet.
- My consoles and handhelds (when I'm playing, obviously)
- Tablets when laptops aren't use.

Too many damn things. Wi-fi stops working and have to restart it.
 
KillGore said:
I have the same problem as you. We have:

- My laptop
- My dad's laptop
- My mom's laptop
- My sister's laptop
- My phone tries to connect to wi-fi so it doesn't use data, can't turn it off.
- My dad has the same phone so the same problem
- My dad's samsung TV connects to the internet.
- My consoles and handhelds (when I'm playing, obviously)
- Tablets when laptops aren't use.

Too many damn things. Wi-fi stops working and have to restart it.
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Thing is, everything else works! Occasionally Wi-Fi drops out and I have to restart the router, but other than that downloads are fast everywhere else. My Vita never connects properly =/

I'm completely stumped.
 
whitehawk said:
Thing is, everything else works! Occasionally Wi-Fi drops out and I have to restart the router, but other than that downloads are fast everywhere else. My Vita never connects properly =/

I'm completely stumped.
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Shadow780 said:
If you have an old router lying around you can set it up as a wifi repeater, hopefully that helps.
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As in connect my old router to my new one with a wired connection, and then create a new wifi-network? I could try that.

Although I've tried creating a Wi-Fi hotspot with my Phone and my Vita couldn't connect through that either.

edit: oops, sorry for the double post.
 
We have this problem at my job. Offer free Wi-Fi but on busy days when there's multiple connected devices people can't get online and we have to restart the Wi-Fi and the POS systems are down as a result.

I'll keep an eye on this thread for possible solutions.
 
Esqueleto said:
Is everything on a static ip address? Probably an ip conflict somewhere.
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Tried it just 30 minutes ago, did nothing.

Gallbaro said:
Not the point.

Are you in a small apartment? How many other wifi signals do you pick up? In a clean RF space with the amount of devices you have you should be fine. You are likely having spectral interference.
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House. My iMac is scanning 15 other Wifi networks. =/ Thing is, my old router worked fine, my new one isn't. And every other device works fine. Why would just the vita be broken?
Persona7 said:
Maybe your download speed can't handle so many devices running at once. Check your computers for malware.
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Doubt this is it.
 
Now that I remember, having your router in mixed mode might cause problems(b/g/n). If you can in the settings, try to set it to only use g and n.
 
Sounds like you router can't handle too many connections and/or traffic at once. What router do you have? Maybe, try a better router.
 
Maybe it's your modem not playing well with the router.
If your router is also your modem then I guess you can do a factory reset in case some setting was changed by accident which messed things up,
and connect things one by one and see which causes the problem.
 
Dedicated IP's worked for me. No device is fighting for a specific IP. Especially something like the ps3 which always tries to go for the 1st IP regardless if a device is connected to it or now.
 
whitehawk said:
Tried it just 30 minutes ago, did nothing.

House. My iMac is scanning 15 other Wifi networks. =/ Thing is, my old router worked fine, my new one isn't. And every other device works fine. Why would just the vita be broken?
Doubt this is it.
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That is your problem.

Other router had higher gain antennas, high wattage, different operational modes, bunch of explanations.

Edit: Manually go through the 1-11 channels and see which one has the least amounts of interference (they all have interference).
 
You also have to remember the limitation of bandwidth and also, are you using mixed mode? From the sound of it that must be the case since PS3 supports upto G.
 
It's possibly that your router isn't assigning enough IP addresses. I've had a consumer router assign all 50 IP addresses it originally was set to handle by default. I increased the LAN IP address space and everything was fine. I do have a suspicion that something was wrong in the software though as it should have been releasing IP addresses by devices that were no longer connected but it wasn't. *shrug*

Edit: It was a D-Link I had this issue with as well. The DIR-655.

This is the old interface but it'll be under an option that looks something like this:
dlink-setup-dhcp.jpg


Whatever the IP range is increase it so it ends in .250 or something larger than what you have it set to now.
 
whitehawk said:
Tried it just 30 minutes ago, did nothing.

House. My iMac is scanning 15 other Wifi networks. =/ Thing is, my old router worked fine, my new one isn't. And every other device works fine. Why would just the vita be broken?
Doubt this is it.
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using inSSIDer, see what channel the other networks are using. I picked up about 6 from my neighbours a while ago when I did this, but luckily they were all on low numbered channels and 11 was in the clear.
 
Does it work when you have only one or two wireless devices connected to it? I honestly don't think the number of devices connected is the problem. I have 2 smart phones, desktop PC, a laptop, touchpad, wireless printer, wii all at once on wifi and it works fine. Doing the static ip thing rules out ip conflicts.
 
mrklaw said:
using inSSIDer, see what channel the other networks are using. I picked up about 6 from my neighbours a while ago when I did this, but luckily they were all on low numbered channels and 11 was in the clear.
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Most networks are on 11. 2 are on channel 6, two are on 3, and me and someone else are on 1. So 1 would still be the best no? Or should I pick a number that isn't used at all.
J-Rod said:
Does it work when you have only one or two wireless devices connected to it? I honestly don't think the number of devices connected is the problem. I have 2 smart phones, desktop PC, a laptop, touchpad, wireless printer, wii all at once on wifi and it works fine. Doing the static ip thing rules out ip conflicts.
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Yeah I don't that's the problem either. Right now my router is saying there are 4 connected devices, and the Vita is still broken.
 
So... For some reason today my Vita randomly started downloading normally. I was around 350mb downloaded of a 800MB+ file, and then it randomly sped up. Only took about 10 minutes to download the rest of the file. Took me a day of off and on downloading for the first 350mb.

Gonna have to try downloading something else to see if it's still okay.
 
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