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You said "xfinity wifi" -- that's a specific SSID from Comcast that
they bring in for others in your area that are customers (like me)
to use. Which is what I reference as the Comcast radio - the radio
they provided.<br>
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If that's not the case what I would do is put the lower priority
items or further distant items on 2.4GHz and the closer/higher
priority items on 5GHz.<br>
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That said - what frequencies are you using on these? Never set up
2.4GHz in auto - always use channels 1, 6 or 11 (the rest overlap
with those and cause interference). And with 5-6.1GHz avoid the DFS
range (>ch. 54 and < ch. 130) as those will go offline
randomly for at least 30 minutes at a time.<br>
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I can go into further detail but it's a lot of information to
digest. Avoiding those two things will help with speed and
capabilities in addition to making an active decision as to what
will use what network.<br>
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Also keep your radio away from anything with an electric motor -
they will give off interference in the 2.4GHz and 5.0-6.1GHz range
as well.<br>
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Ryan<br>
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by "comcast radio". I think we have 2 SSIDs, a 5. and a 2.4
on our Cisco XB3 -- and yeah, I think *many* devices are
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I have three in my house - 6 phones, two
computers, three wireless set-top boxes, etc...
each of the fixed set-tops are on their own SSID
(which are part of the group - not hidden or
anything), the PCs use the 5GHz SSIDs (there are
2) and the phones go on the 2.4s that are
available... we never have connection issues. But
if you try to do 1 single SSID and put them all on
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Even my high-end gear I sell and install (Xirrus)
for my day job has limitations of 30 active users
per radio without any special configurations out
of the box. A single radio *could* support 100
devices if you tune it right but you don't have
that type of option on consumer hardware,
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down to there being too many devices
trying to be on the system. Learned the
modem will support up to 10 devices (7
realistically). Told also that we need
another "access point". I'm guessing that
means a whole 'nother modem/network. Is
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