Can any wireless network geeks figure out the following? I'm baffled.
My video streaming box can operate either wired or wireless. Over the course of a few weeks of daily use of the box the wireless connection speed gradually drops to the point streaming Netflix becomes impossible. Power-cycling the box makes no difference. Power-cycling the network's other components too similarly yields no improvement.
If I run a temporary wired connection between the streaming box and the wireless router, streaming then works fine. Now the odd part: removing the wire the next day and switching back to wireless operation also works fine initially, but over the course of a few weeks the wireless connection again degrades to the point of being too slow to stream.
I've repeated these steps a few times this year and the trouble repeats. I'd like a better solution than flipping to a wired connection for a day. Why that should reset the trouble is a mystery to me. Why the slow wireless degradation happens, despite power cycling devices, also makes no sense. Is there a logical explanation?
My video streaming box can operate either wired or wireless. Over the course of a few weeks of daily use of the box the wireless connection speed gradually drops to the point streaming Netflix becomes impossible. Power-cycling the box makes no difference. Power-cycling the network's other components too similarly yields no improvement.
If I run a temporary wired connection between the streaming box and the wireless router, streaming then works fine. Now the odd part: removing the wire the next day and switching back to wireless operation also works fine initially, but over the course of a few weeks the wireless connection again degrades to the point of being too slow to stream.
I've repeated these steps a few times this year and the trouble repeats. I'd like a better solution than flipping to a wired connection for a day. Why that should reset the trouble is a mystery to me. Why the slow wireless degradation happens, despite power cycling devices, also makes no sense. Is there a logical explanation?