{"id":45,"date":"2010-07-28T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2025-01-05T12:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:07:02","slug":"troubleshoot-a-slow-wifi-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/troubleshoot-a-slow-wifi-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubleshoot a Slow WiFi Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Meraki Tools\" src=\"http:\/\/meraki.com\/images\/logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"84\" \/>I recently received a call from my father about experiencing slow internet speeds for no apparent reason. I had installed a Linksys N router for him a few months ago and all had been working well at the time. I did remember that I was able to see many (about 8 &#8211; 10) available wifi networks when I was configuring his new router. It occurred to me that he might be experiencing a problem with interference. I had a hunch that many of these networks were probably broadcasting on the same channel. I was going to first suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/istumbler.net\/\">iStumbler<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlanbook.com\/wifi-scanner-v1.1-mac-os-x-snow-leopard\/\">WiFi Scanner v 1.1<\/a> (both are for Mac OS X) so that my father could detect the channels of the conflicting networks, but I know he has a dislike for installing software if it is not needed regularly. I then found this browser based WiFi detector that worked perfectly &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.meraki.com\/stumbler\">Meraki Tools WiFi Stumbler<\/a>. We quickly found that several of the networks were all on the same channel, including his. So I had my father connect to the router administration page and modify the channel. After a 5 second refresh, he was browsing the web at full speed again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meraki.com\/tools\/stumbler\/instructions.php\">More about Meraki WiFi Stumbler&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a call from my father about experiencing slow internet speeds for no apparent reason. I had installed a Linksys N router for him a few months ago and all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}