Webcore seems to hiccup my internet

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
For the last few days, when one of my pistons executes

  • Turns on some lights
  • Sends a text
  • Plays an dropbox sound file

My internet goes out for a few minutes - Im leaning more towards my router at this point. Ive also added a couple Google Home Minis since I started to see some of this weirdness. I have a Netgear Nighthawk which should handle the load. Maybe Im just overloading it.

Has anyone else experienced this, is there a good way to test a routers ability to handle the concurrency and number of attached devices? Anyone have ideas to adding devices without saturating and taking their router down?

2) What is the expected behaviour?
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3) What is happening/not happening?
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4) Post a Green Snapshot of the pistonimage
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5) Attach logs after turning logging level to Full
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#2

Can you post an image of the piston and any logs?

My first thought is the addition of the google home minis might be the start of your problems. How many devices do you have attached to your wifi router?

#3

Ill have to turn logs on …

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#4

How many devices do you have connected to your wifi router?

I experienced an issue last fall where I added one more Nest Cam and guess I hit the limit on number of devices. I started seeing lots of hiccups and pauses in network connectivity. I ended up updating my network components and have been fine since.

#5

A little more info. The texts get sent, the local music play of the dropbox files dont, and thats when I notice my router loses internet. Im still connected to the router, but external ping goes dead. Comes back in 2-3 minutes

@jkp 12? Most are dormant/standby mode (appletv, 3 iPhones)

  • ST Hub
  • Hue Hub
  • Netgear Camera Hub
  • Network Storage Device
  • 2 Laptops
  • 3 Google Minis
  • Printer

In other words, when it tanks (at least this am right before posting), there is usually little bandwidth being pulled as compared to when we are ripping bandwidth - laptops/phones open streaming on AppleTV

What gear dd you move to? Im wondering if some wifi extenders and added things across them may help … It sort of feels like this happened once I added the 3rd mini … but it literally sits in the garage doing not much

#6

In my situation, I decided to move to ubiquiti

#7

I was just drooling over that gear

#8

I had something similar and it turned out it was due to one of the Poorly written and/or installed Device Handlers I was using…
Are you using any?