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Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops

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Re: Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops

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Post by nathanm412 »

DanCarvajal wrote: post #19

Weird, I have a Chromecast and Google Home but have had no problems, though I do have Google Wifi...

I have an Onhub with four chromecasts and five google homes and have experienced the issues described. I noticed that sometimes if I wake my galaxy s7, other devices in the room might lose connectivity for a few seconds. I couldn't place why it would happen sometimes but not others, but this makes sense. I wonder if it might also explain why if a media app is casting and goes to sleep, it forgets that it's casting when it wakes up.

Re: Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops

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Post by londons_explore »

77ko wrote: post #9

Got a pixel 2, Chromecast and a Google home and now have lots of wifi woes. The timing being exactly after the pixel 2 (turned in cast and home before, didn't have problems). Edit: turning of guest mode on all cast devices makes things better (less wifi dropouts) but still bad. Turning of wifi on both the android phones in my house has cleared up the wifi problem (which was really annoying as even spotify kept failin…

In the Googleplex they have networks designed to be slow and crappy to test exactly this.

All people working on consumer facing apps and sites are encouraged to use these crappy networks on a day to day basis.

Re: Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops

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Post by londons_explore »

bshep wrote: post #12
sofaofthedamned wrote: post #2

It's blamed on MDNS packets being spaffed out at high speed. I've got 3 Chromecasts of various flavours in the house and have never seen this behaviour. Has anybody else had the problem?

I have been having wifi issues for the last 3 months and I have 2 Chromecast's Ive had them for much longer but after reading this I'm going to segregate them to a different wifi network and see if the wifi gets better but my understanding of the issue makes me think it won't get better without a Chromecast update

This specifically needs an android update.

Androids the fault here not the Chromecast

Re: Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops

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Post by londons_explore »

sprt wrote: post #7
sofaofthedamned wrote: post #2

It's blamed on MDNS packets being spaffed out at high speed. I've got 3 Chromecasts of various flavours in the house and have never seen this behaviour. Has anybody else had the problem?

I've actually had a weird issue where my wireless mouse freezes for a second (not the OS) and my Chromecast simultaneously disconnects from my Wi-Fi. It's only happened a few times in several months, but the two are definitely linked. I can't rely explain it beyond "interference", not well-versed in wireless tech.

It'll happen when a neighbour uses a dodgy microwave.

Re: Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops

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Post by ggm »

Google employ a small number of people to write TCP/IP core stack functionality. This is not a 'twenty hundred fiddy' people problem, its a six rising ten people problem.

The core issue is: how do we get the team in question to acknowledge and respond, with a timely code change?

Re: Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops

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Post by [deleted] »

77ko wrote: post #9

Got a pixel 2, Chromecast and a Google home and now have lots of wifi woes. The timing being exactly after the pixel 2 (turned in cast and home before, didn't have problems). Edit: turning of guest mode on all cast devices makes things better (less wifi dropouts) but still bad. Turning of wifi on both the android phones in my house has cleared up the wifi problem (which was really annoying as even spotify kept failin…

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Re: Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops

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Post by dragonwriter »

londons_explore wrote: post #23
bshep wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been having wifi issues for the last 3 months and I have 2 Chromecast's Ive had them for much longer but after reading this I'm going to segregate them to a different wifi network and see if the wifi gets better but my understanding of the issue makes me think it won't get better without a Chromecast update

This specifically needs an android update. Androids the fault here not the Chromecast

Specifically, it sounds like Play Services Cast support has fairly pathological behavior in common circumstances.

Re: Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops

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Post by chubot »

ChromeCast is such a frustrating product. It does exactly what I want in theory. In practice I have to wait 10 to 60 seconds to get it to connect, or reboot my phone. I've started giving up and just using the computer attached to my TV.

I don't think I've been having the particular Wi-Fi issue described in the article, but ChromeCast has been just slow and flaky in my experience. I've had both v1 and v2. It seems to have problems with older phones, but that's not the only problem.

mDNS on Linux with Avahi doesn't seem particularly reliable either (e.g. pinging a Linux box from a Mac.)

Computers barely work :-( I guess this is why Apple insists on owning the whole stack. The compatibility matrix becomes tractable.

Re: Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops

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Post by dragonwriter »

ggm wrote: post #25

Google employ a small number of people to write TCP/IP core stack functionality. This is not a 'twenty hundred fiddy' people problem, its a six rising ten people problem. The core issue is: how do we get the team in question to acknowledge and respond, with a timely code change?

It doesn't sound like it's a core TCP/IP stack problem, it sounds like it's a Google Cast support in Play Services problem.
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