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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 bfuller »

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 noticed an issue since grtting a chromecast this Christmas but i cant say for sure its causing the issue

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Post by slindz »

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?

My iPad recently quit being able to connect to the 5GHz channel. My Samsung S6 networking is also glitchy and often on cell service while at home.

Timing aligns with me getting a Chromecast.

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Post by sprt »

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.

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Post by shegs »

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?

After adding a second chromecast video / audio chats are impossible and countless drops at any given time. It's good to know the source of the issue.

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Post by 77ko »

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 failing to stream with phones on wifi).

I wonder if Google employees need to test their consumer devices outside the googleplex where the internet is super fast and the industrial grade networking gear deals with such issues automagically.

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