Review your router documentation or user manual for detailed router specific settings. Using your router installation software (In the case of Ubiquity UniFi) or visiting the router’s configuration site (usually 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 in the case of a Cisco, Netgear or D-Link router) login and administer your router.

The steps below will change from router make to router make but all major router manufacturers will have the option to change from Automatic selection of scanning channels to manually select a channel. If you are seeing frequent streaming issues, we recommend you disable Automatic channel selection in your router and select a lesser used channel such as channel 3 or channel 4 to improve radio frequency reliability. When dealing with a media streaming device which requires little or no interruption of packet flows without being noticeable to the ear in the case of music or eye in the case of video, a congested wifi channel can be a problem. This interference can be quite forgiving when surfing the Internet or transmitting e-mail. With all of these routers selecting channel 1, 6 or 11 more often than not, it is quite common for a network to have traffic interference. In crowded urban environments such as a row of town houses or an apartment high rise, it is quite common to have as many as 6 or even more available networks picked up by a wireless device. Generally speaking, when set to Auto Select, routers will generally try channel 1, 6 or 11 rather than scan for a channel with little traffic on it as implied. Most routers have the channel set to Auto Select a channel as default. All routers will broadcast on one of 11 channels in North America or one of 13 channels in Europe. All wireless devices on a given network connect at a radio frequency agreed upon by the router.

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