Why does my talk talk router kick off my mobile devices?

413x · 21 Nov 2011 at 08:57

Had to replace my netgear router recently cause lighting hit our house and blew it up (literally)

Replaced it with the router we were sent, its useless, it kicks off my htc desire, my touchpad and someone else's iPhone all the time, hsdpa is quicker, can only load say 10! Seconds of youtube before it fails, but it doesn't do this on the pc

I'm shredding through my mobile data pretty fast, mainly on edge

So it's not just ios, webos, or android or hardware its definitely the router

Help

Rabtech · 21 Nov 2011 at 15:10

Please post what make and model router you are now using, Talktalk over time have issued 6+ different makes/models of wireless router.

413x · 22 Nov 2011 at 11:09

talk talk huawei echolife hg520

pyropetepete · 22 Nov 2011 at 11:37

Mine does it all the time and think it's to do with the wifi setting so i changed it! The router has infact died now

Rabtech · 22 Nov 2011 at 14:53

Try changing channel to either 3, 8 or 9 (not commonly used channels) and changed your encryption to WPA2-PSK (only, not mixed mode WPA-PSK/WP2-PSK) and reconnect your devices to the wireless.

If they still drop out then the router is poor and you will need to replace it, preferably with a decent brand one.