Wifi overload with home automation devices?

Beefeater wrote: ↑ I have bought a few home automation devices recently: 1 Wayze cam, 2 switches, 3 plugs and 3 google homes. I also consider buying the Samsung Smartthings hub and water sensors.

Now, people told me that my VOIP phone (FreePhoneLine) has echos and stuttering from their end.

I have the Carrytel 75/10 pan, but found the upload speed was under 3gb in last few days.

Does home automation devices take up too much wifi bandwidth? If so, how to check the bandwidth used and what is the solution?

Beefeater wrote: ↑ I have bought a few home automation devices recently: 1 Wayze cam, 2 switches, 3 plugs and 3 google homes. I also consider buying the Samsung Smartthings hub and water sensors.

Now, people told me that my VOIP phone (FreePhoneLine) has echos and stuttering from their end.

I have the Carrytel 75/10 pan, but found the upload speed was under 3gb in last few days.

Does home automation devices take up too much wifi bandwidth? If so, how to check the bandwidth used and what is the solution?

rvs007 wrote: ↑ Is your VOIP phone on wifi or it's connected via ethernet to your router & modem? If it's hard-wired, then any degradation in voice quality is probably attributed to lack of bandwidth in your internet access, not wifi overload. Have you tried using QoS to give higher priority to VoIP traffic? If your upload speed is 3Mbps (I doubt you have 3Gb as you stated) then that might be the bottleneck if your Wyzecam is taking part of that bandwidth to upload to the cloud.

What router do you currently use? Some routers can report what download/upload speeds you are getting and can break it down to which IP is using that bandwidth so you can narrow down to what is causing the issues.

Beefeater wrote: ↑ I have the Panasonic 5 handset phone system with its base connected to my router, D-Link Dir825, via a network cable.

My router's current QoS set up is: "enable QoS engine", "automatic classification", and "dynamic fragmentation". It is not obvious how to give higher priority to the FreePhoneLine.

My Carrytel upload speed is supposed to be 10gb maximum, but got only 3gb recently, especially in the evenings when the traffic in the neighborhood might be busy.

My D-Link dir 825 does not appear to generate report for download/upload speeds. It is a 5 yrs old router.

Beefeater wrote: ↑ I have the Panasonic 5 handset phone system with its base connected to my router, D-Link Dir825, via a network cable.

My router's current QoS set up is: "enable QoS engine", "automatic classification", and "dynamic fragmentation". It is not obvious how to give higher priority to the FreePhoneLine.

My Carrytel upload speed is supposed to be 10gb maximum, but got only 3gb recently, especially in the evenings when the traffic in the neighborhood might be busy.

My D-Link dir 825 does not appear to generate report for download/upload speeds. It is a 5 yrs old router.

tebore wrote: ↑ There's your problem
It's actually a 10 year old router.
It was never very good to begin with.

It's got hilariously low routing performance by modern standards.
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireles ... l=&start=1

tebore wrote: ↑ There's your problem
It's actually a 10 year old router.
It was never very good to begin with.

It's got hilariously low routing performance by modern standards.
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireles ... l=&start=1

tebore wrote: ↑ There's your problem
It's actually a 10 year old router.
It was never very good to begin with.

It's got hilariously low routing performance by modern standards.
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireles ... l=&start=1

Beefeater wrote: ↑ Now, people told me that my VOIP phone (FreePhoneLine) has echos and stuttering from their end.