Network puzzle

Sometimes a router reboot solves the issue.

You can tell that dave is a computer and network pro “turn it on and off” ?

Joking aside that usally fixes most router issues. If mine ever slows, i just log in and reboot it.

I recall having a terrible issue where my girls 1+1, would kick my 1+1, off my own network when she came home. To fix this i had to manually assign a fixed ip to both phones. Dave help me solve that. ?

Shame the off/on trick didn’t work as its usually the best one !

Its just a thought but you haven’t got MAC filtering enabled have you ? I say that because “unknown devices” are listed.

Failing that then a paper clip in the reset hole is my next favorite trick ?

Bob, you might be onto something about the set up of the devices, I have been known to do such things in the past and then not quite remember what it was… when trouble strikes, as it always does a while later. A root and branch examination of the set up is often needed to trace the cause of the snafu. My setup also has some ‘name blank’ or ‘Unknown’ devices about which I do know, but the router refuses to identify reliably. It also has at least one, sometimes two or three devices that it fails to declare knowing about while they have active, (wired) connections. It gets stupid when one switch lists devices that the other treats as some hidden secret while passing traffic to and from them.

I have seen some routers have limitations on the number of WiFi devices they can run at anyone time. I have two different WiFi access points and one or two devices appear not to like one of them for some daft reason, possibly they are a bit liverish? As a result only the hardly ever used Fire Stick is now the one device that uses one of them. This is not an issue as everything else can ‘see’ the main router well enough to work.

Good luck with the sleuthing.