Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush

Re:Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush by therein on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @05:25AM (#13228075)

I have the same router with the same firmware. I'm using a mid-2014 MBP Retina and my Echo Dot works great along with all my wireless devices both in 2.4G and 5G. My setup is basically Internet -> pfSense -> RT-AC87U with Webpass. Over 5G, I get 250+ mbit.

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Re:Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush by croon on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @06:20AM (#13228296)

Oh, yes, the wireless performance I get is great, it's the reliability I take issue with. You never get any disconnects or hickups?

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Re:Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush by nicolas_t on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @06:34AM (#13228362)

I have the exact same router (with Merlins firmware) and never get any disconnects and I have a lot of devices (mbp, macbook air, macbook, iphones, android tablet and ipad).

Do you live in an area with a lot of RF noise? or with a lot of other Wifi networks? I've stayed for a month in New York last year at a place with a lot of other wifi networks and my Macbooks became much more flaky when connecting to wifi.

Maybe you can try changing the wifi channel?

But I can say that having an internet connection that's not great definitely creates a lot of problem and additional frustration. I was way more frustrated when I stayed that month in New York (for some reason the internet connection had intermittent packet loss), I'm really quite surprised at how bad internet connections are in the US.

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Re:Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush by croon on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @09:17AM (#13229226)

A house in suburbia. I can see maybe 5, possibly 10 networks tops, with a good client. I'd categorize that as "not a lot of noise", at least not from other WLANs.

I've tried different channels, but is that suggestion in regards to the signal (which is not a problem for me) or for its effect on reliability of keeping the connection?

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Re:Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush by therein on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @11:25PM (#13234795)

No disconnects at all. I don't reboot the router often at all either. In fact I realized I probably should reboot one after realizing some issues with the onboard RAM and the uptime was over 3 months at that point.

I'm in the San Francisco area so you'd think RF noise would be pretty heavily present here. Before this I had the TP-Link AC1200 and I had all the issues you mentioned with that.

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