Ok guys, so I got a little excited and started looking at everything in my house and thought, I can smart home that. I can smart home that, oh and that!
Well, I now have 17 lifx light bulbs, 4 smart switches, 2 amazon alexas, 5 smart plugs, 1 wifi range extender and that's all my network is accepting at the moment in terms of connection.
I guess I was seeing how far I could go before running into connectivity issues, and well.. it finally hit.
I have an Xfinity (comcast) gateway with two frequecny bands (5ghz and 2.4). I have a very little amount of devices connected to my 5ghz band and my 2.4 ghz band is just filled with basically all of these smart devices. I started realizing that once I started adding these new smart light switches that I wasn't able to connect them to my 2.4ghz band (only option as it's not 5ghz compatible.) When I reset my modem (gateway) I would quickly try to connect the device I was having issues with and WA LA, I got it connected. I then walked around my house and did a little inspecting and discovered that one of the other devices was kicked off the 2.4 connection to make room for that new device I added. So I feel like I've run into a road block and cannot keep adding to my smart home.
Has anyone else run into this issue, I'm pretty lost on what my next steps should be, I called comcast to upgrade but they basically told me the network would not support all of these devices.
What are some of you other folks doing to make this smart home dream come to reality?
Well, I now have 17 lifx light bulbs, 4 smart switches, 2 amazon alexas, 5 smart plugs, 1 wifi range extender and that's all my network is accepting at the moment in terms of connection.
I guess I was seeing how far I could go before running into connectivity issues, and well.. it finally hit.
I have an Xfinity (comcast) gateway with two frequecny bands (5ghz and 2.4). I have a very little amount of devices connected to my 5ghz band and my 2.4 ghz band is just filled with basically all of these smart devices. I started realizing that once I started adding these new smart light switches that I wasn't able to connect them to my 2.4ghz band (only option as it's not 5ghz compatible.) When I reset my modem (gateway) I would quickly try to connect the device I was having issues with and WA LA, I got it connected. I then walked around my house and did a little inspecting and discovered that one of the other devices was kicked off the 2.4 connection to make room for that new device I added. So I feel like I've run into a road block and cannot keep adding to my smart home.
Has anyone else run into this issue, I'm pretty lost on what my next steps should be, I called comcast to upgrade but they basically told me the network would not support all of these devices.
What are some of you other folks doing to make this smart home dream come to reality?