WiFi stops working on my laptop when my flatmate's phone is connected


  1. Posts : 14
    Windows 10
       #1

    WiFi stops working on my laptop when my flatmate's phone is connected


    As the title says, whenever my flatmate connects his smartphone to our home WiFi, the connection on my laptop starts going really slow, it's basically dead. It's really weird, for example if I'm watching something and he arrives home, the video stops, and this happens every time. I told him about it but obviously he needs the WiFi for things so I can't really ask him to turn it off all the time.
    Do you guys know what it could be and a way to solve the problem? Maybe I could change the internet channel, or something like that? I don't know much about this things.. It's been a while now and I really need to find a solution!

    Thank you :)
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  2. Posts : 8,102
    windows 10
       #2

    Its what he is doing if he is streaminvideo or simliar he may eat all your bandwidth what is you download speed?
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  3. Posts : 9,788
    Mac OS Catalina
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    It should be the clue that the person walking in through the door gives you the boot. Especially that it happens the minute he walks in the door.
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  4. Posts : 14
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #4

    He's not streaming or anything. He just walks in the house, his phone automatically connects to the WiFi and my laptop's internet goes crazy. It doesn't happen with any of the other phones in the apartment.
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  5. Posts : 376
    Windows 10 Home 64-bit Edition
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    Gnottino90 said:
    He's not streaming or anything. He just walks in the house, his phone automatically connects to the WiFi and my laptop's internet goes crazy. It doesn't happen with any of the other phones in the apartment.
    They're saying there is a driver issue with Win 10 and old hardware. not sure on that cause I have similar problem, shows I am connected but my music App's will stop after a while then start back. I have the iHeart APP it will be playing then no sound but you open APP and it shows that the music is playing away.
    My opinion, there is something internal causing the problem of shared/conflicts. bridging everything together.
    In System Information under Hardware Resources there is a Conflict/Sharing. I have a few listed in it showing PCI to PCI Bridging.
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  6. Posts : 376
    Windows 10 Home 64-bit Edition
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  7. Posts : 14
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
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    MrHudson said:
    They're saying there is a driver issue with Win 10 and old hardware. not sure on that cause I have similar problem, shows I am connected but my music App's will stop after a while then start back. I have the iHeart APP it will be playing then no sound but you open APP and it shows that the music is playing away.
    My opinion, there is something internal causing the problem of shared/conflicts. bridging everything together.
    In System Information under Hardware Resources there is a Conflict/Sharing. I have a few listed in it showing PCI to PCI Bridging.
    Okay I think I understood what you mean but I don't really know how to proceed!
    I went on the page you named and this is what I have (it's in Italian sorry, but the names are more or less the same from yours):

    WiFi stops working on my laptop when my flatmate's phone is connected-snipsnip.png

    Do you have an idea of what I have to do now?

    Thank you!
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  8. Posts : 9,788
    Mac OS Catalina
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    Gnottino90 said:
    He's not streaming or anything. He just walks in the house, his phone automatically connects to the WiFi and my laptop's internet goes crazy. It doesn't happen with any of the other phones in the apartment.
    Sorry to tell you this again. The other party is streaming either movies or running a Torrent Server somehow.

    The biggest clue about download speeds stopping, is either someone in control of the Gateway, is knocking you off, or he just pushes enough data for the QOS (Quality Of Service) gets changed to where he has the majority of data.

    If you want to track what is going on. Find out if there is a server running Smoke Ping to allow you to monitor the activity in spikes and dips. See About SmokePing Tools FAQ | DSLReports, ISP Information for more info on how Smoke Ping testing works.

    DSL Reports also has some other good tools. Speed tests, ping tests and bandwidth tools | DSLReports, ISP Information
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  9. Posts : 376
    Windows 10 Home 64-bit Edition
       #9

    There is a newer genetic driver available. go in Device Manager, Network Adapter, right click on Realtek RTL8188EE and update, driver date will be 11-4-2017.
    I call it genetic cause its from Microsoft WHQl - Windows Head Quarter lab.
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