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PC not connecting to Xfi pods
I have 2 xfi pods in my house the main gateway is in the basement way down in the corner of the room… the first xfi pod is in the living room on the first floor, and the second is in the center of the house just outside my bedroom on the second floor. Yet for some reason my gaming computer (which is on the 2nd floor in my room) is defaulting to the gateway everytime… my phone will connect to the closest pod and so will my work computer and PS5 that are all in my room, but for some reason my gaming PC gets defaulted to the gateway that’s all the way in the basement behind walls and floors of obstructions, completely bypassing both the closest pod in the second floor and the 2nd closest pod in the first floor in the living room… why is this?
XfinityRoberto
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1.7K Messages
1 year ago
Hi there and welcome to Comcast @user_2b9wig. Thank you so much for reaching out to us about your PC connecting to the gateway and not the xFi Pod. You are in the right place and I am happy to assist you today. Have you forgotten the network connection on you PC and restarted your Pod?
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user_7g6iny
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1 year ago
Were you able to find an answer to this issue? I’m having the same problem.
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zandor60657
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204 Messages
1 year ago
What sort of speed are you getting on the gaming PC? Is it faster or slower than your work computer on a speed test? Actually that might not be a good test if it's a work issued PC. I had one that couldn't do more than 500Mbps because of all of the security software scanning everything that came in from the network. CPU load hit 100% and it topped out at 500Mbps. PS5 might not be ideal either (I don't have any experience with them), and phones definitely aren't. I've never had any luck getting a phone to download as fast as a decent laptop that isn't significantly older, and gaming consoles are optimized for online gaming. Gaming favors latency over throughput, so one would expect a PS5 to favor ping over download speed. It's a trade-off, and making ping as low as possible comes at the expense of maximum throughput.
There's more to WiFi specs than 5, 6, 6e and 2.4, 5, or 6GHz. You've got spatial streams, channel width, how good your antenna is, transmit power, etc. If you have a "gaming" WiFi adapter it could easily have more streams, a better antenna and draw a lot more power than a normal laptop. "Gaming" stuff tends to be higher spec than most other desktops, laptops and phones, so it wouldn't surprise me if your gaming PC had a high powered WiFi adapter, nice antenna, more than the usual 2 streams, etc. Clients decide which WiFi access point they connect to, and if you have fancy "gaming" WiFi on your gaming PC it might actually be faster to go straight to the router.
So how's the network performance on your gaming PC?
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