For several days in a row I have been getting 180-350 megabits according to speed test. This is unusual behavior for my ATV which normally drops down after a day or two until it gets so slow I need to reboot. I know my landlord replaced the modem but not the router for the home network and only him and I use the WIFI. Perhaps apple fixed bugs affecting my situation with their latest release?
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Did TVOS 15.5.1 fix bugs?
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Based off of your previous posts, anything over 50Mbps would be overkill for what you do with your Apple TV.
Are you having buffering issues or other network related issues? If not, I wouldn't worry about the speed drop.
If you are really concerned with getting faster speeds on your ATV even though it wouldn't have any impact on what you do with it, I suspect that it is most likely network related and probably not a SW or HW issue with your ATV. I would start with the router.
BTW, if you are using the Speed Test app for on your Apple TV to test the speed, try a different server. It could be that your connection is fine, it is just defaulting to a crappy server on the app.
I have definitely tried different servers. No I am only concerned about having to reboot once a week which is annoying. Perhaps its a router issue which I do not have access too. Or perhaps not.
Why do you need to reboot? Is this only to get faster than 180Mbps speeds? Or is there other problems?
If it is only to get the speeds higher than 180Mbps, why not just ignore it since there is not any problems impacting your ATV experience.
Because it gets to be like 1-5 megabits which can’t do anything. However as I mentioned I have not yet had to do this since TVOS 15.5.1.
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were saying that the speed was dropping to 180Mbps.
As mentioned before, many times and by many posters, this is very likely a "landlord has total control over the router" issue. I've heard little or no reports from other users having to reboot their ATV 4K on a weekly basis to get enough bandwidth through Wi-Fi to stream. A consistent 25 Mbps speed is sufficient for even 4K TV streaming. If you are getting up to 180+ Mbps speed but having it drop far down to 1 to 5 Mbps, that is in all likelihood an issue with the router. The best solution would be to keep annoying the landlord until he gives in and allows you to run an ethernet line from the router to the ATV 4K.
If he won't allow that, then explore using a powerline ethernet adapter. These have two small adapters that plug into an AC wall socket. Plug one adapter in near the router and run an ethernet cable from the router to the power adapter. No need to run a cable through walls or anything. Plug the other power adapter in near your ATV 4K and run an ethernet cable from it to the ATV 4K. The two powerline ethernet adapter units use the power lines to transmit through rather than antennas, so they should receive better than the small Wi-Fi antenna built into the ATV 4K. Here is one example I found on Amazon. Do some research and see if you can find a good model to buy. Buying from Amazon you have plenty of time to return it if it doesn't work, no questions asked. Note: I haven't tried these, but it sounds like it might be a solution.
If he won't allow that, then explore using a powerline ethernet adapter. These have two small adapters that plug into an AC wall socket. Plug one adapter in near the router and run an ethernet cable from the router to the power adapter. No need to run a cable through walls or anything. Plug the other power adapter in near your ATV 4K and run an ethernet cable from it to the ATV 4K. The two powerline ethernet adapter units use the power lines to transmit through rather than antennas, so they should receive better than the small Wi-Fi antenna built into the ATV 4K. Here is one example I found on Amazon. Do some research and see if you can find a good model to buy. Buying from Amazon you have plenty of time to return it if it doesn't work, no questions asked. Note: I haven't tried these, but it sounds like it might be a solution.
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Good idea. My room is upstairs and router and modems are downstairs.
When I get my paycheck this looks like an option.
But then again ATV has been behaving as of late so perhaps landlord fixed the problem.
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