5:56 Using Sonos WiFi speakers, I faced the same problem! Once again, huge thanks you for the calm, precise explanation in this video too, and for explaining in such detail the background of what is happening, the pros and cons, etc...
I have 26 devices on my TP-Link network using Smart Connect. Never had a problem with it configuring the network and all my devices working properly including streaming uncompressed music wirelessly via 6 different devices throughout my house.
That’s great to hear! I’m sure Smart Connect will only continue to get “smarter” moving forward as it pertains to certain devices that may only be able to connect to 2.4G networks (e.g IoT devices). Thank you for sharing this
Smart connect should be called 2.4G WiFi only Lol. That’s what I found using it for a week as a test. Why would you want to not have 5G for devices closer to your router is beyond me. Great video btw! My router was a nice Netgear router but still did this when enabled so it’s a bad choice to use IMO.
I would say benefits of smart connect far outweigh disadvantages discussed here or otherwise. Smart connect is really great if you have used it at all.
Depending upon the devices in your home network, I agree that Smart Connect can be very useful. I just wouldn’t recommend it if you have a lot of different types of wireless devices in your home network
@@network-from-home Primarily most legacy devices will only connect to 2.4Ghz and majority of newer devices to 5Ghz. There's already quite a distinction. Not everyone has same problem as you and 95% + people will actually benefit from smart connect. Unfortunately by default it's disabled and 90% people do not even know the difference.
What bastardly speakers are these? I guarantee you TCP/IP protocol does not care what you're using at the physical layer (of the 7-layer OSI model). It can't differentiate whether you're using 2.4Ghz wifi, 5Ghz wifi, copper-wired ethernet, fibre-optic ethernet, homeplugs which bridge ethernet over the power wiring though your house etc... the whole point of your modern consumer home "router/modem" is that it isn't really just a router, it's really also a bridge, switch & access-point all-in-one device which makes all those different mediums transparent to two IP devices on your 'network'. The only way you should be having trouble unless they're both on the same Wifi network, is : 1:) if the laptop has to talk to the speakers via direct wifi between said 2 devices instead of through your router wifi connection, in which case your laptop wouldn't be able to simultaneously connect to your router wifi or internet which is shitty. No playing spotify or youtube or netflix through your home speakers unless you plug in wired ethernet to connect to internet at same time? I don't think this is the case. 2:) if the software itself was doing some stupid additional check that both devices were working on the same frequency & connected to the same SSID wifi name. Here's the thing - If it's doing this stupid unnecessary check, it has to be doing it over a working IP link in the first place - whether that's being bridged between two different Wifi frequencies or not. So if it can do that over the IP link why can't it just send the audio stream over the very same IP link? If this is truly what's happening then that's an abomination. And that begs the question - what if your laptop is plugged in via copper ethernet (e.g. CAT5/6 cable) and not using Wifi at all? Do your speakers refuse to work in this case because they don't see the laptop on the same wifi? Ridiculous...the whole point of IP Protocol is so that it doesn't much care how two packets get delivered between two different IP nodes (your laptop, and your speaker), that's a lower layer problem which routers, bridges & switches (and access points) take care of using lower layer protocols (such as 802.11 Ethernet, and various physical medium encoding schemes which might be radio waves on various frequencies, electrical signals through copper wire, or pulses of light through fibre optic). The end devices just shouldn't care.
agreed, I don't use smart connect in my home network but have laptop and android phone in 5GHz network by default, wireless printer and soundbar in 2,4 GHz network and never had a problem printing or streaming. Cannot imagine that only Asus knows how to deal with this, pretty sure it should be standard for all routers!
I get your point but your title is a bit misleading, I have lights that automatically go to the 2.4Ghz band and I don't have any issues, as you said, if people ask whether they should use 2.4 or 5, they already have some basic knowledge on what that actually is and can modify it to their needs if they want to!
@iwishyouwould I think that's a great point. For low-bandwidth devices, utilizing WiFi Smart Connect won't have much of an impact. It's the devices that perform high-bandwidth operations that this may have more of an impact on. For those that are not tech savvy (and aren't interested in learning more about there home network), WiFi Smart Connect will most likely work just fine. They just might not be maximizing the performance of their network. Thanks for your feedback!
@@network-from-home I tried turning it off and on and for me it seems to be impacting my devices positively! But yeah, those who aren’t aware might not even know the benefits it has, let alone benefit from them!
I guess my argument is that the smart function isn’t as smart as advertised. For me personally, I would rather control what network my devices are connecting to so that they get the best performance
@@network-from-home lagacy (2g/3g) cellular network uses a bit better version of essentially the same thing. Modern (4g and 5g) cellular and modern WIFI (DBS - dual band simultaneous) use even better version of what legacy cellular uses. So, jump into DBS (or carrier aggregation from cellular side) bandwagon. Here device stays connected to ALL CURRENTLY AVAIABLE BANDS simultaneously. No more useless switching from one band to anouther.
Thank you for the feedback. Making my videos more precise has been something I have been working on, so hopefully my more recent videos are more engaging
5:56 Using Sonos WiFi speakers, I faced the same problem!
Once again, huge thanks you for the calm, precise explanation in this video too, and for explaining in such detail the background of what is happening, the pros and cons, etc...
You're very welcome. Thanks again for the feedback!
I have 26 devices on my TP-Link network using Smart Connect. Never had a problem with it configuring the network and all my devices working properly including streaming uncompressed music wirelessly via 6 different devices throughout my house.
That’s great to hear! I’m sure Smart Connect will only continue to get “smarter” moving forward as it pertains to certain devices that may only be able to connect to 2.4G networks (e.g IoT devices). Thank you for sharing this
Great explanation. And explains why chrome TV and my phone don't always connect. Thanks!
Thank you very much! And thank you for checking out the video!
Smart connect should be called 2.4G WiFi only Lol. That’s what I found using it for a week as a test. Why would you want to not have 5G for devices closer to your router is beyond me. Great video btw! My router was a nice Netgear router but still did this when enabled so it’s a bad choice to use IMO.
Thanks for the feedback! I agree with you: I would much rather be in control of the WiFi networks that my devices connect to
I would say benefits of smart connect far outweigh disadvantages discussed here or otherwise.
Smart connect is really great if you have used it at all.
Depending upon the devices in your home network, I agree that Smart Connect can be very useful. I just wouldn’t recommend it if you have a lot of different types of wireless devices in your home network
@@network-from-home Primarily most legacy devices will only connect to 2.4Ghz and majority of newer devices to 5Ghz. There's already quite a distinction. Not everyone has same problem as you and 95% + people will actually benefit from smart connect. Unfortunately by default it's disabled and 90% people do not even know the difference.
@@network-from-home Another biggest advantage is seamless transition when moving away as 2.4Ghz always will have greater coverage.
This is a fair point. I was just sharing my opinion in this video, surely there are plenty of people that like Smart Connect!
Gracias, Muy buena información! 👍
De nada! @Marqz23
I mean...a lot of people don't HAVE wireless speakers set up all around the house with the desire to control any of them with one laptop.
Only real dullards use smart connect under any circumstance.
I'm pretty sure my devices connected to 2.4Ghz network can ping my devices in 5Ghz. That shouldn't be an issue. Invalid point.
What bastardly speakers are these?
I guarantee you TCP/IP protocol does not care what you're using at the physical layer (of the 7-layer OSI model). It can't differentiate whether you're using 2.4Ghz wifi, 5Ghz wifi, copper-wired ethernet, fibre-optic ethernet, homeplugs which bridge ethernet over the power wiring though your house etc... the whole point of your modern consumer home "router/modem" is that it isn't really just a router, it's really also a bridge, switch & access-point all-in-one device which makes all those different mediums transparent to two IP devices on your 'network'.
The only way you should be having trouble unless they're both on the same Wifi network, is :
1:) if the laptop has to talk to the speakers via direct wifi between said 2 devices instead of through your router wifi connection, in which case your laptop wouldn't be able to simultaneously connect to your router wifi or internet which is shitty. No playing spotify or youtube or netflix through your home speakers unless you plug in wired ethernet to connect to internet at same time? I don't think this is the case.
2:) if the software itself was doing some stupid additional check that both devices were working on the same frequency & connected to the same SSID wifi name. Here's the thing - If it's doing this stupid unnecessary check, it has to be doing it over a working IP link in the first place - whether that's being bridged between two different Wifi frequencies or not. So if it can do that over the IP link why can't it just send the audio stream over the very same IP link? If this is truly what's happening then that's an abomination.
And that begs the question - what if your laptop is plugged in via copper ethernet (e.g. CAT5/6 cable) and not using Wifi at all? Do your speakers refuse to work in this case because they don't see the laptop on the same wifi? Ridiculous...the whole point of IP Protocol is so that it doesn't much care how two packets get delivered between two different IP nodes (your laptop, and your speaker), that's a lower layer problem which routers, bridges & switches (and access points) take care of using lower layer protocols (such as 802.11 Ethernet, and various physical medium encoding schemes which might be radio waves on various frequencies, electrical signals through copper wire, or pulses of light through fibre optic). The end devices just shouldn't care.
This is what I think too
agreed, I don't use smart connect in my home network but have laptop and android phone in 5GHz network by default, wireless printer and soundbar in 2,4 GHz network and never had a problem printing or streaming. Cannot imagine that only Asus knows how to deal with this, pretty sure it should be standard for all routers!
I get your point but your title is a bit misleading, I have lights that automatically go to the 2.4Ghz band and I don't have any issues, as you said, if people ask whether they should use 2.4 or 5, they already have some basic knowledge on what that actually is and can modify it to their needs if they want to!
@iwishyouwould I think that's a great point. For low-bandwidth devices, utilizing WiFi Smart Connect won't have much of an impact. It's the devices that perform high-bandwidth operations that this may have more of an impact on. For those that are not tech savvy (and aren't interested in learning more about there home network), WiFi Smart Connect will most likely work just fine. They just might not be maximizing the performance of their network. Thanks for your feedback!
@@network-from-home I tried turning it off and on and for me it seems to be impacting my devices positively! But yeah, those who aren’t aware might not even know the benefits it has, let alone benefit from them!
Can I use smart wifi with my Alexa speakers? I'm guessing it might be different than your speaker system since each device has direct access to router
Just simply avoid anything "Smart" and you'll be fine.
That’s not a bad idea!
Good info but keep it simple buddy.
Thank you! I have been trying to make my videos more concise, so hopefully my more recent videos are more simplistic. Thank you for the feedback
I worded it incorrectly. It was indented as a compliment "keeping it simple"
Great job!
In that case, thank you very much! I appreciate it
So we shouldn't use really smart functions (like ANY 2G - 5G cellular network ALREADY USES) just beacouse your wireless speakers are dumm???
I guess my argument is that the smart function isn’t as smart as advertised. For me personally, I would rather control what network my devices are connecting to so that they get the best performance
@@network-from-home lagacy (2g/3g) cellular network uses a bit better version of essentially the same thing. Modern (4g and 5g) cellular and modern WIFI (DBS - dual band simultaneous) use even better version of what legacy cellular uses.
So, jump into DBS (or carrier aggregation from cellular side) bandwagon. Here device stays connected to ALL CURRENTLY AVAIABLE BANDS simultaneously. No more useless switching from one band to anouther.
too many inaccuracies in this guru explanations to list .. [next]
Lot of talk a lot but say nothing in ten minutes
You are sooooooooooooooo long on something that can be said in 3min. tops!
Bored the heck out of me.
Thank you for the feedback. Making my videos more precise has been something I have been working on, so hopefully my more recent videos are more engaging
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