Smart TV slowing down our wifi speed question...?

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Ok, we have the regular modem/router from Frontier that they first installed and we also now have a spare Netgea N600 Router. We have a Vizio Smart TV upstairs and when it runs online (example:Netflix) the wifi in the rest of the house runs at a substantially slower pace for the rest of the devices causing lagging or low quality videos and very slow load times. Was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to fix this or any tips or if there is anything we could do with that netgear router to help with being able to run multiple devices in the house without the slow sleep or lagging? Does the Smart TV take more internet that a regular stream device would? ( Example: Apple TV) Would it be wiser to just buy a cheap Roku or Roku 2 to set up in the upstairs Smart TV and run that instead to help the internet speed for the rest of the house? Thanks.

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The more devices you have connected to your router the more bandwidth (your internet speed ) that gets used up. If you have a device that is streaming the likes of video or doing a lot of other heavy internet things like downloading then that device is being even more greedy and is basically hogging all of the bandwidth slowing everything up.

In other words your smart TV is being greedy and is not leaving any internet for your other devices to use hence why it is slow. It doesn't matter if its an Apple TV or not what matter is what the device is doing. Downloading or streaming video will hog more bandwidth than just casually browsing on the internet.

There are a few things you can do to help this. You can either get more bandwidth i.e. a faster internet speed such as fiber broadband or reduce heavy internet usage i.e. streaming videos. You could use a stronger router such as N+ and position the TV closer to the signal.

Streaming video really requires a fast internet connection like fiber optics especially in HD it has more bandwidth so more devices can connect and do things without slowing everything down.