Issue with my Android cell and WiFi

[+jnelsoninjax 12,183]

So for the last few days, around this time (20:00) thru the morning my Android cell phone seems to have an issue with the local WiFi, and I can not figure out why. The symptoms: While the phone is connected to the WiFi, certain apps (like local news, etc) that require internet, can not get the data needed, but as soon as I shut off the WiFi and switch to 4G, I am able to retrieve the data. This is not just one app, it at least 3 different ones. These all seem to work randomly at night, and it only seems to happen at night. If I was to guess it might have to do with congestion on the channel, everyone is home and using the bandwidth, but considering this just starting happening within the last week, I feel that the issue might be something else. Our router is the Linksys 09371, and the ISP is Comcast, with currently shows a down speed (wired) as 236 Mbs and and an up of around 11 Mbs

[Mindovermaster 2,529]

Might be a long shot, but is your router seeing it as a faster IP release? Does this happen with other wifi devices, or just the phone? Let someone else ask more.

[+jnelsoninjax 12,183]

20 minutes ago, Mindovermaster said:

Might be a long shot, but is your router seeing it as a faster IP release? Does this happen with other wifi devices, or just the phone? Let someone else ask more.

How would I check that? Also, I only notice it with my phone, I can't speak for the other members of the household, but I am really the only one is that uses my phone after this certain time.

[Mindovermaster 2,529]

You should see it on the router. I'm guessing you can connect to it? You can look on the router and see if it drops your phone connection, for example.

[DaveLegg 1,012]

You don't have any 'parental controls' set on the router to limit access after a certain time of day?

[+jnelsoninjax 12,183]

11 minutes ago, DaveLegg said:

You don't have any 'parental controls' set on the router to limit access after a certain time of day?

No, that was the first thing I thought of as well, I have made sure that everything like that was disabled. I also am not 100% certain if the issue is the router or the cell phone.

[Mindovermaster 2,529]

Yea, make sure all parental stuff on the phone is off, too...

[+jnelsoninjax 12,183]

10 minutes ago, Mindovermaster said:

Yea, make sure all parental stuff on the phone is off, too...

Never had it setup, nor do I know how to!

[+jnelsoninjax 12,183]

OK I have diagnosed the issue down to AdGuard. It uses a VPN to transfer the data, if I pause it, suddenly everything loads... I am going to open an trouble ticket with AdGuard about this.

[Mindovermaster 2,529]

Glad you got this sorted. Never knew this was a thing...

 

Edit: Let us know what AdGuard says about this...

[+jnelsoninjax 12,183]

46 minutes ago, Mindovermaster said:

Glad you got this sorted. Never knew this was a thing...

 

Edit: Let us know what AdGuard says about this...

I will post an update with any info received from AdGuard.

[+jnelsoninjax 12,183]

So after doing so more poking around in the settings, I disabled https, because I recalled having an issue with it before and some apps did not work with https enabled, so I disabled it and suddenly everything works just fine... can anyone shed some light on what might cause this?

[+jnelsoninjax 12,183]

OK, so disabling https did not solve the issue, but AdGuard support suggested changing the DNS server, so I changed it to Cloudfare from Adguard and it appears to be working at the moment!