I recently started a new WFH job, and anytime I place calls, my VPN disconnects. My Wi-Fi has also gotten considerably weaker as other members of my family have their own Cisco VPNs and place work calls all day. Should I invest in my own standalone Wi-Fi network? I’m very new to all this. Thanks for the help.
My guess would be the weak WiFi signal is the core issue. Once you connect a call there is a larger volume of data over the VPN tunnel and those connections are not tolerant of drops. Too many dropped packets and the VPN tunnel will drop and/or re-establish.
I’d look into what can be done about that, make sure drivers are up to date etc. As for investing if your own stand alone WiFi network, without knowing more about the problem and current setup I couldn’t say if that would help or not.
Whats the feasability of running an Etherner cable from wi-fi router to each computer? It won’t look nice but it will solve a lot of issues.
If everyone is on wi-fi that is the issue 100%. Wi-fi is half duplex, it cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. If it is sending information to any computer, nothing at all in the network can recieve data. If any one computer or more is receiving data, no systems at all on the network are able ro upload voice or data.
So wi-fi is not in any way appropriate for voice or video transmission, and when you add more than one device, the problem becomes twice as problematic for every extra wireless device on the network.
There does not exist a full-duplex wireless device yet, and it has been 32 years since the first wi-fi device was released to the world, so it might be a little while before that happens. So run Ethernet to all computers and it will probably fix the issue.
If it doesn’t, (although it will help massively) then you will seriously want to setup Quality of Service (QoS) settings to prioritize upload over all else. The annoying reality is that most “consumer” (cheap) routers have very limited controls for this type of stuff. I can’t recommend any hardware that contains quality designed software with extensive QoS controls, but there must be something out there.