topic Re: 85” Sony Bravia keeps dropping wifi in Android TV

85” Sony Bravia keeps dropping wifi

Snoozy402 — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:58:04 GMT

I purchased an 85” Sony Bravia TV 3 weeks ago. Whilst I am watching films on Wi-fi the TV keeps disconnecting Wi-fi. I live in a big house with no near neighbours. We have a Tenda Wi-fi booster located next to the TV so the connection is excellent. All other Wi-fi enabled devices such as iPads and phones do not drop the Wi-fi connection despite being further away from the source that the TV. Is there an automatic timer set up to disconnect Wi-fi or is there an issue with my new TV?

Re: 85” Sony Bravia keeps dropping wifi

Pascale_F — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 08:58:19 GMT

Hi Snoozy402,

Welcome to the community.

I'll just try to find some answers for you. In the meantime, maybe someone else in the community might have some ideas.

Thanks,

Pascale

Re: 85” Sony Bravia keeps dropping wifi

rooobb — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:03:33 GMT

This kind of problem is almost 90% caused by something wrong in the network that is really hard to analyze not being at your home. I would bypass everything by cabling the tv since the repeater is so close.

Re: 85” Sony Bravia keeps dropping wifi

Snoozy402 — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:47:25 GMT

Thanks for the advice. When you say cabling the T.V do you mean putting an Ethernet cable from the TV to the virgin Wi-fi hub?

Re: 85” Sony Bravia keeps dropping wifi

rooobb — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:01:08 GMT

Yes or if you cannot set up a couple of powerlink

Re: 85” Sony Bravia keeps dropping wifi

Snoozy402 — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:51:10 GMT

Thanks. I have attached an Ethernet cable from the back of the tenda booster box to the TV so will see how it gets on tonight as I don’t have a long enough cable to attach it to the router directly. If that solves the problem does it indicate what the actual issue is with? I am concerned that if I want to add wireless devices to the TV at a later date they will suffer the same issue. Thanks so much for your advice. I will post again if the direct connection stops the TV dropping Wi-fi.

Re: 85” Sony Bravia keeps dropping wifi

rooobb — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:54:09 GMT

It is hard to say...there can lot of issues in the channel chosen or some drop in the line in some routers ...a wired connection is always the best solution

Re: 85” Sony Bravia keeps dropping wifi

Snoozy402 — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:39:37 GMT

Thanks Rooobb. The wired connection to the tenda nova Wi-fi extender is allowing us to watch movies via Wi-fi. Thanks for your help..... Much appreciated.