Wi-fi connectivity issues

PaulJM

Hi,

We have a lot of wireless devices across our house - TV's, IPOD's, Android and IoS units, laptops, both work and home.

They all connect into a decent, year old TP link router, with a good signal around the house.

I've started getting intermittent disconnections on a acer Laptop (yeah, I know they're not great, but as a sum of its parts, it's fine) - needing to reset its network adapter to re-establish.
My Android phone will find the router about 50% of the time, the IoS devices cope with it the best of the lot - they have very short wi-fi outages, and a HP laptop is better too, and stays connected a lot of the time.

I still don't really know if it's a problem with the individual thing - I know the ACER does have issues, but I've tried everything that's suggested on the internet.

I'm wondering whether it's channel issue on the router - I've got insiddder, and I can see about 5 others close using ch1, and others on 11 and 7. Mine, weirdly, is saying 0 + 4294967292??? but will usually say 1 and 7.

I can alter it, but the internet is full of conflicting advice on this - some say that if you move to a channel other that 1, 7 or 11, it'll take the bandwidth off the other channels.
But then again, this might not be the issue! HELP!