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That's interesting, because you've identified the reason I asked the question - on my TP-Link router wired connections just flood out wireless connections, and make them unusable as long as I'm doing anything heavy (like downloading ISOs).

The solution's not going to be found in the firmware, is it?

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Yes, in general, having a better router would probably help (although you haven't mentioned the exact model you have, maybe it's already fine and the problem is elsewhere).

Enabling SQM [1] would probably mitigate the issue further, at the cost of requiring more processing power.

[1] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/traffic-shaping/...

I didn't want to bog HN down in doing my tech support for me, but since you ask it's a TP-Link AC1200 (https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/wifi-router/arche...). I'm not doing anything meaty with it most of the time.

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