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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I wonder if newer devices have different requirements from routers? I've bought several new routers (not spending more than $100) and on all of them, a one year old iPad mini (probably not the 2) has trouble with movies, while my older iPad v2 and my macbook air laptop are fine.
I did finally read about a helpful hint, that is helping in my case: log into the router, go to any page which has an APPLY button. Don't make any changes, but hit APPLY anyway. This resets the router, and apparently empties some buffers or stored data (which even a power cycle didn't fix?? or at least, it's faster than a power cycle) and allows the iPad 2 to get 5-10 minute videos to work. I never watch anything long, so I don't know if it would help there. But it HAS helped get short clips to work.
So I do it regularly now, *before* the trouble starts to crop up. PS you are resetting the router, so don't do it WHILE your son is watching something!
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Never heard to doing that with the router. Just don't see how that would affect the modem's performance.