Bob, are you having a bad day? Putting an emoji at the end of a sentence doesn't make YOU less pedantic.

As the OP never told us how he was connecting and Xray had already asked for more info, I just tried to make things a little clearer.

You flounder. (Verb, not noun).

I have EE smart Hub 2. Why is this relevant. The icon on the taskbar takes about 10 to 15 seconds to change to indicate connection to my wifi. It could be my laptop is slow!!.

There's a lot of work going on when a device connects to a WiFi network - handshaking, determination of highest standard to use, password checking, acquisition of IP address, etc. 10 to 15 seconds isn't an unduly long time to complete a connection, in my experience.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kb7993/why-it-tak...

Are you initiating the connection manually or is this the time it is taking after the laptop has fully booted. Normally if a device is connected to WiFi as a default then it gets the connection before the boot has finished. But, if you are manually connecting then 10 to 15 seconds doesn't sound an inordinately long time.

In reply to a post by samulam:

I have EE smart Hub 2. Why is this relevant.

Three possible reasons.

1) As has been discussed in the thread, you could have been talking about Home Mobile Broadband. Not landline broadband. There are many on these forums that no longer use landline broadband, me being one of them. (See my sig).

Knowing the router tells us which.

2) It�s quite possible that a particular router is known to have a fixable problem of this kind.

3) With anything except the simplest of computer, broadband, WiFi or related problems where the answer is often well-known to �geeks�, an experienced diagnostician needs the maximum possible information.

Which you subconsciously realised, because you posted in the Windows forum so we can be fairly sure of the OS, you told us the make of the laptop, you told us the provider of the service and by implication that the router is also from EE. All of those are relevant .

It could well be your lappy is slow. Which model is it? 15 sec doesn't seem long to me on initial connection.

Try separating the wireless channels of the EE Smart Hub. On the Advanced / Wireless Settings page of the SH there is a button near the top to Separate the Bands. Turn it ON. Then the 5GHz SSID will appear starting with "5GHz-" & the 2.4 GHz SSID not starting with "5GHz-". Then get the lappy to connect to most suitable SSID.for it.

This might take a few secs of decision making out of the router . You can always turn it back if it doesn't help.

Edited by XRaySpeX (Wed 13-Nov-19 00:53:04)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

That may well be, though it is becoming quite common on these forums for newbies using any provider. As in �my broadband is running slow�, but their router stats are fine and they are on a reputable supplier. It is their wireless connection that is suspect.

And so too may be their use of a wireless link in the first place.

From the man that brought you the idea that one should never, ever, give up having a traditional hard-wired POTS phone in addition to whatever else you have comes the equally firm suggestion that one should never, ever, use wireless links for anything, networking, light switches, door bells, CH controls - the list goes on and on - if wired is an option.

And if that means flood-wiring your house with Cat# cabling then so be it.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In the 20th century �wireless� was a noun.

And in the 19th it was an adjective.

In reply to a post by Scientistnsaint:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In the 20th century �wireless� was a noun.

And in the 19th it was an adjective.

Indeed. But your advice in this post shows you have no real concept of consumer demand in the 21st.

Providing water taps on all street corners instead of direct to houses would even now save a huge amount of money. Less used, less lost by leakage, less sewage, smaller or fewer reservoirs and purification plants.

Plus fitter people from the exercise of collecting and carrying it, so less pressure on the NHS. And so on and so on .