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DaveyJakes
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Google Fiber Ethernet can't work with Stadia.

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This is an issue with others, as I've seen on this subreddit from posts over a year old. I have a Google TV dongle connected to Ethernet, and my stadia controller is on my 5ghz Google Fiber wifi network. Every 10 or so seconds, all the inputs I'm currently doing on my controller stops. For example, I'll be holding up on the left thumbstick to move my character forward, and after 10 seconds the character will suddenly stop moving even though I have not stopped holding the thumbstick up. I have to move the thumbstick in a new direction in order for the controller to sense my input again. As you could guess, this is a big pain.

I reached out to Google Stadia via Facebook Messenger. I got a response pretty quickly and the person on the other end helped me try to troubleshoot the problem via my Google Fiber router. No solution presented itself, and I asked him if he had heard of this problem before and he had not but said that he would look into it.

I'm wondering if anyone else here has run into this problem and has a different fix other than getting an entirely different router to run the Google TV off of. Also, I'll add that I've tried to put the controller and the Google TV dongle on the same 5 GHz frequency Wi-Fi channel and for some reason the connection a performance of whatever game I'm playing plummets to an unplayable state. I'd like to keep using the ethernet cable with my Google TV as that gives me a rock solid performance.

Any help or input into this would be greatly appreciated!

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codesplice
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Hi @DaveyJakes,

I've got Google Fiber but haven't used their Network Box since before Stadia launched, though I do recall some weird Wifi issues from when I was using the NB. For a while I had a Google Wifi router node downstream from the NB and that was more stable and consistent (despite the double-NAT). Then I opted in to the "bring your own router" program so I could plug the Google Wifi unit directly into the Fiber Jack and ditch the NB completely. And then I upgraded to the 2 Gig plan and used that Gateway + Mesh extender. I'm back on the 1 Gig plan but still using the 2 Gig Gateway with my Google Wifi nodes downstream from that. (Now I wish that I could switch back to the own-router setup but that's apparently not an option after trying 2 Gig.)

All that is to say that I think their NB is kind of garbage, and you may want to consider bringing your own router to Google Fiber. That would likely be your easiest fix for this issue, and it will provide you with additional control to further improve your network.

If that's not an option, you might see about splitting your 2.4GHz and 5 GHz networks to two separate SSIDs (if you haven't already) and connecting both the controller and TV to the 2.4GHz network (since you had poor performance with the 5GHz one). 5GHz Wifi is capable of faster speeds under ideal conditions, but the higher frequency doesn't travel as well through walls and other obstacles. The signal strength can drop off rapidly, and a weak 5GHz network will actually perform worse than a stronger 2.4GHz one. 

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codesplice
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Hi @DaveyJakes,

I've got Google Fiber but haven't used their Network Box since before Stadia launched, though I do recall some weird Wifi issues from when I was using the NB. For a while I had a Google Wifi router node downstream from the NB and that was more stable and consistent (despite the double-NAT). Then I opted in to the "bring your own router" program so I could plug the Google Wifi unit directly into the Fiber Jack and ditch the NB completely. And then I upgraded to the 2 Gig plan and used that Gateway + Mesh extender. I'm back on the 1 Gig plan but still using the 2 Gig Gateway with my Google Wifi nodes downstream from that. (Now I wish that I could switch back to the own-router setup but that's apparently not an option after trying 2 Gig.)

All that is to say that I think their NB is kind of garbage, and you may want to consider bringing your own router to Google Fiber. That would likely be your easiest fix for this issue, and it will provide you with additional control to further improve your network.

If that's not an option, you might see about splitting your 2.4GHz and 5 GHz networks to two separate SSIDs (if you haven't already) and connecting both the controller and TV to the 2.4GHz network (since you had poor performance with the 5GHz one). 5GHz Wifi is capable of faster speeds under ideal conditions, but the higher frequency doesn't travel as well through walls and other obstacles. The signal strength can drop off rapidly, and a weak 5GHz network will actually perform worse than a stronger 2.4GHz one. 

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