topic Re: Stadia Controller Weirdness in The Stadia Controller

Stadia Controller Weirdness

spaghammer — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 21:16:42 GMT

My Stadia controller works with the stadia app on my Chromecast just fine, but anytime I go into a game, for example Rise of the Tomb Raider, it drifts and disconnects. Is there anyway to fix this currently or is it just a weird bug?

Re: Stadia Controller Weirdness

Mad_Dog_Bravo — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 21:32:23 GMT

@spaghammer : Not seen this behaviour reported before. Obviously the controller is connected to a WiFi access point, is this access point in close proximity to the controller, e.g. same room? Did you setup the controller to access a 5Ghz WiFi frequency or a 2.4Ghz frequency?

Re: Stadia Controller Weirdness

spaghammer — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:36:21 GMT

I'm not 100% sure what the frequency of the wireless is, but there is a signal booster in the same room. Would that help?

Re: Stadia Controller Weirdness

Mad_Dog_Bravo — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 09:30:25 GMT

@spaghammer : If you are able to login to the WiFi access point you should be able to see if it is setup for 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz, a lot of dual frequency access points give the ability to setup to SSId's, one for each frequency, so if you are using a booster, might be worthwhile checking if it is boosting a 2.4Ghz or a 5Ghz signal. Hard to second guess without knowning more about the devices and their configuration, but I kinda suspect that you might be running over a 2.4Ghz frequency which should work, but 5Ghz is certainly the recommended solution.

It might be better to see if there is anyway that you can reliably check the performance of your WiFi speeds from the same room that your controller is in too, because it might be something as simple as a poor WiFi coverage that is having the impact on your controller.

Finally, if it is possible to run a test with a TV/Stadia in the same room that your WiFi access point is situated that might be able to identify if the issue still remains or only occurs in that specific room that you are currently running it from.

Re: Stadia Controller Weirdness

Furyian — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 05:46:53 GMT

My controller acts the same way. It just doesn't connect the way it should. It's in the same wifi network but still has issues connecting.

Re: Stadia Controller Weirdness

Arabon — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:50:14 GMT

This fixed it for me. I noticed a big difference when I switched from 2.4Gz to 5.Gz. I also but a Google WiFi extender in the opposite end of my gaming area in order to improve the connectivity. See if switch Gz channels fixes it, otherwise try a WiFi extender if you can.

Re: Stadia Controller Weirdness

JaviPlater — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 08:47:32 GMT

I have the same problem and I'm sure that I'm using the 5Ghz wifi's band. This is something weird because I've been using Stadia around one month before the problems started and I thought that this could be related to some kind of update...It doesn't happens all time but lately comes 3 or 4 times each 30 mins...

Re: Stadia Controller Weirdness

ChrisFromGoogle — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:30:20 GMT

Hi all, this may be an issue related to traffic on your particular wireless band. I suggest looking into changing your wireless access point's unique band, as the standard 2.4GHz frequency may have a lot of interference, while the 5GHz frequency has more open channels. You can also further customize this, depending on the firmware of your wireless router.