Why is it harder for my mobile to connect to wifi than other mobiles?

Hi,

It seems you are not alone in this, there are apparently quite a few people experiencing problems with connectivity on the Pixel 7.

Here’s an interesting article from Piunikaweb website, that may or may not sort out your issue but certainly there’s plenty of options to try:

https://piunikaweb.com/2023/07/03/google...

It’s a long article with lots of information and steps to try in several different approaches, it would pay to read them all and then decide which ones you are comfortable trying.

Hope this helps

Often times the issue is your AP router offers two bands the 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz. Your phone is snagging the slower 2.4 band whereas your husband’s phone is snagging the faster 5.0 band.

I often find the AP’s naming is the root cause of this. Think it this way, you have two Karen’s in a room you want to get the attention of one of them but the wrong one responds. So you try again this time yelling out for Karen 5 vs Karen 2.4! Now you’ve gotten the correct one to respond. So basically we want to alter the AP’s names for the discrete bands so you can connect to the one you want the faster 5.0GHz.

As to why you always connect to the slower has to do with what you connected first before as that’s cached. Sometimes just clearing the saved WiFi credentials for the AP will allow the other band to be grabbed. But then again we get back into which Karen responds problem!

Distance matters here as the 2.4GHz band has a longer reach, so get within 12 ft or so of the AP to try to reset the cached band. This may take a few tries. Which is why I prefer renaming the AP bands as then you know you’ve connected to the band you want.