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For ages now, I have been happily running in my home wifi network with my macbook pro, a moto x (1st gen), an android tablet, a Playbook & even my AV amp. Often more than one at the same time.
So far, all good. No connection issues, save the odd ISP hiccup.
Recently, I acquired a new Moto X Pure Edition phone running android marshmallow.
I started migrating everything from the old moto x to it & connected to the wifi network, as per usual.
Suddenly my default browser (Safari) decides to hang as soon as the new phone is on the network. Just this browser
I have other browsers installed (firefox, chrome, tor et al) to test my forum on so I can be sure it works on them all.
Oddly, none of the other browsers seem affected. Just Safari. Done all the reboots, cache clearing, router diagnostics, fiddled with Safari settings & even all the wifi/ network settings, but to no avail. I get about 3 minutes & then it all snarls up again.
So, this is a long shot, but I know there are some IT professionals in our ranks & wondered if anyone had any ideas what I should probably be looking at next?
Have asked on both moto user's & safari support forums & no working solutions this far.

Thanks in advance

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where was basil?

I've also tried with him outside aswell as inside

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Reinstall the app.

markfiend wrote:Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

This didn't occur to me.

Also done a clean install of safari.

Thing that's most puzzling is the fact that the new phone seems to trigger it & that it's ONLY safari that carks.

Can you monitor connections on your wifi router? I'd bet that there's a conflict between a connection id or hardware id that your phone uses and the same as is used by Safari.

mh wrote:Can you monitor connections on your wifi router? I'd bet that there's a conflict between a connection id or hardware id that your phone uses and the same as is used by Safari.

I did have a poke around in the router interface & all the id's & devices appear to have unique names & IPs etc.
You got a specific setting in mind I should be prodding in particular?

This is a long shot, but try turning off "N" on the wireless router and just run with the older "G" and below.

limur wrote:This is a long shot, but try turning off "N" on the wireless router and just run with the older "G" and below.

Wow!
That seems to have done the trick.
I'll keep an eye on it though. I thought I'd cracked it with a tweak to the user agent setting a day or so ago & it wasn't long before it hung all over again.
Thanks for the tip

Pista wrote:Thanks for the tip

Glad to help. I hope it holds.

Apparently "N" is "slightly unstable" under certain circumstances.