Wi-Fi Problems? Chromecast, Google Home May Be The Cause

It could be the fault of Google Chromecast or the Google Home smart speaker. Users and experts alike have indicated the devices are causing trouble for wireless routers. A number of complaints have started to crop up on product pages and online forums in recent months suggesting that the introduction of internet-connected Google products into the home have caused disruptions including the internet connection dropping out completely. The first round of complaints focused on the Google Home Max--the company's high-end speaker that has its Google Assistant built in--and how it interacted with routers from TP-Link, the world's top provider of wireless networking devices. TP-Link quickly identified the issue, which stemmed from how the Google device would MDNS packets, which are used to identify individual internet-connected devices on the same network.