What are the rumors about ending the electric lights that can affect the wireless speed?

What are the rumors about ending the electric lights that can affect the wireless speed?

1 is electric lights the culprit of choppy wireless networks at home?

Wireless Networks have been fully integrated into people's lives. When we use wireless networks, many users say they are not satisfied with the quality of their wireless networks. It takes a long time for video buffering, slow response to opening a webpage, and low download rate ...... And so on. A few days ago, some foreign media reported that "electric lights will interfere with wireless routers". Is that true? Why do I have to use wireless networks in the dark? Today, let's talk about wireless network interference.

 

Why did the electric lights become the culprit of wireless network freezing in the house?

According to foreign media reports, the British Telecommunications Authority ofcom recently said, the electric lights in the home may affect the transmission rate and wireless network quality of the wireless router. It is recommended that the wireless routers in the home be placed away from the lighting. This kind of report makes us confused. If we want to conduct wireless network activities in the future, we can only turn off the lights to watch videos, play games, and browse webpages? Is it because of electric lights that make our network unstable and reduce the transmission rate of wireless networks?

 

Does the electric light affect the speed of the network?

After carefully reading this report, we can find that the lights in this Article refer to halogen lamps and light boxes. Because their transformer, rectifier and other electronic devices work at the same frequency as the 2.4GHz frequency band of the wireless router, it is very easy to produce the same frequency interference phenomenon, resulting in a decline in the network quality of the wireless router. Halogen lamps, light boxes, and wireless routers send electromagnetic signals when working. Because the electromagnetic frequency is in the same frequency band, when they are close to each other, mutual interference occurs.

 

Wireless routers have become essential for the family.

When interference occurs, the Wi-Fi signal sent by the wireless router in our house becomes unstable, resulting in a reduction in the wireless network transmission rate. In this way, we will feel the crazy online user experience, such as video freezing and increasing network game latency. However, for the vast majority of users in China, such interference rarely occurs. Most of our environments use energy-saving lamps, even newer LED lights, and even incandescent lamps, so there is no need to worry about the impact of electric lights on the signals of wireless routers.

 

Not terrible! Even electric lights provide wireless network access

After reading the above analysis, we can rest assured that we do not need to turn off the lights for wireless network activities. Since it is not the interference caused by electric lights, why are there problems such as slow speed and poor signal in our home wireless routers? In fact, there are a variety of sources of Wireless Interference, and what else will become sources of interference? How can we improve the quality of wireless networks in our home? Next, let's unveil the answers to these puzzles!

2. same-frequency interference hazards big dual-frequency wireless routing help

Same-frequency interference hazards dual-frequency wireless routing help

Many users are not familiar with the same frequency interference of wireless routers. When a wireless network problem occurs in your home, the first response is to replace a wireless router. But is the result really obvious? No! After the new wireless router is changed, there will still be an old problem of slow Internet access, which is due to the presence of co-frequency interference. What we have at hand is actually very inconspicuous, so we can interfere with the wireless network in our home, which virtually slows down the network speed.

 

Serious interference with wireless headsets

First, let's take a look at the features of the 2.4GHz band. 2.4GHz wireless technology is a short-range wireless line transmission technology, and it is a widely used wireless band in the world. In addition, this frequency band is not limited, and can be used by various wireless products around the world. Due to this feature, most wireless products such as wireless routers currently work in this band. Because of Other Wireless frequencies, its overall bandwidth improves the overall data transmission rate and its transmission distance is far away. With the development of technology, various manufacturers can make GHz wireless products more compact and reduce power consumption.

 

Devices with the same frequency interference

Currently, most of our users use wireless networks in the GHz band. At the same time, wireless mouse keys, wireless headphones, and Bluetooth devices are also running in the GHz band, which also makes the band very crowded. Therefore, when using a wireless router working in the GHz band, we often find problems such as poor wireless signals, network freezing, and frequent disconnection. Among the many interference sources, microwave oven is undoubtedly the most serious interference to wireless signals. in daily use of wireless networks, we should try to avoid using microwave ovens and cordless phones.

 

Dual-frequency concurrency has become the mainstream trend

In the GHz band, there are only three non-interfering channels, and the "congestion" phenomenon is very serious, causing a headache. In the 5 GHz band, there are 22 non-interference channels, which greatly exceeds the number of non-interference channels of 2 to 4 GHz. Just like a road with only three lanes and a road with 22 lanes, which is more unobstructed. 5 GHz fast transmission with less interference and noise can provide users with a more advanced network experience. With dual-band matching, different roles have become the main application mode of 5 GHz. We can choose to use a dual-band wireless router to reduce interference with the same frequency.

3 What are the effects of interference on wireless signals?

In addition to interference, what other impacts on wireless signals?

It solves the problem of same-frequency interference and also provides some tips to improve the quality of wireless networks in the home, hoping to help you. Currently, most residential households are deployed with wireless routers, and the channel conflicts are inevitable. If we find the network unstable or choppy, we may wish to change to a channel with fewer access points. We can use the mobile app to view the usage of the surrounding network channels, and we can also use the software wirelessmon to view the situation of wireless channels. Users can switch channels in a timely manner.

 

The bar chart on the right shows the wireless channel usage.

In addition to the need to adjust the wireless channel, the wireless router retains the launch strength and power of the wireless signal when leaving the factory. By default, the transmit power of a wireless router is much lower than its maximum power, which makes it possible to adjust the intensity of wireless signals. In the setting of a wireless router, the higher the transmit power, the higher the coverage and strength of the wireless signal. In this way, it is easy to adjust the intensity and coverage of wireless signals by yourself. You can also adjust the wireless router to the "through the wall" mode.

 

Increase transmit power

To improve the signal strength of the wireless network at home, changing the location of the wireless router deployment is the simplest and most effective method. Taking the most common two-bedroom architecture as an example, most families live in a two-bedroom architecture of 50-90 square meters. Such an area is generally commercially available with M wireless routers, but there are still many netizens who say that their router wireless signals cannot cover the room well.

 

Place the wireless router in the center

In a general room structure, the room is centered on the living room, but many users deploy wireless routers in the bedroom, seriously affecting the coverage of wireless signals. Therefore, we need to move the wireless router from the bedroom to the living room, so that the wireless router will be in the center of the room, and the coverage of wireless signals will be in the best state.

After these adjustments, is it still unable to achieve satisfactory wireless network coverage? For large-sized users, you can consider using the power cat or Wireless Repeater to expand the wireless network to areas with poor coverage. For other questions, you are welcome to leave a message in the comments below to contact us!