Don’t always blame your router for a bad network. The truth is here.

It is undeniable that with the development of the Internet era, every household is now inseparable from the Internet. As a carrier for connecting to the Internet, router devices have become a rigid need for home users. As the home network environment becomes increasingly complex, the Internet experience of many users has dropped significantly, so many users blame the router for the problem, but is this really the case?

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Recently, the British media regulator Ofcom has now come to a very shocking research conclusion, that is, microwave ovens can interfere with Wi-Fi signals, causing them to slow down!

At present, this research result has been adopted as one of the suggestions for improving wireless network performance during the epidemic. At the same time, cordless phones, baby monitors, halogen lamps, dimmer switches, stereo speakers, computer speakers, TVs, and monitors may also affect Wi-Fi signals if they are too close to the router.

In fact, many electrical appliances in the home will also affect the quality of the WiFi at home. You should know that there are also microwave ovens and some Bluetooth devices that work at 2.4G. Generally, the interference of Bluetooth devices is small and can be ignored, but the power leakage of microwave ovens is very serious when working, which will cause great interference to the WiFi signal. Some home appliances such as TVs and refrigerators will also affect the WiFi signal to some extent, so you must keep the router at home away from these devices. With them around, no matter how good the router is, it cannot penetrate their iron walls.

Interestingly, with the surge in demand for wireless network traffic during the epidemic, using traditional landlines or Internet calls to communicate can provide more reliable connections than mobile phones. The largest cable TV operator in the UK found that users spent almost twice as much time using landlines in the evening as they did a week ago, and call time increased by 94%. Remote work at home also boosted demand for landlines, with about 2.5 million landline calls per hour at the peak in the morning.