Why is it when the phone ringes it seems my wireless speed drops?
I have Comcast cable internet, I have a linksys wireless router with speed booster as well as a range extender near my computer yet when the phone rings i seem to lose speed or lose my wireless signal entirely is there a reason for this??
Guessing your phone is a 2.4GHz cordless phone..right?
For years, companies were selling 2.4Ghz cordless phones even though, the 802.11 protocol uses the same 2.43GHz spectrum for wireless networking
How these companies didn’t see a conflict and think people might unknowingly buy both products and some of these would conflict is beyond me.
This is why I still use my old 900Mhz cordless instead.
Luckily newer phones use 5.3 and even 6.0 GHz radio spectrum.
So… IF you have a cordless phone.. it is probably throughing out radio interference which your wireless router is having to talk thru and that is why the speed drops.
Try moving your wireless router’s channel up to 11 or down to 1 and see if that helps.
See if your cordless phone has a feature to manually change what channel it is on.
You could also modify your Wireless routers antenna with a little copper wiring and a soddering iron and increase the signal strength like 3 times.
Lastly, sometimes just separating the 2 a few feet or in another room is sufficient to resolve the interference issue.
FYI.. ya wanna know another thing 2.43Ghz radio energy is good at? getting water molecules to vibrate rapidly.
YEP.. you got it.. your Microwave ALSO uses 2.4GHz spectrum to cook food.. it just does it at a MUCH higher wattage and SUPPOSEDLY has enough shielding that it doesn’t transmit those radio waves outside of the microwave.
– though I knew a guy who everytime someone microwaved something – his wireless dropped out and he had to reboot the router.
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