Christmas lights might affect the speed of Wi-Fi – Vanguardia.com.mx

Your Happy Christmas lights required by your household? If? Does also have very slow Internet? Do not? Bad news, this could be one of those cases where you can not have everything in life.

In a report published by The Guardian, several British have reported problems with the use of both technologies. The communications regulator Ofcom warned that the Christmas lights could cause the internet should be encouraged and have scientific bases his argument:

Wi-Fi routers use radio waves to communicate with other devices 2.4 GHz frequency. For this process to be slower, the lights would have to transmit electromagnetic radiation at or around this frequency, according to Tom Coughlin, a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, for Wired magazine.

Coughlin says it is possible that the cable works as an antenna lights if you do not properly grounded and could generate a radio signal if an alternating current strong enough to pass through cable or have a strong signal that rentrasmitiera for him.

Although according to the expert, although it is possible that the signal is in the exact frequency to interfere with the Internet is not as common.

But it is worth to prevent it. While most people buy Christmas lights once every five years, using them for a few days and keep the rest of the year, they are not ideal for your Wi-Fi work decor. If you can, use LED lights are also more environmentally friendly.

What happens is that the technologies needed for the lights from turning on and off may in fact cause interference. Most modern lights use LEDs and a stable external electronic controller that does not create noise, but there are varieties with chips installed inside the bulb, causing interference every time you turn on and off.

But if you do not have the time or inclination or budget to be investigating what lights have chip, which are LED and so on, there are some preventative measures you can take.

First of all, zoom out lights you as much as possible router.

Or turn on the lights when you do not use the Internet if you feel slows.

Or switch suppliers, as the problem has nothing to do with the innocent and white Christmas their decorations.