On 10/7/23, Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 07/10/2023 um 11:11 schrieb gene heskett: >> Another possibility is a leaky microwave oven in the vicinity > > This is an urban legend and an excuse I was using when I was in tech > support.
It's real. Try it yourself - run iperf for 2 minutes, display the bandwidth report every second and then start the microwave for 1 minute. I get the thruput cut in half or or more when the microwave is on. Which is an improvement on the previous microwave which used to kill a wireless connection. (which was super annoying when the wife was doing work-from-home & I wasn't allowed to use the microwave _at_all_ during the day. I suspect that's the reason she got a toaster oven) Is it fairly well-known that microwave ovens interfere the most on channel 11? I just tried linssid again and there's a bunch of APs on channel 1 & 6, one on channel 2 and two on channel 8. Nothing on channel 11. Lee
