Try upgrading your WiFi to 5 GHz, which has a few hundred channels
available.
2.4 GHz Wifi has only a dozen channels, and practically, you can only
use 3 of them in a crowded situation, due to overlap of adjacent
channels. 2.4 GHz WiFi is a disaster in crowded situations, as you've
found out. Moving to 5 GHz units will solve all your WiFi over-crowding
situations.
If you have an Android phone, download WiFi Analyer app so you can see
the channels in use around you, both 2.4 and 5 GHz.
I use an eero mesh WiFi 6 network, and there is no latency due to the
WiFi, which is actually capable of higher speeds than our ISP, which is
300 Mb up/dn fiber-to-the-home (upgradable to 1 Gb up/dn without any
hardware upgrades).
Any wired ethernet in my house is 1 Gb, which has much less interference
potential than the older 100 Mb stuff. I use shielded metal-case
Netgear routers.
73,
-- Dave, N8SBE
On 2024-03-13 12:58, Bayard Coolidge, N1HO via Elecraft wrote:
Unfortunately, with the high population density in my immediate
neighborhood, especially with 150+ condominium apartments right next
door, I have a difficult time getting a reliable wi-fi connection to my
home network. I'm about 900 feet (240m) west of the Intracoastal
Waterway, and have 2, 3, 5 and 7 floor condo buildings between me and
the ICW. To the north, west and south, I have single-family homes.
Along the south (i.e., rear) side of our house lot, I have 7.5kV
3-phase power lines overhead, which feed the homes on the block south
of us; we're fed by underground feeders installed 2 years ago. To make
matters more interesting, we have a steel "ridgepole" running the
length of the house, atop the actual conventional wooden ridgepole,
which supports the curved concrete tiles at the top of the roof. I
suspect that noise is coupling from it onto my TWP Ethernet line as
well. I used the simple/cheap MFJ clamp-on chokes at both the shack end
and the end in the den where it's plugged into the ISP's modem/router.
Basically, I'm doing the best I can with what I've got.
73,
Brandy, N1HO (EL96xh)
On Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 12:24:24 PM EDT, Victor Rosenthal
<k2vco....@gmail.com> wrote:
I recommend replacing Ethernet cables with wifi when possible, both
for noise and rfi problems, as well as reducing the chance of lightning
damage.
Victor 4X6GP
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