I was reading somewhere that Christmas fairy lights can interfere with WIFi. The same can be said about microwaves etc.
Can someone offer my the simplest explanation is to the how/why?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: corrected some grammar
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Regarding microwaves, microwave radiation happens to be exactly the same frequency as common Wi-Fi frequencies.
It’s effectively Wi-Fi turned up so high, that it melts things. So any microwave that isn’t perfectly shielded is going to be emitting a lot of random Wi-Fi noise and the actual Wi-Fi signal just gets downed out.
It’s still shielded enough to prevent it being harmful (you’d feel it if it wasn’t), but it wrecks havoc on Wi-Fi
Two ways to avoid this is to get a better shielded microwave (not very useful advice, it’s not like they say “well shielded” or “not well shielded” on the box) or use the 5Ghz band of Wi-Fi, which is well outside the microwave’s operating frequency.
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