Recently, your home wifi is often slow, or the signal is very weak in every corner of the house, causing problems with connections to phones and laptops. The reason may be that you are too far from the wifi transmitter, or your home has objects blocking the wifi signal.

Below are 8 things that slow down wifi signals in your home that you may not know about.

1. Metal surfaces and furniture

Metal is a conductor, which means it absorbs electricity. Since wifi is an electromagnetic wave, any metal surface or object in your home will block the transmission of the wave.

If you want your internet connection to be trouble-free, you need to place your wifi router away from areas with a lot of metal. For example, some metal surfaces such as: stainless steel tables, iron tables, iron cabinets.

2. Brick and stone walls

Some types of walls block your wifi signal: Granite, marble, cement, concrete, plaster and brick. This explains why in 2-storey houses, people often experience very weak internet connection on one of the floors.

To fix this, place your router in an open area and away from walls.

3. Mirror

It may sound unrelated, but mirrors are a barrier that disrupts your internet connection. When it is close to your router, it can make your signal slower and more unstable.

4. Refrigerator and washing machine

Electrical appliances with water pipes will affect the wifi signal. Water can reduce some of the electromagnetic energy, affecting the wifi connection. If you do not want your wifi to be slow, do not place the refrigerator and washing machine near the transmitter.

5. Decorative lights

Decorative lights make your room bright and full of light, but this device also makes the wifi in the house weak. To control decorative lights, you need a control device and this device is on the same frequency as wifi.

This also affects the wifi connection. According to experts, this type of light can reduce the transmission efficiency by up to 25%.

7. Landline phones and cameras

Landline phones and cameras both use chips and emit electromagnetic waves, which overlap with wifi waves. The router sends the signal to the Internet-connected device, but it will be affected by the overlap. Keeping the landline phone and camera away will help your home wifi transmitter connect better.

8. Microwave

Microwave ovens are one of the devices that use the 2.4 GHZ frequency, sharing the same frequency as wifi transmitters. Therefore, microwave ovens can cause wifi to temporarily stop working.

Above are 8 objects that slow down wifi signals in the house. If you have devices like these in your house, please pay attention and keep them away from the above devices so that wifi can broadcast effectively.

Khanh Son (Synthesis)