With so much QRM, the modems are stepping down in speed trying to find a reliable baud rate to run at. What other factors degrade WiFi performance? The best answer is QRM. Have an ancient "b" device on your wireless network? It'll slow down your other 2.5GHz connections. G will drag down C nodes.Īmazing what happens when you look under the covers. This is by design so that other nodes are good neighbours. Notice that they are in B mode only? Sadly, I don't think those printers are even owned by us.Ī broadcasting B node will drag down the entire network regardless of the speed of the rest of the network. In the screenshot below (I removed the SSIDs) I circled 2 broadcasting nodes. You can see the various sessions,their channels, and the throughput of each session.
Just about every consumer wireless access point I've seen will let you override the "auto-select channel" setting and select a good channel manually.įor Windows, I suggest the free version of Acrylic WiFi - It's a very solid product. You can get a very good idea of how many sessions are around you, which sessions are using which channels, and the best channel(s) for your Wireless Router to use.
This is where a WiFi Scanner app can help. While every consumer wireless access point claims that it "auto-selects the best channel", it rarely does a good job of this in the real world. WiFi bands are comprised of discrete channels. Content provided by Peter K1PGV and Mike, VA3MW
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