{"id":147995,"date":"2015-12-01T10:59:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T08:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=147995"},"modified":"2015-12-01T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T09:01:55","slug":"warning-christmas-lights-slow-down-your-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/147995-warning-christmas-lights-slow-down-your-wi-fi.html","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Christmas lights slow down your Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK regulator Ofcom has launched a Wi-Fi Checker application for Android and iOS, which tests the Wi-Fi network a\u00a0device is connected to for potential signal interference problems.<\/p>\n<p>Ofcom said interference can come from other electronic devices such as microwavs, baby monitors, lamps, and\u00a0Christmas fairy lights.<\/p>\n<p>This can change over time and have a different effect in different rooms of your house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recommend you try running the Wi-Fi Checker in different rooms and at the times of day when you\u2019re most likely to use the Internet,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator provided the following troubleshooting tips for fixing problems with your home Wi-Fi network.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Move your router away from electrical devices:<\/strong> Halogen lamps, electrical dimmer switches, stereo or computer speakers, fairy lights, TVs, monitors, and AC power cords.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Move your router to a different part of your home:<\/strong> The walls and furniture in your house act as an obstacle to the Wi-Fi radio frequencies. Routers should be placed on a table or shelf.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Restart your wireless router:<\/strong> This may automatically select a less busy Wi-Fi radio frequency.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use an Ethernet cable to connect directly to your router:<\/strong>\u00a0This should give you a faster, more reliable connection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Wi-Fi articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/146789-free-wi-fi-for-gautengs-east-rand.html\"><strong>Free Wi-Fi for Gauteng\u2019s East Rand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/145597-city-of-tshwane-doubles-free-wi-fi-data.html\"><strong>City of Tshwane doubles free Wi-Fi data<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/144175-where-you-can-find-joburgs-free-wi-fi-hotspots.html\"><strong>Where you can find Joburg\u2019s free Wi-Fi hotspots<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/142924-free-wi-fi-on-cape-town-public-transport-imminent.html\"><strong>Free Wi-Fi on Cape Town public transport imminent<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/142724-cape-town-continues-free-wi-fi-roll-out.html\"><strong>Cape Town continues free Wi-Fi roll-out<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK telecoms regulator has issued a warning that fairy lights may slow down your home Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,27895,749],"class_list":["post-147995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-active","tag-christmas","tag-wi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148035,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147995\/revisions\/148035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}