Home Networking

198 readers

1 users here now

A community to help people learn, install, set up or troubleshoot their home network equipment and solutions.

Rules

Please stay on topic.
Please use the search function to look for keywords related to what you want to ask before posting since most common issues have been answered.
No Ads. This community is for support and discussion. Ads and self promotion are not welcome here.
No product reviews or announcements. If you have a question about a product, be specific about what you want to know.
Be civil. Don't be a jerk. Not being a jerk is surprisingly easy.
No URL shorteners. URL shorteners tend to hide the real use of a link. For this reason, please use normal links, even if they're long.
No affiliate links.
No gatekeeping. With profession shall come professionalism. Extend help without judging others for their ignorance. The same goes for downvoting of comments or posts for "stupid questions" or not being as knowledgeable as others.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Wifi Channels/Interference (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Live in a single family home in a neighborhood with relatively close homes - I'm scanning through the wifi channels to decide where to place my 5ghz band. I found when I let the router choose by using "auto" that my connection is rather spotty. I've always had better results in the past by choosing the channel myself.

If the signals i'm seeing from neighbor networks hovering around -75 dBm to -85 dBm at the worst (while mine is around -20 dBm) - am I safe to assume the signal is weak enough where it really does not matter? If I chose a channel that currently has 2 or 3 other networks/hotspots on the same channel but their signal is weak/in that range - the impact is minimal correct? Would increasing to 40 or 80mhz cause any issues?

Ty :)

top 1 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

More bandwidth means better performance, but also that you're more impacted by interference. However if as you said the neighbours are at -75 dBm (or a 55 dB signal to interference ratio) it's really not an issue