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Christmas lights can disturb WiFi Signal


Festive celebration of Christmas and New Year often must be paid to the disruption of telecommunications connections. If in Indonesia several times the most widely reported problems may telephone or sending SMS due to the high increase in traffic so as many people send the same greeting.

But, in the U.S. that most of the population has been using the internet, connection connection problems that are often problematic during the Christmas holidays and New Year. Not because of high traffic, but there are findings that the cause of Christmas lights. According to an internet service provider in the U.S., Talk Talk, Christmas lights and electrical cable loops that are used can affect the WiFi signal.

"Our experience shows that the decorative lights in the house and the winding wire used in Christmas tree lights can cause interference with wireless signals and weaken broadband speeds," said Sylvain Thevenot, senior manager of Talk Talk in his blog as reported by the Telegraph. He said any major effect until 25 percent.

Therefore, Thevenot warn the user wireless Internet service to put the Christmas lights of the broadband router and the computer as far as possible. He also recommends that service users do not use the lights flicker because in some cases it may cause interference. To mengrangi interference, users can also install a special filter that cost was expensive in the line.