lamps, baby monitors responsible for slow broadband

According to Ofcom

In reference to www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11980657/Your-l...:

Your lamp or baby monitor is responsible for slow broadband, Ofcom says

One in five households is suffering from poor Internet connection because their router is placed too close to a lamp, phone, stereo or baby monitor, the telecoms watchdog warns.

Sharon White, chief executive of Ofcom, says many homes receive a fast broadband connection through their phone line, only for the signal to be hit by "interference" on its way to a computer or tablet.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

According to Ofcom

In reference to www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11980657/Your-l...:

Your lamp or baby monitor is responsible for slow broadband, Ofcom says

One in five households is suffering from poor Internet connection because their router is placed too close to a lamp, phone, stereo or baby monitor, the telecoms watchdog warns.

Sharon White, chief executive of Ofcom, says many homes receive a fast broadband connection through their phone line, only for the signal to be hit by "interference" on its way to a computer or tablet.

I read it earlier and it demonstrates how little she actually seems to understand.

She says the signal to be hit by "interference" on its way to a computer or tablet which, as you and I know, is nothing to do with the broadband connection.

lol useless twit x)

The regulator is also concerned that some people have failed to protect their broadband connection with a password. As more devices connect to a single router the signal becomes weaker, ....

Just like if too many people buy televisions or radios the signal gets weaker for each of them.

ROFL

Ye gods! Look at point 4 for improving your speed. (Though I'm not sure the list is from Ofcom or the Telegraph).

Make sure your home has the most up-to-date main phone socket and plug �microfilters� into every phone socket in your home. They look like little white boxes and split the phone and broadband signals so that they don't interfere with each other.

All those millions of engineer-installed VDSL2 filters on the NTE5 are irrelevant then.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Just like if too many people buy televisions or radios the signal gets weaker for each of them.

There is an easy way to speed signals up on net connections, TV and radio connections.

All you do is fix whatever wires carry the signals up as high as you can. Then gravity makes the signals run down the wires a lot quicker.

Ahhhh! So that's why the TV and radio masts are on top of hills, and why the final drop is from an aerial on the house roof to give the signal a good run down the wire, as the resistance of that is greater than that of air so a gradual slope is enough for mast >> aerial.

I reckon you're 146 days early with that post

(or 220 days too late)

Some slightly odd wording used but we have heard all this talk before in terms of helping consumers etc

Some of the stuff sounds like a duplication of what we already do via https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local too

A lot of the article, other than the direct quotes from Sharon White, could have been a resume of the most common topics on this site on how to maximise both your sync and router _^<<>_^> device speeds.

Many thanks for this very useful thread; I've moved my router to the loft on the end of a long telephone extension cable. Much improved performance - as long as I leave the loft hatch open to allow the radio waves to escape!

This is the same body responsible for adjudicating on the future of UK broadband and telecomms.

Goodie.

And doesnt interference only effect wifi? Have you static devices like PC, xbox, tv etc wired is always best

Moved mine to a bunker with wall 3 feet thick. Unfortunately no wifi unless you are in said bunker!

I had the CE and his side kick of the Radio Communications Agency (predecessor of OFCOM) out for a day around 3 of my radio transmitters a few years ago.
They really had no idea of how the real work works, but luckily it was summer and they found out all about midges as we 'inspected' high masts on top of hill tops.
Naturally, they moved on and the problem still exists.

Jon - I'm afraid it won't work, since the signal has to go 'up' to the wire in the first place and will lose energy there.. It will only work if you put a big collecting tank (at least 400TB) up high so it can be filled when useage is low.

In reply to a post by mikejp:

Jon - I'm afraid it won't work, since the signal has to go 'up' to the wire in the first place and will lose energy there.. It will only work if you put a big collecting tank (at least 400TB) up high so it can be filled when useage is low.

I used to have a tank in the loft but it leaked whilst I was out. When I came home there was data everywhere - took hours to clean it up.

In reply to a post by normcall:

luckily it was summer and they found out all about midges as we 'inspected' high masts on top of hill tops.
Naturally, they moved on and the problem still exists.

To be fair I don't think I'd necessarily expect a CE to be able to prevent midges

Or are you saying that the midges moved on but you're still stuck with your CE?

Edited by Andrue (Mon 16-Nov-15 16:01:01)

I'm not too happy about that BrewerDave. The electricity to power your router will have to climb from the ground floor to the loft, so may only be running it at 200v or less. The wheels inside may very well run slower.

In reply to a post by MHC:

I read it earlier and it demonstrates how little she actually seems to understand.

She says the signal to be hit by "interference" on its way to a computer or tablet which, as you and I know, is nothing to do with the broadband connection.

That actually appears to be a poor paraphrase by the Telegraph reporter.

What she actually says is: "This is often caused by something unrelated to the Internet connection, which could be as simple as interference to the broadband router from a lamp, stereo speakers or baby monitor."

2.4 Ghz congestion and wireless interference is not a myth, so I don't really see any issue with what she actually said.

Not disagreeing with 2.4GHz congestion and interference, however than has NOTHING to do with the speed of the Internet connection. The guarantees and obligations will be for the connection speed and NOT a users chosen home network.

In reply to a post by MHC:

Not disagreeing with 2.4GHz congestion and interference, however than has NOTHING to do with the speed of the Internet connection.

And her direct quote specifically makes that point.

In reply to a post by ian72:

In reply to a post by mikejp:

Jon - I'm afraid it won't work, since the signal has to go 'up' to the wire in the first place and will lose energy there.. It will only work if you put a big collecting tank (at least 400TB) up high so it can be filled when useage is low.

I used to have a tank in the loft but it leaked whilst I was out. When I came home there was data everywhere - took hours to clean it up.

Sounds like the tank was a badly done DIY job with no data collection drip tray fitted with a data overflow pipe connected to the drip tray.

A tank with a data collection drip tray fitted ensures that even if the tank leaks data, that data collects in the data collection drip tray until eventually it reaches the level of the overflow pipe. That data then flows out of the overflow pipe, usually to a data drain which then carries the data to a data treatment plant where the data is cleansed and safely returned to the appropiate locations.

Edited by deleted (Mon 16-Nov-15 20:26:57)

8/10. Improving.

Don't forget to include gravity into the equation, that's why the downstream is faster than the upstream

Paul