Why are my electronics interfering with my Wi-Fi and smart devices?
Unshielded computer peripherals, displays, and poorly routed cables emit radio frequency interference that quietly drops Wi-Fi packets and jams nearby smart devices like microchip pet flaps. When these emitting devices sit too close to sensitive wireless receivers, they disrupt local connectivity in ways that are extremely difficult to diagnose and fix.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1moving devices further away
- 2using better shielded cables
- 3changing monitor resolutions
- 4relocating USB receivers using extension cables
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My wifi kept dropping packets, confirmed by ping. Randomly every minute or two it would just drop a few pings and then continue as normal.”source ↗
“Ha! This is crazy! I was losing my mind trying to figure it out”source ↗
“It all started when the Microchip cat flap I had stopped working. Just would not read the microchips on the cats. I took it out of its hole to investigate and it started working.”source ↗
Where this came up
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