From the course: Wireless Networking: Advanced Troubleshooting
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Locating interfering objects
From the course: Wireless Networking: Advanced Troubleshooting
Locating interfering objects
- [Instructor] In this course, I've talked about interfering objects, but let's take a look at some other types of objects that you may not be aware of when it comes to Wi-Fi interference. When many networks are closely together, for example, in apartment buildings, this will affect wireless capacity. For equipment on the 2.4 gigahertz band, neighboring networks are the single largest source of interference on a wireless network. Now, if you have multiple wireless networks in your home that are set up on different pieces of equipment, this can be even more disruptive than your neighbor's network. If you need to have logins for the wireless network with different access levels, it's recommended to set up a guest network with its own network name or SSID, which could be on the same wireless access point as the primary network, however, will automatically be put onto a different subnet, so that way, there can't be any types of traffic running on the same subnet as your devices, and that…
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