![]() So, let’s do it! Here’s what it looked like when we tossed the router in the microwave and used the 2.4GHz band (the microwave was off, of course): Not only will we look absolutely mad, but we can use this to show how metal has a poor effect on your network functionality when in close proximity to your wireless router. What’s the next step? What can we play with a little more? What information can we show with PingPlotter that might be relevant? Here in the PingPlotter labs, we like to channel our inner Mythbusters. If you want to find more about why microwaves are so mean to WiFi, check out this article for a more in-depth look. The WiFi is trying to go through the metal, wave-offputting microwave, and it just can’t do it. What happened here, then? Why are we seeing worse results when the router is next to the microwave? The answer is pretty simple: the microwave is metal (which we’ll go over in a bit), and the microwave is using its own waves that aren’t compatible with the wireless router’s. All things considered, the 5GHz band is performing much better than the 2.4GHz band, but still not great. However, that spike in there is definitely not what we want to see. We’re sitting at 13.2ms of average latency, which isn’t terrible. Looks like we have a slight spike in there to about 150ms that’ll definitely cause some rubber-banding in Rocket League. Take a look at what happens when we poll just our router on the 2.4GHz band: Plus, we’re only concerned with what’s going on with our router - not anything else - so we should just stick to the simplest plan. a big long route or an excessively long distance across the ocean), the better idea we have of what’s actually skewing our PingPlotter results. Reason being? The fewer variables we have (i.e. The ControlĪs a baseline, we’re using PingPlotter to poll to our wireless router from 10 meters away, and nothing else. We’re going to do the work to find out, and if it is, how we can measure the interference in PingPlotter. ![]() Wives’ tales would say that microwaves and WiFi do not go together. But people are always concerned with what is causing interference with their WiFi, and the microwave is a prime candidate. We’ve all wondered this, staring longingly at our wireless router and microwave, quietly shipping the relationship we KNOW would make sparks fly. What would happen if I stuck my router in a microwave? We used PingPlotter to find out if it's true. People say wireless signals and microwaves don't mix.
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