How Christmas lights can affect your wifi – BBC

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Image caption The Ofcom app analyzes and verifies the connection and informs the user if encounter a problem.

And now the Christmas lights. One of the problems of the modern age is the internet speed. If the connection, the provider, the number of home devices …

And now, according to Ofcom, the independent agency that regulates communications in the UK, also the lights with which we decorate our homes Christmas can make the wifi becomes slower

So that way, you quelanzó an application, Wi-Fi Checker , with which you can check the status of broadband in a house.

The application measures the wireless signals to determine if data is flowing continuously from the routers to cell phones and tablets.

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Image caption Many commercial establishments offer wi-fi while their customers.

The app was launched with research indicating that the wireless six million homes and offices in the UK is not working as fast as it should.

The application also offers tips to help users detect what could be causing that slows the speed wifi .

And makes recommendations to the user so you can improve the connection, such as moving the router away from electrical appliances, reboot or use an Ethernet cable.

The interference, according to the agency, could come other electronic devices are fully operational as devices for monitoring babies, microwave or Christmas lights .

“It is vital that consumers have the tools they need, as the new Wi-Fi Checker to get the most out of their communications, “said Sharon White, chief executive of Ofcom.

In the market there and similar tools to analyze speed wifi, such as Speed ​​Test to Apple devices. It is also the case of Acrylic WiFi , which promises to identify access points, signal levels, frequency and security mechanisms in Windows.

Another example is Wifi Analyzer for devices running the operating system Android. Its aim is to help “find a less crowded channel for router Wireless User”.

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Statistics on the speed of wireless households are present in the Ofcom report 2015. connected Nations, which analyzes the state of the telecommunications and wireless networks in the UK

The report said there have been “good progress” on the availability and use of telecommunications services.

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Image caption The country with faster internet in Latin America is Uruguay.

The band ultrafast broadband is available in more than 83% of British households.

In Latin America the situation is a little different. Although the region experienced in recent years major advances in the Internet, many countries still lag behind: Users do not reach half of the total population of the region

. The country where the connection speed is greater Uruguay, both downloads and uploads.