My system uses a wired network except for a RPi4 running Ropieee wearing an HiFiBerry audio HAT located in my kitchen. Annoyingly, I have been constantly irritated by audio drop outs to this WiFi connected endpoint.
Whilst the wired network performs faultlessly I have discovered the WiFi network fails whenever the microwave is operated. The fault is easily replicable, so much so, that I don’t really need to configure the recently introduced sleep timer!
I can live with this but I had no idea that microwave ovens mess with WiFi networks.
Forum users may wish to consider rogue microwave signals when attempting to improve connectivity.
Danny thank you for the quick response and yes I will try the suggestion to use the higher frequency.
I did laugh at the I need sleep so let’s microwave a ready meal … something I don’t do actually!!
Can anyone explain how microwaves interfere with the WiFi signals when we are led to understand that the radiation is safely contained inside the oven ?