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techwithjake@lemm.ee 8 months agoWiFi and ZigBee can interfere with each other as well since they both run on 2.4GHz and pending on what channel you’re on, will royally screw with the other. Moved (nearly) all my Smart Home devices to Z-Wave and has had better connection to nearly everything.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Yup. I didn’t mention this because it feels a bit too much in the weeds to be helpful.
Bluntly, 2.4 GHz should be abandoned by pretty much all WiFi, only standing for the last remnants of legacy support, and for IoT devices that refuse to use 5Ghz. Everything of substance (phones, laptops, computers… Even TVs and STB’s) should be on 5Ghz+
I’m also a fan of zwave, since it’s usually in the otherwise abandoned (for consumer devices at least) 900mhz range.
I’m very strict about the RF airspace in my home. What operates on which bands and what’s in use for which technology.
There’s a ton more that can be said about it, but I need to get back to what I was doing. Have a great day.