Does weather affect wifi signal?

[burns flipper]

I had a wired connection to my router until recently, and I would always get around 750kb/s.

I've recently switched to wifi as I've had to move the router to somewhere else in my house. I've noticed that the signal really deteriorates when we have low pressure weather, i.e. it's overcast, cloudy or rainy.

Yesterday we had rain all day and my signal dropped to the 5.5MBps band so I was only getting speeds of around 20-100kb/s. This morning, it's beautifully sunny, not a cloud in the sky, and I'm on 36Mbps with a download speed of 850kb/s!

I don't think it's contention at the exchange or network shaping since I get 750kb/s constantly, no matter the time or day, on a wired connection.

Although, saying that, my speeds over the last few hours has been a constant 850kb/s and I didn't even get that when wired, and my exchange is currently going through (or is imminently scheduled for) the 21CN upgrade. Maybe that has conincided with me moving my router, although I moved the router 1 month ago and I don't think the upgrade would have taken that long?

[PO15KA]

Hi mate,

i was under the impression that any type of meteorological activity will affect wifi internet connection, i guess just like mobile reception? however if we are talking about wifi connection (cable from wall outlet to modem\router and then wireless wifi from modem\router to laptop\pc) inside the house, room to room, then i was made to believe weather does not play any role.

i could be wrong

best regards,
Marcin

[Harrison]

I wouldn't have thought it would effect it inside of a building either. Outside is a different matter.

BTW, I would love 850KB/s. Best I have ever achieved here is 300KB/s and that is very rare. We do have one of the slowest exchanges in the country though according to a recent news report on the evening news.

[Tiago]

300Kb/s ? the slowest..?!?! i am in a 3rd world country :-)
and i have 1000kb/s as slowest... it's the slowest my ISP have, and with that service i can go to 1300kb/s...
Is that a reason for that? Maybe the area... are you far away fro a major city?

[Harrison]

Are you talking KB or Kb? They are very different. My connection is about 2700Kb/s on average which I can get about 300KB/s download speed out of.

[Tiago]

talking about Kbytes per second.
I have the lowest possible, they now have ranges from 30 Mbits/s to 1Gbits/s

I found that Portugal has the 16th fastest internet in the world...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1...e=16__Portugal

some thing we are shixx other things we are good.... i better cry a bit ...