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Where your router is placed in your home can impact your Internet speed. Some common household items can interfere with that signal, such as a cordless phone, fish tank, TV and more. Michelle Gilbert from Comcast Cable shares some devices and items that could cause interference to explain that.

Router 101

Where your router is placed in your home can impact your Internet speed

You want your router in the middle of your home, out in the open away from anything that it is going to interfere with.”

Some common household items can interfere with that signal, such as a cordless phone, fish tank, TV and more.

Don’ put it next to electronics…or next to your fish tank, the signal will not pass through water.”

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