wireless speakers interfering with connection on the 5ghz band ?

ParXed

Commendable
Apr 30, 2016
18
0
1,520
Hey there, a few weeks back I started to notice some weird lag spikes and very slow speeds as my average speeds went from 240 Mbps to 20-40. I would also get kicked out of games and such so I finally started trouble shooting yesterday and found the culprit to be my wireless soundbar system that I have in my room.

The soundbar is an LG SJ4R with a wireless subwoofer and a wireless rear speaker reciever. I have noticed that whenever I turn them off my speeds go back to normal.

I always thought these were running on a 2.4ghz band so it was werid to see them interfere with my 5ghz connection to the router.

I cannot find the bands these speakers are on anywhere, i have checked the manual, the speaker and pretty much everywhere.

Is there anyway to fix this other than to get new speakers ? I do have a protection plan on them and can chaange them out for normal speakers but I just wanted to see if there is anything i can do before that .


If it helps:

wifi card : ASUS PCE-AC55BT B1 AC1200
Soundbar : LG SJ4R
Router : TP link archer C8 V1


Thank you for your help,
 
Solution

vmfantom

Notable
Nov 28, 2017
181
0
860


Since the SJ2 (link below) does operate at 5 GHz (specifically, somewhere at 5.743-5.84 GHz), interference is possible. Sadly, since it's not wifi, you'd need a pricey RF meter to know for sure what the signal strength actually is, but 7.8 mW is the SJ2's output.

https://fccid.io/BEJ-SJ2
 
Solution