• @[email protected]
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    1311 hours ago

    If you had a fan blowing out the window, it could slightly reduce the density of the air in your house, leading to a tiny increase in the speed of light through it, so that would make the waves technically faster, but by a vanishingly small margin

    It wouldn’t increase the bitrate of your router at all, so it wouldn’t make a difference, but the waves would be faster

    • VindictiveJudge
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      211 hours ago

      Bitrate wouldn’t change, but it would reduce latency by a tiny amount.

      • Trailblazing Braille Taser
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        211 hours ago

        With less matter for the photons to interact with, I assume the WiFi’s SNR would be improved. If fewer data frames need to be retransmitted at the link layer (WiFi), I figure the apparent bitrate at the IP level might actually be improved!

        Actually, I would not be shocked if WiFi itself adapts to conditions, e.g. by sending less data per frame with more error correction bits when SNR is already low.

        (Not a networking expert, I am just bullshitting.)