Wifi vs hardwired for streaming

@erik_squires if your power is low so that your neighbors will not see your SSID, then they are not clogging up your radio channels.

 

Whether the neighbors are causing channel congestion for me has nothing to do with my own router, or even lack of a router.  That’s on them and their transmit power and the channel that their router is sitting on.   In an ideal situation routers would spread their signals across all available channels, or at least say "oh, look, there's six other SIDs on channel 4, let me use 8 instead."  but even today that doesn't happen very well. 

Turning my router off, or setting it to 10% or 100% doesn’t change my congestion problem. 

A powerful radio signal will interfere with neighboring devices even if they are on different channels (frequencies). I don’t mean to derail this discussion too far off anymore but my last comments regarding Wifi congestion:

1. You cause congestion on your Wifi network by utilizing high Tx power from your wifi device

2. Your neighbors cause congestion on their Wifi network by utilizing high Tx power on their Wifi device

3. To minimize congestion on YOUR Wifi network lower YOUR Tx power

4. Your neighbors minimize their Wifi congestion by lowering their Tx power

All I can say is to try this if your Wifi device offers Tx adjustability, which most all in one router-firewall-WAPs do these days.

A powerful radio signal will interfere with neighboring devices even if they are on different channels (frequencies). I don’t mean to derail this discussion too far off anymore but my last comments regarding Wifi congestion:

I shouldn’t, if they are on completely independent channels.  On 2.4GHz there are only three independent channels, since each channel is 3.5 channel wide.  5GHz has more channels and also penetrates walls poorly shielding you and neighbors.  6GHz is even better (also because in newer).  My MESH uses 6GHz backhauling and connection to my computer.  Airport Express works on 5GHz, but is next to MESH transmitter.  I cannot detect any 5GHz or 6GHz around, but plenty of 2.4GHz - so I switched this band off to be good neighbor.

An update of sorts...I have access to a long run of ethernet cable labeled as such:

Superior Essex cat 6 4 PR 23

cat 6 2799 H

If I opt to go with a solid connection, would this cable be a good option?

I have to leave my WiFi 2.4 GHz band on due to IOT devices that use it (Ring, Ecobee, etc).