I recently upgraded to a faster Uverse speed - 24mbps from 12mbps. Since the upgrade my router completely loses sync during the day. This starts right around sunrise and it reconnects right around sunset.
I downloaded UVRealtime in an attempt to figure out the problem. I noticed my Bitloading graph looks pretty awful compared to the ones I see here, so I started googling trying to figure out what it could be. I don't live next to an AM radio station so that seemed unlikely to me, but then I read something about how most stations lower their signal power significantly at night. Hmm. I finally decided to look up what stations were nearby in case I was surprised.
It turns out there are 5 stations within .5 - 1.0 miles of my place. Still, they weren't next door. How bad could it be? There must be thousands of people living with a mile of several AM stations in big cities.
Then I matched up the worst, chunkiest dips in my bitloading graph... and they seem to match up almost exactly. The interference looks far fatter and wider than what I saw called "AM interference" on any other bitloading graphs - a thin 2-3 pixel wide dip, hardly visible in some cases.
Is this some ridiculous coincidence? Surely not everyone living in a major city has interference this bad?
Attaching bitloading graph and a list of the radio stations (some stations are listed multiple times if they have different output signals at different times of the day.)
The 5 frequencies are: 790, 920, 970, 1190, 1690.
I also included the kilowatt power of the signal of each station, both at night and daytime, since I don't know relatively speaking what is powerful vs quite weak.
If this is the case, I know the upgrade didn't cause it - I'm assuming it just put me near enough the "edge" that the extra day interference knocks me offline. But I still can't believe the AM stations have that much impact compared to the other graphs I saw.
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