Can the weather affect your wireless connection

Why?

I notice my wireless connection starts fucking up more in winter. Under extreme or blustery conditions-

 

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Interesting. By the way, does anyone know if wireless transmissions carry better in cloudy situations (can clouds carry signals better)?

 

Yep it can and does if you have got net stumbler it gives you signal strengths and you will notice that on a rainy day the signal is poor and is better on a sunny hot day. Same as a station radio. Would.nt think wifi would even make it as far as the cloud cover as its only got a short range of a few hundred metres.

 

Well I suppose I'm thinking of EDGE signals. I've always tried to figure out if EDGE signals work better in cloudy days.

 

Wat you mean by edge? If ya mean side band or ssb then yeah they can bounce off clouds. Also with all radio signals sun spots can play a part too, on a sun spot high signals can bounce off the upper atmosphere and travel many 1000's of miles with radio station inbetween not able recieve them as there going over there heads.

 

You need a higher gain antenna.

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I'm talking about EDGE, the cell tower data connection standard that most current GSM mobile phones use.

 

Yes it does.

 

I cant see how a wireless network signal can be better in cloudy conditions. Unless you tweaked it up so you can get signals from a couple of mile away yhen the best youre gonna get the signal is about 60ft away.

probably what affects your signal more in bad weather is the fact people tend to close doors and windows and there is more activity such as microwave cooking, television switched on etc etc.
Microwave ovens on can deplete a connection quite badly

 

Atmospheric moisture will attenuate pretty much any frequency that would provide a decent bandwidth.