The lighting options for decorating your home and tree during the holiday season continue to get more sophisticated and many of them have wireless remote controls.This has caused concerns by some about interference with Wi-Fi signals, which might technically be a possibility, but not very likely.

There's a small chance of some interaction if they're being powered off of the same outlet as your router, so keep them separated to avoid it.

You can also test your network speeds with and without the lights being plugged in to see if there is any impact.
It's more likely that your Wi-Fi signal will be impacted by other wireless devices like an infant monitor or a cordless landline phone than your holiday lights.

If you're using an older wifi router, it won't have the sophistication of automatically avoiding congested channels, so in those cases, setting your router to use channel 1, 6 or 11 will have the least overlap.

If you have an
