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Key Takeaways:

• 75% of home Wi-Fi suffers interference and slowdowns during peak usage periods.
• MediaTek Anti-Interference can mitigate >95% Wi-Fi interference.
• The result? Up to 30% faster throughput and 60% lower latency during peak use.

Wi-Fi has become the invisible lifeline of modern life, powering how we work, stream, game, shop, browse, and connect with one another. But as Wi-Fi has become ever-present in almost every device, it鈥檚 also continually fighting the problem of interference.

Think about a multi-story apartment building. Each family installs its own Wi-Fi router or mesh of routers, separated from the next only by a wall or a floor. Before long, dozens of signals overlap, competing for space on the same channels. The result? Slower speeds, dropped connections, and frustrating lag. The same issue appears in neighborhoods, offices, public spaces, and increasingly even in vehicles that offer in-car Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, where passengers are exposed to waves of competing signals.

Meanwhile, temporary peer-to-peer connections, like sharing files or casting videos, can also clash with local networks, hurting performance on both sides.

Engineers categorize these problems into two types: Co-Channel Interference (CCI), which occurs when networks fight over the same channel, and Adjacent-Channel Interference (ACI), which occurs when nearby channels bleed into each other. Both cause slower speeds, higher latency, and unstable connections.

While solutions like band steering and channel switching help reduce congestion, they鈥檙e not perfect and can sometimes cause devices to disconnect or stop responding. That鈥檚 why next-generation anti-interference technologies are becoming so important. By intelligently managing channel use in real time, they promise faster, more reliable Wi-Fi in crowded environments without causing the headaches of connection drops or slowdowns.

In short: as our reliance on Wi-Fi keeps growing, smarter ways to fight interference are key to keeping our digital lives connected. Read our white paper to discover MediaTek鈥檚 proposals for a series of effective Wi-Fi anti-interference technologies, including Universal Bandwidth Adaptation (UBA), Customized Preamble Puncture (CPP), Enhanced Spatial Reuse (ESR), and Coordinated Spatial Reuse (CSR).