Had a new smart meter fitted, right afterwards, our broadband ADSL wasn’t working and mobile phones, for 2 hours.
Coincidence, or does the meter produce a burst of data when its first plugged in that swamps the local area with interference ?
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Can a smart meter install disrupt your broadband connection and mobile signal?
Best answer by Nukecad
….. varioius wifi items around the house have been playing up a little, for a little while and then fine again.
That can happen with IoT devices.
The Zigbee HAN signal that connects your meters and IHD is on 2.4 GHz.
As mentioned above that is the same as the wifi connection of most IoT devices.
However that’s a totally different band to the WAN signal; that sends the meter readings by Long Range Radio or 3G/4G. So it shouldn’t be interfereing with wifi or IoT devices.
As PererE goes into above the way round it is to seperate the chanels that Zifbee and 2.4 Ghz ToT devices are using.
If you want some technical advice on keeping 2.4 GHz Zigbee and 2.4 GHz wifi IoT on sepearte channels there is an overwhelming selection on the web.
Unfortunately it is all pretty technical, it’s not really a subject that can be simplified.
This seems a decent one:
https://www.metageek.com/training/resources/zigbee-wifi-coexistence/
As for the rest ??? As you say it may well be just coincidence.
There are a lot of changes going on up there with phone signals and new 4g masts, the RTs switch off, etc. all happening at the same time (and all in a hurry) so it would be surprising if there weren’t some clashes while it’s happening.
Talking of IHD’s, it appears I got a IHD3 model with my new smart meter install the other day, would the better version IHD6 V2 be able to replace it without issues with the smart meter itself ?
Or is the IHD3 the best that specific smart meter can match with ?
If a IHD6 V2 is possible, can I just get one cheap off Ebay and use it ?
+8- Super User
You can use any IHD that OVO provides and can mix and match them - up to four can be active at once without issue.
What you can’t do, however, is grab one off of eBay and try to use that - those ones are banned because they’re from unauthorised sources and are technically “stolen” as they remain property of the supplier, not the customer or whoever is flogging them on eBay.
You do have options though!
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