BAD weather can affect your Wi-Fi, but usually not in the way you think.
Be it storms, flooding, or even a touch of rain, the melancholy outside can often creep inside.
As the UK Met Office issues a 'danger to life' weather warning, slow internet is the least of many people's worries.
For those tucked up inside, here's how you can secure stronger speeds during a spate of bad weather.
Can bad weather affect your Internet?
Bad weather can almost certainly bring about a poor internet connection, according to experts.
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Writing in The Conversation, James Jin Kang and Paul Haskell-Dowland, computing experts at Edith Cowan University, explained that there are a number of reasons why this happens.
These include physical damage to the network, water getting into electrical connections and wireless signal interference, they said.
"Some types of connection are more vulnerable to weather than others," the pair added.
For the most part, the impact will be slight and even major storms are unlikely to tank the Wi-Fi of most homes.
More often than not, if your Wi-Fi is struggling during bad weather, then something other than the conditions outside are to blame.
For instance, during storms, people often hunker down inside, leading to a strain on broadband networks as everyone uses their WiFi at once.
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