Both can heat food quickly but anything you want browned especially bread products will not work well in a microwave.
Inverter microwave and wifi.
In theory a properly shielded microwave shouldn t leak any radiation but the reality is that they leak.
But you need only the tiniest amount of leakage to cause interference.
So i moved our linksys e4200 router 2 4ghz wifi to channel 1 and speed tests now only 30 degraded versus no microwave running versus 100 degraded before the channel change.
An inverter microwave is not a substitute for a convection oven.
This meant at some point we wound up on channel 11 known to be a problem for microwave interferce.
Wifi b g n channels typically range from 2 412 ghz to 2 472 ghz with a bandwidth of 20 mhz and a 2 mhz band gap.
Most of this power is safely contained within the microwave oven.
Read more about it in the old but still very relevant article here.
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While inverter microwaves are more efficient in terms of power usage and food heating they can significantly affect wi fi performance over the entire 2 4 ghz band including channel 1.
Getting back to why microwave ovens can interfere with wifi to heat up food microwave ovens pump out about 1 000 watts.
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Microwave ovens convert electricity to electromagnetic waves of larger wavelengths called microwaves.
If you pick a channel from the upper or lower end and assuming your microwave oven is precise enough with its frequency you could sidestep it entirely.
Microwave ovens emits microwaves to heat up food while wifi routers emit radio waves.
That s about 10 000 times more than a wifi access point.
Thus to avoid this interference one must avoid inverter microwaves or choose 5 ghz operation for nearby wi fi aps.