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How To Reduce WiFi Network Congestion?

One of the main concerns of businesses and households with many people related to the internet is WiFi congestion. WiFi congestion occurs on a network when too many devices on the same network send data packets at the same time or when too many devices try to access the network. WiFi or network congestion can lead to a speed drop and also cause the network to become unstable and unreliable.

Fortunately, there are some ways by which you can reduce congestion on your WiFi network and keep the network fast, stable, and responsive. Here are some ways by which you can reduce WiFi congestion on a network.

Increase the Connection Bandwidth

The most obvious way to reduce or prevent network congestion is to simply increase the bandwidth of your internet connection. If you don’t know what bandwidth is, it is basically the amount of data that can be sent and received over the network simultaneously. If your network bandwidth is low, you won’t be able to handle the data requests and it can lead to network congestion.

If you are facing network congestion because of low bandwidth, then the best option you have is to increase the bandwidth on your internet connection. To do this, you only have to talk to your internet service provider and purchase more bandwidth. You needn’t make changes to the FRITZ!Box or settings of the router.

Improve the Network Design of Your Connection

Improving the network design of your connection can help to reduce network congestion on your WiFi network. If your network is poorly designed, it can lead to network congestion in no time. Oftentimes we see networks being designed without any idea in mind. A poorly designed network can result in congestion in no time, which is challenging to fix.

For instance, if your network has multiple access points and all of the access points are either placed too close to each other or using the same channel, it can lead to network congestion and interference. To prevent this, make sure that you design the whole network in a proper way, place access points at a proper distance, and use less congested channels through router settings.

Analyze and Assess the Connected Devices

Sometimes, the culprit could be the devices connected to the network because some devices may use too much of the network’s resources or cause interference. Always check the devices connected to the network and assess whether they need to be reconfigured to be turned off because they may be causing problems for other devices and users on the network. Analyzing and assessing the devices is a simple process but it can help you quickly identify potential sources of congestion.

Use of Quality of Service (QoS) for Essential Applications

QoS or Quality of Service is a widely used feature these days that can help you prioritize a certain type of traffic over other types. When network congestion occurs, it can slow down the internet activity of all devices and applications. If this happens to an application that is essential or important for you, it can make things bad for you. With the QoS feature, you can prioritize specific applications and data packets over others so they are sent and received on a priority basis.

The benefit of QoS is that it helps you prioritize essential and important applications on the network. So that even when network congestion occurs, those applications are less likely to be affected by it.

PMI survey says 46% of project managers feel AI will help to reduce stress

A survey from the Ireland Chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI) has found that nearly half (46%) of project managers feel that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will help to reduce stress in the workplace, but 72% feel that advancements in technology have led to unrealistic expectations from stakeholders who do not understand its capabilities.

Conducted by PMI, the survey of 122 project managers was carried out ahead of its annual conference, the Work Smart Summit 2024, in association with EY. The event, which takes place in Dublin’s Convention Centre on April 23rd, will discuss the future of project management and will feature David Rowan, founding UK Editor-In-Chief of WIRED magazine and author of the bestselling book Non-Bullshit Innovation as keynote speaker.

Feedback was positive on the potential impact of AI on project management as a whole. In fact, some 70% say it would have a permanent transformative effect on the industry, and 74% say it is driving innovation.

Three-quarters (75%) agree that AI has already had a significant positive impact on the profession, with 41% saying that the technology is improving project completion rates and delivery times.

In terms of project completion, the survey found that the average cost of failed projects in the last 12 months was €710,896.23*, and only 11% of project managers’ ten most recent projects met all project success metrics of schedule, cost, project benefits and resources.

On the topic of resources, constraints in this area were cited as the top cause of stress by 52% of project managers. The other leading causes of stress were competing priorities (50%), and frequent scope changes (45%).

However, the survey did find that nearly two thirds (63%) of respondents feel their workplace has open channels of communication to discuss mental health issues such as stress, burnout, and fatigue.

Commenting on the findings, Peter Glynne, Ireland Chapter of PMI President, said: “Project management can of course be a high-pressure profession, but it is clear that – as well as adequate training and effective ways of working – emerging technologies like AI can streamline projects and boost success.

“In turn, this enables project managers to work smarter – the theme of our annual conference in April – as opposed to longer or harder. AI can also play a pivotal role in driving automation and innovation, something which we will be discussing at the Convention Centre next month and which makes the future of the industry very exciting.”

Jennifer Ryan, EY Ireland Business Transformation Partner added: ““EY Ireland is proud to once again sponsor the PMI’s national conference, the Work Smart Summit. Project managers are at the heart of transformational change, and harnessing systems, technologies and strategies that simplify complex endeavours and enable people and organisations work smarter, comes naturally to them.

“Artificial Intelligence, in particular Generative AI, offers project managers the opportunity to further embed innovation and efficiency into their projects, automating routine or process driven tasks and enabling people to focus on higher value tasks and most crucially, enabling more human interactions.”