When you purchase a high-tech piece of gear like the Lithe Audio WiSA Cinema Hub, it’s incredibly tempting to slide it into your media cabinet right next to your home internet router. After all, you want a strong internet connection for streaming, right?
However, doing this is the number one cause of wireless audio frustration. According to Lithe Audio's official engineering guidelines, you must never place the Cinema Hub within 3 meters (approx. 10 feet) of a Wi-Fi router or mesh access point. ### Why the 3-Meter Distance is Mandatory Your internet router blasts out massive amounts of wireless data on the 2.4GHz and 5GHz radio bands to feed your phones, laptops, and smart TVs.
The Cinema Hub also uses a highly specialized, ultra-fast 5GHz network to send flawless, uncompressed audio to your Pro Series and iO1 speakers. If the Hub is sitting within that 3-meter danger zone of your router, the sheer physical proximity causes "RF Desensitization." Your router essentially shouts so loudly that it deafens the Cinema Hub's internal wireless audio transmitter, leading to random audio dropouts or speakers that refuse to pair.
Relocate the Hub: Use a longer HDMI cable to position the Cinema Hub on the opposite side of your media console, or mount it away from your internet hardware.
Go Hardwired: Connect a physical Ethernet cable from your router to the Hub. This lets you go into your router settings and turn down the router’s 5GHz broadcasting power slightly, since the Hub no longer needs to fetch its internet stream wirelessly.