Tricks To Improve The Wi-Fi Signal In Your Home
If your WiFi isn’t working as it should, try these tips to improve your WiFi signal. Both speed and range will improve noticeably.
It is very typical to have a contracted 300 Mb/s connection that later you do not enjoy that speed. They lose a lot of speed through WiFi, and sometimes the connection does not even cover the whole house.
All this can be improved by following some simple tricks. WiFi always loses speed compared to the cable connection, but you can optimize your connection to the maximum with these tricks. The speed and range of the network will improve considerably if you follow these tricks.
The location of the router is vital to improving the WiFI signal
The router’s location is probably the most vital variable to consider when improving the connection. First of all, the most basic trick is to have the router in the center of the house so that there are no areas with a feeble signal.
It is also essential to locate the router in a relatively high area. The router sends the waves downward, and otherwise, you will waste some of its range by sending a signal to the ground or the neighbor below.
Lastly, keep in mind that electronic devices interfere with WiFi. Having the router next to the TV, computer, or appliance is probably not a good idea.
Placement of the antennas
There are different popular beliefs about how router antennas should be placed. Some say it is better to place them vertically; some believe it is better to place them horizontally. But in reality, you do not have to place them in either of those two ways.
It is best to place the antennas perpendicular, one vertical and one horizontal. In this way, one of the two antennas will be in parallel with the device’s antenna that connects to the network, something that favors speed.
Update the firmware of your router
Sometimes, router manufacturers release software updates to improve network speed or range. Different times they do it to put security patches. Usually, you can update the router’s firmware from the administrator’s website.
You just have to write 192.168.1.1 in the URL bar to access it. Then you will have to enter a username and a password that will surely be admin and admin or admin and password.
Don’t let other signals interfere with yours.
If you live in a city, and especially if you live in a block of flats, your neighbors’ WiFi signal is interfering with yours. Most routers operate in the 2.4 GHz band, and within that band, there are 13 channels 20 MHz apart.
To know which channel you should set your router to, you must check which channels the networks around you are set to. To do this, open the Windows command prompt and type the following:
This way, you will see a list of all the networks that reach you and which channels they are configured, among much other information. Set your router to the least frequent channel of nearby networks.
If you are lucky enough that your router supports the 5.0 GHz band, you should set that band. It is a less frequent band and supports many more channels, so there is less probability that the network will suffer from interference in that band.
Buy a WiFi signal repeater to extend the network.
If none of these tricks work or your house is too big, a signal repeater can probably improve the range of your network. Place it at an intermediate point between the router and the end of the house so that the repeater picks up a still strong signal and pushes it to the end of the route.
The same tricks applied to the router in this post can be applied to the repeater.
