Imagine yourself in the middle of a long awaited video call with your special someone on a special day. You two are having some of the best moments of your life and suddenly your home Wi-Fi signal goes poof! Oh, boy. What a nuisance!
Now, there could be myriad reasons behind a poor Wi-Fi signal. The good news is there are also multiple ways to ramp up the strength of your home Wi-Fi. The post below offers a brief on the simple tips to boost up the Wi-Fi signal across your home.
Keep it away from disturbances
The placement of your Wi-Fi router largely dominates the signal strength of the Wi-Fi connection. In other words, there are certain disrupters of Wi-Fi signal and you are going to experience shaky connection if you place the router close to those. Metal is a big disrupter here so you should not place the router close to metal objects. Other materials that can cause disturbances here are wood, plastic, glass, cardboard and foam.
Wi-Fi signal can also be affected by electromagnetic waves. So, you should not place the router in close proximity to appliances which release electromagnetic waves. These include kitchen appliances, fluorescent lightbulbs, electric razors and circuit breakers.
Update your Wi-Fi router
A malware-infested router could do much to harm the strength of broadband signal at home. When a malware attacks your router, it steals bandwidth and then spreads itself right across the whole network to many other devices. The immediate result will be faint Wi-Fi speed and signal. On the other hand, if you update the router at regular intervals you will be able to keep these unwanted invasions at bay and also enjoy great broadband signal. Thus, if the router is acting weird lately, check out for malware attack and make sure to update it regularly.
Invest in a Wi-Fi booster
A Wi-Fi booster would be a great help to improve the Wi-Fi signal across your home. A booster device such as superboostwifi amplifies the signal strength of your existing router and fixes the speed issues. Most importantly, an external booster offers broadband coverage across a greater area compared to what was possible through your original router. Wi-Fi boosters are usually a breeze to install and operate.
Just reboot
Last but not the least, if the Wi-Fi is not working, just switch it off. Wait for some time and then switch it on again. As per the IT experts, sometimes a mere reboot can do a lot to improve a poor Wi-Fi signal. A reboot process clears up the memory of the router and helps it to install the updates. It will take around 10 minutes for the router to install updates. So, after you switch off the router, wait up for say 11-12 minutes before you switch it on.
Finally, beware of Wi-Fi leeches. These are unwanted people in close proximity sneaking into your home Wi-Fi for free internet. The best way to prevent it is to protect the internet connection with a strong and overtly complex password. Please don’t share the password with random people around.
