Extend And Strengthen Your Network With A Wifi Extender

Wireless networks have become very common in Swedish homes. Something that is almost as common is having problems with your wireless network. The network may only work occasionally, or it may work very poorly in the kitchen. The movie may stop when you try to watch a movie online on your smart TV, but on the other hand it is good to take a break from watching TV as well.

A Wi-Fi signal booster extends WiFi network coverage distance by fostering or amplifying active signals. It enables each of wireless devices inside enlarged coverage space to connect with internet or other wireless network. It is a distinctive solution which works by pulling an present feeble wi fi . It then amplifies it until broadcasting the transmission to spaces where required. Even the RangeXTD helps to efficiently extend your current Wi-Fi network through the process attaining multiple floors in a construction, most of the corners of the house and even your yard, office or house.

A range extender, also called an amplifier, can connect to the WiFi you have today and repeat that signal. The devices often cost less than SEK 1,000 and are often very easy to set up, but there are some things that help if you know first.

The chain's weakest link

If you have problems with the internet at home, it is good if you start to find out if there are problems with things that are connected with cable. If it works well with cable in a laptop but works poorly when the computer is only connected to WiFi, we can assume that the wireless network is the chain's weakest link and then you read the right article right now.

So what is causing the problems? Wireless networks are radio signals and radio signals can be attenuated or stopped by certain types of materials, disturbed by certain types of signals and in addition the signal becomes weaker with distance. For some reason, for example, bookshelves are very difficult for the radio signals to penetrate, but even tight electrical cables, grilles and chicken nets - if you have it at home - can block the signal. Disturbances can come from microwave ovens, mobile masts or elevator machinery, among other things. If there are very many wireless networks in an area, such as an apartment building, it can be difficult for your particular wireless router to be heard. It is as if we were trying to talk at a party full of guests: the farther apart we are, the louder we would have to speak to continue the conversation.

If possible, try to move the wireless router away from sources of interference and place it on top of things that might otherwise block the signal.

The location, the location and the location

The first thing to keep in mind is that it is not possible to place the amplifier, the extender, in the room where the signal is bad right now. If you do, the amplifier will take the bad signal and send it on. The result will therefore not be better than before. The computer will say that the WiFi signal is strong, but it is an amplification of a bad, noisy, indistinct signal. It's like turning up the volume on a voicemail message from a friend who's at a party in a machine room.

The extender needs to be placed somewhere between where the signal is bad and where your router or WiFi access point is, ie where the signal is still strong. Then the amplifier gets a good signal and can send it on to the room where the signal was bad, like going out on the balcony to call home from the party and tell how much fun you have. The mobile gets better contact with the mobile mast out there and the microphone does not have to record the noise from the party as clearly.

Another trick is to think about where to place the amplifier. Since most furniture is at waist-to-chest height - TVs, cabinets, mirrors, large potted plants, chairs and desks - there are fewer disturbing objects at head height and higher. Hanging their WiFi gadgets a bit up on the wall or placing them on top of bookshelves means that their field of view in radio waves is not blocked by the furniture they are standing on, and that they can reach further, past and over other furniture to get better contact with tablets. mobile phones and computers.

See the radio waves

Perhaps the most difficult trick of all is to imagine what it would be like to be able to see radio waves. You know best of all what your home looks like and if you can create a mental map of where the router is, what walls are sitting where and if there are electrical cabinets or microwaves somewhere that emit a disturbance, then maybe you can figure out where it is would be best to place a WiFi extender.

Fortunately, there are also programs that can help with such mapping. One of the better ones is called Netspot, which has been around for a long time for Mac but has recently also come to Windows. The program allows you to draw a map - or photograph a drawing - and use your laptop to measure how the wireless signal spreads in the home.

Do you need help with your network?

Smartify helps you with technical support on your network. We can help you through assembly and testing of the network and if you live in one of our areas, we can even come to your home and do examination and assembly for you for a fixed price per case. Smartify helps you via email, phone or if needed, we can make a home visit (with RUT deduction). Then one of our technicians will come to your home and solve the problem on the spot.