7 Easy ways to increse your wifi signal strength
|Wifi is become so popular nowadays .Some of you have already faced problems with low Wifi signal reception.Try some of these easy ways to increase your Wireless network signal strength.
- Locate wireless router in a central position of your building .If router is near an outside of wall the signal will be weak on the other side.
- Place your router off the floor, away from walls and metal objects. If router is close to these objects the connection may be weak due to the interference.
- Most of the wireless antennas are Omni directional that means the signal will be spreaded around and much of your router power will be wasted. So change your antenna to a higher gain that focus wireless signal only in one direction.
- Add a wireless repeater; this will increase your signal strength dramatically.some of the companies who manufacture wireless repeater include View Sonic, D-Link, Linksys, and Buffalo Technology.
- Change your wireless channel operation, for this you have to login to your admin area of router. Select one by one from channel one to eleven and check out the difference.
- Reducing interference will increase your Wifi signal ,that means if any wireless or electronic devices near your router uses the 2.4GHz frequency it will definitely make noise /Interference .Some of the cordless phones works on the 2.4 Ghz frequency You have to avoid these as much as possible . Instead look for phones that use the 5.8GHz or 900MHz.
- Upgrade your router firmware ,router companies makes some times changes for better performance of the router.Most likely you will get these updates on your router manufactured company website or portal.
I agree, there are too many other methods available ,please add those in your comments.