Home Wi-Fi can be a real problem if the signal is not good enough. Trouble can come from where you just did not expect. For example, by installing at home a point of access Wi-Fi the author of the experimental method found in one of the walls of his apartment something like a metal mesh. Apparently, years ago this item has been installed in wall for extra strength. But in the age of wireless connections, he played the role of a screen that blocks the signal for half of the apartment.
Sometimes I cannot establish the reason why Wi-Fi is sometimes unreliable. But, anyway, to solve this problem is necessary. Resource iGate.com called three ways to increase Wi-Fi or delivered to a remote destination.
Replacement antenna
If the signal nothing escapes, but the power of the router just enough to cover the desired area can improve its antenna. Some users are trying to install on your aimed point of improvised screens made of tin or foil. Theoretically, it may help to send the signal of the router in a certain direction. But in practice to achieve a positive result quite difficult.
Truly effective solution is to replace the antenna. If your router has one or more short antennas, it makes sense to replace them with longer ones. Replacement power antenna 2dBi or 3dBi to 8dBi antenna is guaranteed to increase the area of coverage.
If you have a laptop or PC connected to Wi-Fi via external USB adapter, then use an adapter with such an antenna in a similar way will improve the quality of communication.
Installation of Wi-Fi-repeater
A repeater, as the name implies this device takes your existing wifi signal and distributes it over a large area. The method is very effective if you need to increase the signal’s range. But it is obvious that the repeater does not make sense to put it where the existing Wi-Fi signal is already very weak. Indeed, in this case, the device will distribute itself around the fact that you can “catch” itself. That is, the signal strength of it will increase, but as the repeater is forced to communicate with a Wi-Fi point, the Internet speed will not grow. For this reason the repeater does not make sense to install where a signal that something screens. In such cases, the repeater can only be effective if you connect it to home network cable. In fact, he began working as a second wifi point, handing out a signal where there is not enough power first.
Powerline adapters
As has become clear, amplify the signal, if something escapes, is not possible without laying additional cable. However, there is an alternative – so-called Powerline adapters. They allow you to use as a LAN network. The device sold kits. Two blocks are included in the sockets at opposite ends of the apartment. To the blocks, in turn, is connected a regular network cable.
Powerline adapters can be used in order to combine a couple of computers in local home network. Also the Powerline adapter can be connected to the already mentioned above the Wi-Fi repeater. This is an option when the user needs to launch Wi-Fi in a shielded part of the house, but a separate cable pull is not desirable. Finally, the Powerline adapters do not interfere with the use of electricity, and even no space in the socket, as we have our own nest under a standard fork.
Sounds great, but has its drawbacks. First and foremost, the use of Powerline adapters requires a very “clean” networks. As practice shows, the outlets in our country, “noise” all possible kinds of interference, and the voltage they arbitrarily jump from 210 to 260 volts. Installing on a house or apartment, the voltage stabilizer is strongly recommended to anyone who is even slightly sorry for his sensitive technique. But if you are going to use in Russia the Powerline adapters, to stabilize the grid at the entrance is not just desirable, but necessary. The more interference in your network, the stronger will fall a rate. For example, if the Powerline adapter claimed data transfer speed of 600Mbps, the local outlet, it may fall up to 100Mbps.
In addition, the Powerline adapters are heated and, oddly enough, squeak. If you have very sensitive hearing, and you can hear a faint whistling of the transformer in any electrical engineering, and the adaptors can “please” you like annoying zadaniem.
