If your Wi-Fi is terrible at one end of the house, moving your router can sometimes make a surprisingly large difference.
The problem is that the best position for Wi-Fi isn’t always where your internet connection enters the house.
Central Is Usually Better
Wi-Fi needs to travel from the router to your devices.
If your router is hidden in a garage at the front of a long house, devices at the rear are already at a disadvantage.
Where practical, a more central position can improve coverage.
Avoid Hiding Your Router
Routers generally aren’t attractive, so it’s tempting to hide them.
Unfortunately, putting a router inside a cabinet, behind large objects or in an isolated corner can affect wireless performance.
Building materials also matter.
Brick, concrete, metal and multiple walls can reduce Wi-Fi signal strength.
What If Moving the Router Doesn’t Fix It?
Large and double-storey homes may simply be too big for one Wi-Fi access point.
That’s where multiple wired access points or an appropriately designed mesh system can help.
Instead of trying to make one device cover the entire property, Wi-Fi can be provided from several strategic locations.
Wi-Fi Solutions Melbourne
Aussie Vision provides Wi-Fi installation, data cabling and network solutions across Melbourne.
If your internet is fast but your Wi-Fi isn’t, we can look at the internal network and work out what’s actually causing the problem.
Because faster NBN won’t fix poor Wi-Fi coverage.
