#Boosting home wifi signal free#
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The best solution is to make sure your router is at least 3 metres away from your microwave and around 1.5 to 2 metres away from other electronics. This article is a good place to start: Stop Clearing Away Your Wi-Fi Signals.Īrticle by Geir Arne Rimala and Jorunn D.If you're still experiencing problems with the strength of your WiFi signal after addressing all of the above, it might be time to get to the core of the problem: perhaps your provider is not pumping in the right broadband for you!Īt Virgin Media we deliver speeds up to 7x faster than BT and Sky thanks to our Virgin Media-owned fibre optic cabling and our in-house Hub wireless router that helps deliver the kind of steady WiFi signal that should keep everyone in your home happy. Even elevators and TVs can interfere with the signal. Here at Wi-Fi Central you will find plenty of advice on mapping and improving your coverage in ways that are both fully legal and completely free. So what can you do instead, when the signals are looking too weak? What To Do Instead of Wi-Fi Signal Boosting In this case, all you have achieved through signal boosting is sabotaging yourself by making your coverage less predictable than it was in the first place. Even though you may succeed in making your router transmit a stronger signal that reaches further, there is no guarantee that the signals returned by your wireless clients-computers, smartphones, and so on-will be able to reach the router. You May Sabotage Yourselfįor a wireless connection to work well, both sides of the connection need to be able to reach each other. Extending your signal further will therefore contribute to even more interference for your neighbors. However, the frequency band with the longest reaching signals (2.4 GHz) is also the band with the most interference / wireless "noise". You Will Sabotage Your Neighborsīy boosting the Wi-Fi signal, you can extend its reach, which sounds like a good thing. The repeater/extender simply repeats the signal from the router to create a new network that extends wireless coverage. Note that while Wi-Fi extenders or repeaters are sometimes referred to as Wi-Fi "amplifiers", there is no actual amplification of signal strength involved.
Typical examples of hacks that may cause this are: (You can also run into problems if importing equipment from abroad yourself, for similar reasons.)Īny solution causing the transmission strength limit to be exceeded, would then be illegal. Fiddling with this yourself will then quickly take you over the legal limit. This means that the equipment you can buy will usually already be using the maximum permitted transmission strength under the law. (See Fribruksforskriften).Īny wireless device sold in a country with such laws must be approved in accordance with the local legislation. Local laws in for example Norway clearly specify both what frequencies and which signal transmission strengths are allowed for indoor and outdoor wireless networks. Actually amplifying your router or extender's wireless signal to extend its reach runs the risk of being illegal in many countries.
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