Wireless Feng Shui: How to Optimize Your House For Best Wi-Fi Reception

[steve2470]

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wireless-feng-shui-optimize-house-wifi-reception/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-07-12

Setting up a Wi-Fi network should be an easy prospect, shouldn’t it? I mean, a house is a closed-in box, and you’d think when you place a device that transmits wireless signals in all directions that achieving a perfect signal everywhere in the house would be insanely easy.

Well, that’s not exactly the case. There are a lot of things that can cause problems with a Wi-Fi signal, and a house is full of them. There are walls made of all different materials, blocks of masonry, electronic devices creating both inductive noise and emitting frequencies of all sorts. If you don’t carefully plan the placement of your router, taking into account all of those factors, you may not get the pristine wireless Internet signal that you deserve.

We’ve covered a few wireless issues before here at MakeUseOf. In March, Danny wrote about why wireless Internet is the future. In May, Erez wrote about new wireless printers hitting the market. It isn’t difficult to see just how important it is these days to be wireless.

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[HopeHoops]

1. I swapped out the 4" ears on my WRT54G with 10" ones and placed it dead center. Works great.

If you've got longer distances or obstacles, just throw in a secondary router just short of the dead zone. It's no harder to configure than a laptop.

[grok]

2. You do mean a repeater right?

something with free aftermarket firmware like dd-wrt,open-wrt or tomato.

Actually most of the time i run into problems is when somebody nearby is using the same channel. Switching to 1, 6 or 11 usually solves the Issue. Other channels are usually frequency mixures of the former.

[HopeHoops]

3. No, another router. Just give it a different codeword and uplink it to the main router.

It's really easy to configure.