Keep Wi-Fi Internet Signal Strength Consistent Throughout Your Home

You may want a change of scenery from your home office throughout the day, especially during our COVID-19 Era #Shelter-in-Place requirements. It can get a little tedious being stuck in the office all day.

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Maybe you want to do some work from your kitchen table, your living room sofa or your back porch or balcony. You may find your Wi-Fi signal strength insufficient for you to accomplish your work. That is where a Wi-Fi repeater comes in handy!

Your Wi-Fi router is typically located in one room, perhaps your home office. The signal in the room is excellent, pretty good in the surrounding rooms, and clearly fades as it has to travel a further distance, through multiple walls, down stairways, and through floors. Products like NETGEAR Wi-Fi Mesh Range Extender EX8000* or the Amazon eero Pro mesh Wi-Fi system allow the signal strength to repeated or stretched across your home. In essence, creating a Wi-Fi "mesh" to cover a larger area like your entire house.

These devices are pretty easy to set up. And depending on how big your house is, e.g., square footage, the number of floors, length, width, and construction material type, will tell you how many repeaters you need. This should help you deal with your Wi-Fi signal strength. In a future posting, I'll talk about "latency" concerns - that despite your strong Wi-Fi signal strength, your internet activity is still for some reason slow.

If you have questions, feel free to e-mail me at MichaelDJ@TheTechSavvyLawyer.Page