How To Get The Best Wi-Fi Signal In Your House

Short Bytes: If you want to increase your Wi-Fi speed, the first criteria would be to get the best Wi-Fi signal. There is no way out where you can leverage your Wi-Fi data without getting the best Wi-Fi signal with a good strength. fossbBytes has come up with an article covering all the aspects of getting the best Wi-Fi signal by telling you how interference, Wi-Fi channel, the line of sight etc. matters.

Getting the best Wi-Fi signal in your own house is like finding a solution to come out of the maze while being stuck in the maze. We take our Wi-Fi router for granted and we just place it anywhere knowing that all of us are getting the internet connection.

Since we are all paying for the data usage, it's our right to utilize the Wi-Fi to its fullest which we ignore because we take life as it comes. So, we have come up with some tricks and tweaks on how can we get the best Wi-Fi signal in our house.

How to Get the Best Wi-Fi signal in your house:

Put the Wi-Fi router ideally in the central location of the house as a Wi-Fi router extends the Wi-Fi signal in every direction.
Avoid keeping the Wi-Fi router in one of the corners of your house because more than half of our Wi-Fi signals are ended up providing connections in the neighborhood.
If your data port lies on one of the corners of the house then consider running a long ethernet cable to the center of the house, it does not cost much.
Remember, any solid structure like a wooden wall or a concrete wall are impediments to the Wi-Fi signal.
Do not forget the Wi-Fi antenna. They have some serious effect on the quality of the signal you receive. If you have not one, better buy one to get more coverage and stronger signal.
You can use a plenty of apps available out there for free of cost to measure your Wi-Fi signal strength. This way, you can easily decide the perfect or at least, close-to-perfect location for your Wi-Fi router.

In our previous article, The Best Place to Put Your Wi-Fi Router – Explained by Physics, we have covered some of the important points on how a Phd scholar named Jason cole derived some results on the Wi-Fi signals on a mathematical modeling mapping of his flat and here are some of the results:

Wi-Fi router should be kept in line-of-sight to your device to get a strong Wi-Fi signal.
Dark spots are the points in our room where Wi-Fi signals get canceled out after reflection. So if you are not getting a good signal at a particular location, try switching your position a little bit. Here is the video explaining that:

Many materials absorb a quite bit of the signals and a concrete wall absorbs the most.
Some of the things which should be avoided when planning to keep a Wi-Fi router nearby are:
- Concrete wall
- Water body like an aquarium, the little fountain, microwave etc.
A vertical antenna position helps make a better in horizontal space and Vice versa to get the best Wi-Fi signal.

Besides, the above observations which are mostly based on the physical locations of placing a Wi-Fi router, there are some other technical tweaks which help you improve your Wi-Fi router's performance. Some of the tricks to get a strong Wi-Fi signal are:

Update router firmware
Choose correct wifi channel
Disconnect old devices from Wi-Fi router
Replace antenna
Restarting your router etc.

If you are more interesting in knowing about these Wi-Fi tweaks in more details, you can read it on Top 10 Best Ways to Improve Your Wi-Fi Router’s Performance

How to choose the best channel for your Wi-Fi router?

These days every other house has their personal Wi-Fi routers. These intelligent routers have the capability of choosing the best channel for a better performance but sometimes, that does not work as the perfect solution. Owing to that, we have already published an article over How To Increase Wi-Fi Speed by Choosing Correct Wi-Fi Channel. This article talks about the different channels, their frequency range, co-channel, channel interference and also running some diagnostics test on Mac and Windows to find the right channel for you.

I hope this article on how to get the best Wi-Fi signal in your house has been informative as it talks about all the aspects of a Wi-
Fi router like interference, channel etc. If you are also aware of some tricks which are capable of boosting the Wi-Fi and getting us a strong Wi-Fi signal, kindly share that in the comments below.