You might have some time now when you realize that your Wi-Players won't cut it anymore if you're now working at home due to the COVID-19 outbreak, — it can be a freeze on your screen, a rainbow roller, or a cry from your children if their favorite game doesn't load. Here are some things that you can do to maximize your bandwidth.
Measure Your Speed
Your first step is to understand the nature and quality of your Wi-Fi connectivity. You can use your phone from the browser of your laptop; you can also use the Airplane Mode and turn on the Wi-Fi (you want to make sure you don't use cellular information to do this) then point to a service like fast.com or speedtest.com (with mobile apps), to see how rapid your Wi-Fi runs.
Check your speed in several rooms and note if places are significantly lower than others.
Buy Enough Bandwidth
Data requirements are creeping in on us, and probably more bits are sucking you down. Perhaps you have purchased a more resolution HDTV and enjoy 4K Netflix, or you started using your tablet while watching streams or have interactive games taken place, or the school of your children has closed, or you are working out of home and doing lots of video conferences. Or a combination of them all. It goes up. It goes up.
If your ISP chokes the traffic around the house, you will not do any good to improve your Wi-Fi coverage. See your account or contact customer service to see how much bandwidth you purchase. It is now easy to find plans with 100Mbps up and down, but you may have an old plan at much slower speeds if you haven't checked it lately. You may also be hitting monthly data caps if ISPs usually warn you if that's the problem.
Check that no quicker alternative has materialized in your area if you still have DSL service from your local phone company.
Many COVID 19 related deals are offered by ISPs. For example, for new customers with child care through college students, Altice, Spectrum, and Xfinity offer free service for two months. In addition, major ISPs lift data caps and open their Wi-Fi hotspots to non-subscribers (all operators have, in fact, opened their mobile hotspots for 60 days on request by the FCC). Certain customers are even increasing their Internet speeds. Check and check the website of your provider.
Move Your Wireless Router
Try moving the wireless router if the bandwidth test that you have done shows dead spots in your home. It is not unusual that a secure WiFi router is in the corner of a house or apartment near the wall that provides service. For it, this is the worst place. Wi-Fi is a radio; there is little range of radio stations and walls are occasionally difficult to penetrate. When it's convenient, attempt a longer coax or Ethernet cable from the wall jack, moving your router to a more central place.
Try to keep the router away from large metal pieces such as fridges or microwave ovens. There's not much Wi-Fi either, so stay away from 100-gallon aquariums.
Change The Channel
This is particularly successful to try if you have many other Wi-Fi networks in your vicinity, because you may have radio interference. Some routers are designed to senses interference and select uncluttered frequencies themselves, but not all routers are great at this or when conditions change to find clear frequencies. Go to the settings of your router and try other channels systematically and see if it is good.
Move To 5ghz
The 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands are operated by modern WiFi. The latter is faster and less interfering, but can not reach walls as far as it does. The former is robust and can interfere with microwave ovens and some older cableless telephones.
When you can, choose 5GHz if it is supported by your devices. You should think seriously about getting the new one if you have an old router that doesn't support 5GHz (that is 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11n, or 802.11a).
Note: there is nothing to do with 5G cellular service within the 5GHz band. A coincidence is a similarity in the names. Do not be confused. Do not be confused.
Get A Wi-fi Extender
You may not be able to move your router, or you may not be able to move your router. See if a range extender is available and place the signal where it is weak.
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