How to Fix Wi-Fi Issues in Specific Rooms

Don't buy a new router when your Wi-Fi stops working. These days Wi-Fi is available everywhere. It is as important as oxygen for accessing the internet. It should work right every time otherwise your life will become stagnant. As the Wi-Fi slows down, our entire life slows down too. Our browsers and email stop loading, movies freeze, Alexa stops responding, and phones revert to data plans.

There are numerous reasons for the slowdown of your Wi-Fi, such as signal congestion, firmware issues, router location, hardware limitation or even physical size of the home. Let’s not undermine this, maybe your neighbors are using your Internet at your cost and you are getting a slow speed.

Here is a list of things that can be done to solve these issues:

● Slow or no Internet access in specific rooms.

Wi-Fi is like the radio waves, meaning your router broadcasts in all the directions from a certain location. If your router is in a far corner of the house, then you are uselessly covering a great deal of the external world.

1. Try to move your router to a centralized location. The closer you put your router, the better reception you will get throughout your house.

2. If you have some external antennas, then you can try adjusting them too.

3. Alternation in between the fully vertical and fully horizontal positions can help in reaching to multiple directions.

4. If you reside in an apartment building, then other routers may also be interfering with yours. Free software such as NetSpot on Mac and Windows and Wi-Fi analyzer for Android can show you every wireless network nearby. If your router is overlapping with the nearby networks, then try switching to less congested channels.

If none of this can help then your house may be too much for one router to handle. Go and get a wireless repeater.

John Morrison is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2002. As a technical expert, John has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as www.office.com/setup