Improving Your Wireless Signal?

Improving Your Wireless Signal?

Improving Wireless Signal

The strength of your wireless signal depends on a range of factors, one of the most important being where your router is located.

Finding the best position for your router can be tricky, try and consider two things:

  • The best place for your broadband signal
  • The best place for your wireless signal

To optimize broadband signal, it's a good idea to connect your router to the telephone master socket or fibre router, that's usually the one closest to where the telephone line or fibre enters the building and the termination box is placed. This becomes more important if you have a low quality line.

To optimize wireless signal, you should try and find a location that's around the centre of the building, not tucked away in a corner (or in close proximity to walls, radiators or electrical appliances), and raised off the floor.

There's no one-size-fits-all rule for this, so try placing your router in different locations and see what works best for you.


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