How can I boost my wifi? These tips will help

Various factors affect the strength and range of the WLAN signal. If this is poor in some areas of your home, you have several options to boost the WLAN.

With these tips you can strengthen your WLAN signal

If the WLAN connection is poor in some rooms of your apartment or house, this can have several causes. To strengthen the WLAN signal and thus increase its range, the following tips will help you.

1. Place your WLAN router on an elevated position and make sure that there are no devices such as microwave ovens or cordless phones nearby that interfere with the WLAN signal.
2. If several people in your neighborhood use the same WLAN channel, it may also help to manually change the radio channel.
3. If the quality of the WLAN signal nevertheless remains poor, restart your router or perform an update of the device to get the latest firmware.

Reinforce WLAN: How to install a WLAN repeater

If the above tips could not help to improve the range or the quality of the WLAN signal, you still have the option to install a repeater. This is a device that is connected to the router by cable or wirelessly, receives its WLAN signal and then forwards it. In order to use a WLAN repeater, it is necessary to set it up beforehand. To do this, please connect the device to the power supply and press the WPS button on the repeater and the router. The devices will then connect automatically.