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WiFi tips & tricks: check your signal strength

Published March 10, 2016

If your connection seems to have slowed down for no reason, check your WiFi signal strength first. A spot that had a great signal earlier in the day is not guaranteed to be great every day.

The biggest culprit is frequency interference inside the home, from range extenders with overlapping coverage or devices such as wireless printers and hotspots running on the same frequency.

Download a free frequency analyzer from the App Store or Google Play that scans both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. Walk around your home or office and watch the signal strength: a reading of -53 is much better than -83. If you see readings around -80, expect weak performance in that area.

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