How To Improve WiFi Reception

There are many ways one can improve the WiFi reception at home. But before one jumps to do any physical changes to WiFi systems,  including changing the existing routers or installing repeaters or mesh,  one should try to do a signal check first, especially when one did not have such a problem before. 

Why?

There is always a possibility that your WiFi signal at home has been “masked” or “interfered” with by your neighbor’s strong WiFi signal,  especially when they have just moved in. 

How to check?

One quick way to check is to use your mobile phone.  In the WiFi settings of the mobile phone, one should be able to find a list of WiFi channels available for connection. Against the list,  there is always a WiFi signal gauge (edged red) as shown below. 

The above shows that one of the WiFi signals has a full bar, and this signal is likely to have caused interference to one’s WiFi system. 

What to do next?

A simple way to resolve this kind of problem is to change one’s WiFi Channel in one’s router settings, and the easy way to change the router settings is to use your mobile phone in the spot or location where one found problems of a weak WiFi signal. 

Using any browser to log into one’s router main page,  one should click the “Wireless” tab to enter the wireless setup page, as shown below. Then change the channel (edged red)  in the photo and click “Apply”. Check if the WiFi bar of the mobile phone shown in the upper right-hand corner has changed for the better. Repeat the process to change to other channels until one can get a maximum or full bar in the WIFI reception..