Make Wi-Fi Stable and Fast in Your Home or Office

Name: Make Wi-Fi Stable and Fast in Your Home or Office
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Techniques to improve the performance of your wireless network in your home or small business

Created byDr. Avril Salter

Last updated 5/2018

English

What you'll learn

Determine the best location to place your home or small business wireless routers.
Change key settings on your wireless router than directly impacts performance.
Determine when to use a repeater to extend coverage.
Distinguish between connecting to the 2.4 or 5 GHz band.
Understand the technical details listed for your wireless router packaging

Course content

1 section • 6 lectures • 1h 8m total length

Introduction to the course and author4:53
This 5 minute video introduces the course and the author. It also describes how the course is structured.
Controlling the frequency band you connect to10:51
This lecture describes what is a single-band, dual-band, and tri-band wireless router. It illustrates one of the fundamental mistakes people make when deploying dual and tri-band routers, and provides your with a simple technique to prevent this having to you. Understanding this will have a profound impact on the performance of your Wi-Fi network in your home and small business.
Determining the best location for your Wireless router8:48
Location, location, location. Where you physically locate your wireless routers can have a significant impact of your wireless network's coverage and performance. The lecture steps you through the essential considerations when positioning your wireless router. Small changes to your wireless router location can make a huge impact on your wireless network performance.
Changing your wireless router settings to improve performance16:59
There are a few settings on your wireless router than can have a major impact on your wireless network performance. Not every wireless router exposes these settings, but if your wireless router does then you must watch lecture. This lecture will explains what these performance impacting settings are and how to configure them.
Understanding the data rates on your wireless router product description12:45
Do you suspect that you are not getting the high data rates advertised for your wireless router? If yes, this lecture is for you. It will explain what those advertised data rates actual mean, and gives you some techniques to maximize your data rates.
Deploying repeaters, extenders, and high gain antennas14:28
Do you have an area in your home or business where you just cannot connect to your Wi-Fi network. Are you thinking of deploying a repeater or high gain antenna to extend the coverage to that hard to reach area? Then watch this lecture where we discuss the options for deploying repeaters/extenders, and the pitfalls in selecting and deploying high gain antennas.

Requirements

The person taking this course should use Wi-Fi in their home or small business.
They should know what type of wireless router they have and its advertised features.
Ideally they should be able to access and look at the settings on their wireless router.

Description

Dr. Avril Salter is a world renowned author and consultant on implementing wireless networks. She created the saying, "The great thing about Wi-Fi is that you plug it in and it works, the bad thing about Wi-Fi is that you plug it in and it works badly."

In this course, Dr. Salter explains in understandable terms how you can improve the performance of your wireless network in your home or small business environment. This course provides a series of five short lectures that help you avoid the common mistakes people make when deploying Wi-Fi networks and shows you how to improve your wireless network performance.

Who this course is for:

Anyone with a wireless network that is looking to improve its performance.
Focus is on home and small business Wi-Fi networks.
Anyone that is frustrated with the coverage and/or performance of their Wi-Fi network.
Someone that is new to Wi-Fi networks.