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  • Your WAP can change location in your house! Place your WAP with intention.

    • Keep your WAP in the open and not hidden by plants or furniture. The fewer the obstructions, the better the signal.

    • Placing your WAP higher in your room where there are fewer obstructions may improve performance.

    • Your WAP does not need to be in the center of your house. Depending on your home's construction material, the WAP will have varying difficulty penetrating your walls.

      • While working from home, you may find benefit in moving your WAP closer to your working space and sacrificing some connection strength in other parts of your house.

    • While working closer to your wireless router will give you better performance and reliability, try to stay at least a few feet away.

    • Note

      While working closer to your wireless router will give you better performance and reliability, try to stay at least a few feet away
      • The 5Ghz network will give you better speeds (bandwidth) but cannot penetrate walls as well as the 2.4Ghz channel.

      • The 2.4Ghz network will have a better range and, therefore, better reliability than the 5Ghz channel but will have lower speeds (bandwidth). 

    • While working from home, you may find benefit in moving your WAP closer to your working space and sacrificing some connection strength in other parts of your house.

      • This difference in speed may be imperceptible in your use case.

Troubleshooting Device Wi-Fi settings

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You should consider replacing your WAP when the number of devices increases or , your use increases and you are having trouble staying connected, or your speed is much slower than a wired connection. 

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