Problems with the Internet at home? There is a simple trick so as not to have any more difficulties with the Wifi inside your home.
Regardless of your chosen provider, it is common to have Wi-Fi connection problems. Often this does not reach the entire surface of the house efficiently.
If it is true that the location of the router can be decisive, there are other obstacles that make a homogeneous and functioning distribution of the network difficult.
But with a simple trick – using a aluminium sheet – it is possible to direct the signal towards the areas where we want the Wi-Fi to reach.
A simple trick to improve Wi-Fi throughout your home
In areas of your home that are farthest from your Wi-Fi router, particularly in bedrooms, signal range may be weak or non-existent. It thus becomes difficult and unnerving to connect to the Internet in these areas, ruining moments of leisure or preventing you from working, for example, on a desk in the bedroom. Before you blame your service provider, know that there may be another reason why your Wi-Fi isn’t working well. And that there is a simple solution to this problem.
In the normal layout of a house, the living room is the central room where we usually spend most of our time (while awake, of course).
And this is where most of us end up placing the router, often in the cabinet under the television. By following a simple trick with aluminum foil, however, it is possible improve (greatly) the performance of your Wi-Fi.
According to Dartmouth College, aluminum foil helps propagate the network signal, while also helping to prevent the intrusive effect of other bands. Therefore, by placing aluminum foil close to the router, the network will improve significantly immediately. But it’s not enough to simply lay down the aluminum foil; it is necessary to give it a certain shape.
First of all, you need to detach a fairly large piece of aluminum foil from the roll. Then create a semicircle or something similar to the letter “C”. Once completed, simply position the curved part towards the router and the two ends, instead, in the direction in which you want the signal to be directed. Finally, all that remains is to test the Wi-Fi speed.
If the trick doesn’t work due to thick walls or a particularly large house, you can consider purchasing a Wi-Fi amplifier.
