Improving your home Wi-Fi network

Summary

During these times of working from home and sheltering in place, our home networks have become more stressed than ever before. Wi-Fi networks that were previously adequate may now be less responsive and unable to keep up with the increased demands being placed upon them.

Environment

Home Wi-Fi network

Directions

1. It’s best to connect your computer via an Ethernet cable directly to your home router. If this is not practical, read on for suggestions on improving your Wi-Fi experience.
2. Check the strength of your signal at your computer. See this article for details on making that determination.
3. Read these articles for helpful suggestions:
   • How to Make Your Wi-Fi Suck Less While Working From Home from Wirecutter, which can provide free fixes that can speed things up
   • Top 10 Ways to Boost Your Wi-Fi from NetSpot, which contains recommendations that can be helpful such as Switch to a Different Wi-Fi Channel, Controlling Bandwidth-Hungry Applications, Confirm you are using the Latest Wi-Fi Technologies and Clients, and 5GHz versus 2.4 GHz
   • Optimizing Your Home Network for Working and Learning from Internet2, which is posted through a Higher Education Network Community