having problems with your Wi-Fi
connection at home cutting in and out or
do you have problems with it running way
slower than it should the first thing
I'd suggest and that you may have
already done to try and fix this is to
power down your router for 20 or 30
seconds and then turn it back on again
depending on the cause of your problem
this may fix it I don't know what it is
with computerized devices but
occasionally they hang up for some
reason and just need to be reset and
powering them off and back on again
fixes it however there is another reason
you could be having connectivity issues
or just really slow internet and
wireless network speeds you may or may
not know that Wi-Fi operates using radio
waves I'm probably dating myself a lot
with this next example but if you've
ever manually tuned a radio you've
experienced when you get right between
two stations that are close together and
can hear them both at the same time in
this situation the channels are
interfering with one another making it
difficult to make out exactly what is
playing on either station it's only when
you tune in completely to a single
station that the sound becomes clear now
imagine what it would be like if both
radio stations were broadcasting on the
exact same frequency you have that
interference all the time
the same thing is true with Wi-Fi most
routers nowadays broadcast on the 2.4
and/or 5 gigahertz bands what many
people don't know is within these
frequency bands there are different
channels you can choose to broadcast
your Wi-Fi network on if you have a lot
of neighbors that live close together
especially in apartment complexes and
townhouses and stuff you can have a lot
of Wi-Fi networks in close proximity to
each other this in and of itself isn't a
bad thing you know the city you live in
probably has dozens of different radio
stations and there's no problem with any
of them when you're properly tuned in to
the one channels frequency however if
your network and a neighbors network
that lives close by are broadcasting on
the same channel or on channels that are
very
close to one another you can get
interference from your neighbors Network
causing connections to your wireless
devices to drop or just be really slow
so how do we fix this Brian you've been
talking for over two minutes now and
haven't given us a solution okay okay
the first step is to find out what
channel your network and your neighbors
networks are broadcasting on you can do
this really easily using a free Wi-Fi
analyzer app on your smartphone or
tablet like this one once I launch the
app you can see all the different Wi-Fi
networks near me
you'll notice some numbers along the
bottom here and on the left side of the
graph the numbers over here are the
decibel milliwatts as I'm sure you've
guessed this is the measurement of the
radio signal strength the closer the
signal strength is to 0 the stronger the
signal my home network is the closest
one to me so obviously it's the one with
the strongest signal here along the
bottom of the graph are the channels
that are available within the 2.4
gigahertz band if I tap 5 gigahertz here
at the top then it will show me all the
5 gigahertz networks my phone is in
range of switching back over to 2.4
gigahertz my network is on channel 11
but because of the way radio waves work
there is some bleed over on the channels
both above and below that channel which
you see here on the graph most all of my
neighbors are using channels 1 through 9
which is why I chose channel 11 from my
network but at the same time all my
neighbor's houses are far enough away
that their signals are weak enough they
wouldn't interfere with my network
anyway just FYI a signal above negative
50 DBM or decibel milliwatts is
considered a strong signal and anything
lower than negative 70 is weak so like I
said I'm far enough away from all my
neighbors that I could actually
broadcast on the same channel they are
without it affecting the connectivity to
either my network or theirs however if
you live in an apartment or something
and have neighbors above you below you
on either side of you all broadcasting
on the same
channel or on channels very close to one
another then you will most likely
experience some kind of connectivity
problems okay so I'm finally getting to
the part where I explain what you need
to do to fix this you'll need to log
into your router from a computer or
other device if you don't know how to
log into your router you'll have to find
your owner's manual or look it up online
and find out how to log in to your
router
as for my Asus router I just need to
type in my routers IP address of
192.168.1.1 into my web browser and it
will bring me to my router login page
where I will need to input my username
and password to login unless you have
the same router I do your dashboard will
probably look very different than mine
does but you should have most of the
same or very similar options to change
the channel your network is broadcasting
on you're going to want to go to your
routers wireless settings if you have a
dual band router like mine you should
have some way of selecting which band
you want to modify using this little
drop-down right here I can switch
between my 2.4 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz
bands the thing we are most concerned
about though is the channel field down
here on the 2.4 gigahertz band you'll
have the choice of channels 1 through 11
if your network is currently clumped in
with all your neighbours then you'll
want to change your channel to one that
has no one else on it or has the least
amount of overlap with your neighbours
networks since my closest neighbors are
using channels 1 through 9
I chose channel 11 to avoid any
potential interference from them once
you've selected your channel you'll need
to apply the change and how that you're
no longer being interfere with by your
neighbors you should get much better
connectivity and network speed if you're
using the 5 gigahertz band the same
principle applies you just need to see
what channels your neighbors are using
and select one that no one else is using
or has the least amount of overlap with
your neighbours so what's the Wi-Fi
situation like in your home did this
channel change tip help improve your
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