How to make the Wi-Fi router is working 100%

Wireless networks have become the norm. Every self-respecting institution today provides visitors access via Wi-Fi network. Naturally, people wanted to use and wireless networks at home, and with the current prices of the routers and the presence of Wi-Fi in virtually every device to realize such a desire - as easy as pie. The problem is that many users perceive even your home Wi-Fi network "as is". It is promoted and providers offering is already configured to run on a particular network routers. Unfortunately, universal settings do not always provide the best quality and speed signal any particular case, and in fact from these parameters depends comfort when surfing the expanses Internet. Well, if you have a friend admin networker, who set up the equipment, taking into account all the features of a particular place. Well, if it is not? Then you can do everything yourself and get your router to work as efficiently as possible.

network name

Often, the provider sets the router name in the network as a vague combination of letters and numbers. your router will be pretty good highlight among many similar faceless dots and make it more recognizable for themselves (when connecting new devices to the network), and for guests who want to take advantage of your internet.

Security

It is unclear what the guidance of experts (specialists?), Working in the company provider when setting up the equipment, but very often you may notice a terrible WEP abbreviation in the list of routers. The fact that the security protocol is extremely vulnerable. A suitable protocol for encryption of reliability can be called WPA2, however, legacy devices and operating systems can not with him friends, so in this case will have to choose between WPA and WPA2 support, depending on the protocols used by you devices.

Network password - it is also very important. One provider in the same city the same set the access point name and password on all their routers. Change your password.

Ethernet-cable and adapter

It is always useful to keep handy cable, with which you can connect to a router in cases of force majeure (something went not so when you set up, etc.), but if you own a MacBook Air or Retina MacBook Pro, then you will need to connect adapter. There are two modifications: Ethernet - USB and Ethernet - Thunderbolt. For the same cost of the second option is faster, but to choose the optimum adapter is best based on your specific employment on a computer port.

Collection of information

To configure the router is perfect, it can not be regarded as "the only one in the world." The key to the most efficient operation of the router lies in its competent adapt to the current situation with congestion Wi-Fi channels other routers. So, we need to know:

• How many other access points with us
• What is the power of their signals
• Is there any signal interference from other points

Get basic information on their own and nearby networks can be regular means of OS X. Just open the Wi-Fi menu and click on the desired network while holding the Alt key.

WiFi Explorer

For a more detailed and intuitive display of the situation with the networks around perfectly suitable application called WiFi Explorer ($1.99). Running it, you will receive detailed information on all available wireless networks. In particular, we are interested in loading of each Wi-Fi channel. Meaning boils down to, to create a network on the least busy channel. Often, standard router settings are the same, with the result that several router huddle on the same channel and adjacent channels are empty.

Screenshots clearly reflect the situation with channel loading in the range of 2.4GHz and 5 GHz. If your router and PC Adapter supports a range of 5GHz, in most cases, this will allow you not to think about the interference and maximize signal quality and high speed transmission data.

Signal strength corresponds to the height of the graph. If at a given point, you experience low signal strength of your router, it will be obvious to change the location of the router. By spending some time optimizing the location as a result you get the best connection.

Towards the end I would like to share links to a couple of tools available to help in the configuration process.

application Signal ($ 0.99) monitors the loading situation and used channel signal power, offering the user the optimum channel to maximize the quality of communication.

If you need to cover a wide area network space, in this case, would be an indispensable application NetSpot (Free), via which it is possible to calculate all the dead zones and to move the routers so as to cover the entire desired signal area.