Tips for improving the stability of wireless networks

With the rapid development of wireless technology, the home wireless network has been developed from 802.11b 11Mbps to 802.11g 54Mbps, and a lot of personal users with special requirements for wireless coverage and transmission speed have adopted more advanced extension 54M and 108Mbps network.

Although the technology can achieve high-speed wireless transmission, including Internet extranet and the network of computers between the data transmission, but the wireless signal and transmission speed is a lot of objective and external factors constraints. So how to maximize the stability of the wireless network and transmission speed?

Today, I would like to introduce you to a few personal summary of tips, I hope you can use the wireless network performance to play some role.

One, the stability of wireless network:

What is stability? That is, the signal should be good, the intensity of the signal should be kept unchanged, even if the weak signal can not appear a weak one will not be a good phenomenon. Considering the stability of the wireless network, we should start from three aspects.

(1) Wireless device location:

The so-called wireless is at a certain distance and range of wireless, so we can not put the wireless router hundreds of meters away from the room to receive the signal. As a result, the placement of wireless devices in the entire room (the entire wireless network) is also a key factor in determining the stability of the wireless signal.

Generally speaking, wireless routers should be placed in the middle of the entire room, regardless of the signal coverage or transmission speed can get the best results. Because the signal of the wireless transmitting antenna on the router is a circular range, if you put the wireless router in a corner of the whole room is tantamount to wasting half of the space, naturally seriously affect the wireless signal coverage, wireless network range from the default of the entire circle into half a circle, so that wireless performance greatly discounted.

In addition to our room there will be many wall corners, each corner will affect the transmission of wireless signals, so in the design of wireless networks and equipment placement should try to avoid corners. This is the same as the previous one where wireless devices are placed in the middle of the room. I have put the notebook in the living room behind the TV, and wireless router placed in the study, wireless signal transmission routes need to pass the study and living room two corners, and finally through the television, even if the expansion of 54M to transmit, still can not receive any signal.

Finally, the point is that when we put the wireless device in the corner of the room, the whole room is in the wireless signal coverage, the signal is also very stable, but because your wireless equipment in the corner of the room, especially the occupants of the building will receive wireless signals from other huxing and neighbors, The superposition of multiple wireless signals naturally affects the stability of the signal itself. So the best way is to put the wireless router in the living room or the middle of the room.

(2) The stability of the wireless router itself:

As a result of wireless router brand many, the price difference is also very big, coupled with some foreign products and other characteristics, resulting in the wireless router's own stability and functional aspects of a big difference. When your wireless network signal instability and wireless router placement is not a problem, we should first consider the problem of the wireless router itself.

In this case we can close the laptop to the wireless router, or the wireless router to the PC plugged into the wireless network nearby, reduce the distance to see the stability of the wireless signal. If the connection speed and signal strength is still not ideal, you need to start checking the stability of the wireless router. The most common approach is to download the latest patches or firmware drivers from the official homepage of the wireless product manufacturer.

The upgrade driver method is particularly effective for wireless router signals that are not stable or are automatically dropped by wireless cards at intervals of several minutes.