Three tricks to speed up your Wi-Fi
Rossen Reports: Three tricks to speed up your Wi-Fi
Updated: 1:07 pm PST Jan 3, 2023
Hello. Yes, you are starting the new year with new electronics, maybe gifts for your children, maybe for yourself. Either way, you may find that your Wi-Fi isn’t working as fast as it should. It turns out that there are some serious mistakes that a lot of us are making right now. That could be slowing down your connection even if you’re paying for fast wifi. So let me speed you up. Everything is super easy. The first tip where you put your router is important. There are *** many things that contribute to wifi speed. It’s not just the signal speed you paid from the company. It is also where you put your router. So I’m at my parents’ house right now. We spend *** a lot of time here over the holidays and I noticed a few things that can help you and them. So come here. This is where my parents have their router at the moment. They have always had it here. It’s not like the prettiest thing in the world, so they keep it to one side. But this is the worst place for it, experts say, having your router in the kitchen is a bad idea because the electronic waves coming out of the fridge and microwave, whatever else you have, interferes with the signal. You want to place your router in the main room of the house. I’m going to get into the main room of the house like this, 5-7 feet high and also not inside something like this where it will block the signal, right? You could look, they could put it right here, right? But higher is even better. You want to be in the main room and put it back here and then drop it out the back and go find a way out. This would be the perfect situation. Neither up nor down. Main deck 5 to 7 feet high. No clogs still going slow. Test your internet speed for free. So this is what you do, right? You come here to google google dot com. Nice and easy. And you write wifi speed test, okay? You will get all this on top and just pass the race speed test. So right now it’s running my download speed. He’s going to do that first. It will speed up my download speed. I’m going to do this in real time. So you see how long it takes. Ok, done with that. Now it is doing my upload speed. So when you upload videos or whatever, how long would it normally take? It’s doing that in real time, people. Okay. Here we go. Your internet connection is very fast. Your internet connection must be able to handle multiple devices, stream HD video, video conference and play games at the same time. So that’s good. OK great. Speed test says my internet can run multiple devices. But what exactly does that mean? Once you get more than 10 devices, your wifi signal starts to drop. Think you don’t have that many. Think again, I know what you’re thinking. I am not rich. I don’t have 10 phones connected to my wifi. That’s what we think of as phones. But remember that it is any smart device that is connected to the Internet, sucking up power and speed. So let me show you alone in this house. This is my phone, the correct one. This is my mom’s ipad which is always here too. Okay, this is my mom’s phone. Three Amazon Alexa they have here. four Come this way. My laptop five. This is *** Smart TV Six. There is *** smart tv in that room seven, there is *** smart tv in that room eight. Um come here don’t think about this your thermostat if you have like *** Honeywell or *** Nest. Right? This is connected to the Internet, that’s another one. And my son loves to play in this room. And by the way, this is also a fucking smart TV. My children’s play station. Agreed and *** Macbook Mac desktop. Well, that’s a lot. That’s a lot of devices and all of a sudden my wife is going to be slower. So what you want to do is take some of those things. Come this way. Come back here with me real quick. She is not using this ipad right now. So don’t go on like this. Turn it off completely when you’re not using it right now. This is the wife’s last hip and this is the easiest. Turn off your router from time to time, just unplug it. Wait 30 seconds, plug it back in. It’s like a shitty computer or shitty phone. It must be rebooted to resolve any connection issues, fix errors, etc. Close it, restart it about once a month. None of us. We never know why, but it seems to work every time I put these tips on a few more. We didn’t get to my website, Rawson Reports dot com. Back to you.
A new tablet, a new phone, even that new smartwatch… all those gadgets you bought for the holidays are sucking the juice out of your router, making your internet run at a snail’s pace. What can you do to speed up your internet for free? Test Your Settings First things first, you need to test your internet speed, and this is actually quite easy. Open your phone, your laptop, etc. Make sure you’re on your home Wi-Fi, open Google, and type “run speed test.” And it will start testing your download speed. Download speed matters when you’re watching videos, checking emails, and the like. Then it will test the upload speed. Upload speed is important for things like video conference calls, Zoom calls that you’re on all day. Going to try both. It will tell you if your Internet connection is very fast or slow. Check the location of your router. Where you place the router is important. Routers have signals coming out of all directions, so there are some places you shouldn’t go. Experts say, for example, don’t put it in the kitchen because electrical appliances can interrupt the signal. Things like the cordless phone, microwave, baby monitor, etc. Routers aren’t the prettiest things in the world, and we put them in cabinets, but that can affect resistance. Place your router on the main floor of the house on a shelf, clear of obstacles, at a height of about 5 to 7 feet. Count your devices I bet you have no idea how many devices you have connected to your Wi-Fi at once. From your Airpods, to your iPads, from Alexa to game consoles. After about 10 devices, your internet will really start to slow down. So keep track of all the devices in the rooms of your house. Remember, even if they are not being used, they are still using WiFi because they are constantly being updated. So be sure to turn them completely off when not in use. Turn it off Sometimes the best way to speed up your router is to turn it off for a few seconds. It’s like any device: it takes some time to reboot. Protect your InternetMake sure your Internet is locked and set to private. It may sound simple, but if you don’t, you could have unwanted neighbors and guests using your network without your permission.
A new tablet, a new phone, even that new smartwatch… all those gadgets you bought for the holidays are sucking the juice out of your router, making your internet run at snail speed.
What can you do to speed up your internet for free?
test your setup
First things first, you need to test your internet speed, and this is actually very easy. Open your phone, your laptop, etc. Make sure you’re on your home Wi-Fi, open Google, and type “run speed test.” And it will start testing your download speed. Download speed matters when you’re watching videos, checking emails, and the like. Then it will test the upload speed. Upload speed is important for things like video conference calls, Zoom calls that you’re on all day. Going to try both. It will tell you if your Internet connection is very fast or slow.
Check the location of your router
Where you put the router is important. Routers have signals coming out of all directions, so there are some places you shouldn’t go. Experts say, for example, don’t put it in the kitchen because electrical appliances can interrupt the signal. Things like the cordless phone, microwave, baby monitor, etc. Routers aren’t the prettiest things in the world, and we put them in cabinets, but that can affect resistance. Place your router on the main floor of the house on a shelf, clear of obstacles, at a height of about 5 to 7 feet.
Count your devices
I bet you have no idea how many devices you have connected to your Wi-Fi at once. From your Airpods, to your iPads, from Alexa to game consoles. After about 10 devices, your internet will really start to slow down. So keep track of all the devices in the rooms of your house. Remember, even if they are not being used, they are still using WiFi because they are constantly being updated. So be sure to turn them completely off when not in use.
Turn it off
Sometimes the best way to speed up your router is to turn it off for a few seconds. It’s like any device: it takes some time to reboot.
secure your internet
Make sure your internet is locked and set to private. It may sound simple, but if you don’t, you could have unwanted neighbors and guests using your network without your permission.