Find The Best Location for your Router To Get actually good Wi-Fi

26 August, 2019 — James Brandon

Having a Wi-Fi connection in your home or office is very convenient as it allows you to access the internet from the comfort of your seat. But how strong is your Wi-Fi connection? Weaker Wi-Fi connections may end up frustrating you since internet pages may take longer to load or not even load at all.

To ensure that your Wi-Fi signals are strong enough, you need to have powerful equipment and most importantly, you need to place your router in an ideal and uninterrupted location. Some apps can help you to know the ideal location to place your router.

Wi-Fi Heatmap

Wi-Fi heatmap is an easy-to-use app that provides you with a heatmap for your Wi-Fi signal whether the router is located indoors or outdoors. The app has a signal coverage map that allows you to see the signal strength in all the areas near your router. The app also has a connection speed map feature that indicates the speed of your wireless connection. With the app on your phone, you can detect the best location to place your router so that you can have the best connection.

To use Wi-Fi heatmap:

• Download and install the app on your phone

• Launch the app by tapping on its icon

• Connect to your Wi-Fi network

• Tap on CREATE HEATMAP and select Indoor on the next page that appears.

• Tap SELECT FLOORPLAN to upload your floorplan from your gallery or tap on DRAW FLOORPLAN to draw your own floor plan

• After drawing your floorplan, tap on the Save button located on the bottom right side of the screen

• On the popup message that appears tap on the CREATE HEATMAP button

• Move marker according to your location and press “MARK” button. The color of the spot depends on the signal strength. Green is good, red is poor.

• Move to another place, about 3 meters away from previous point.

• Repeat walking and spotting until map becomes full.

• You can tap the save button to save the project. You can view the heatmap saved in your gallery.