When it comes to getting online in your own home, it’s annoying to have to deal with a Wi-Fi dead zone. The good news: the fix is easier and cheaper.
“The router for our house is on one side of the house, while most of the time we’re on the other side of the house. It was kind of getting hard to use the Wi-Fi without being in the living room,” he said.“It changed the Wi-Fi completely,” he said. “All of a sudden now it worked everywhere in the house.”use several routers together to spread the Wi-Fi signal throughout your home and around obstacles.
Consumer Reports tests routers for what matters most: how fast they send a Wi-Fi signal from several distances and data privacy and security. aced all of Consumer Reports’ distance tests. They can be set up using an app and have automatic firmware updates to help protect you and your data online.
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