Trick to have the Wifi Faster?

Olivier R. #3666

Hello,. Anyone can share tips and tricks to have the Wifi Faster?

Mike

pick a free frequency and move the ap around to find a best spot
You can have problems with the reflexes waves

Gualberto

Put the modem where there is less interference.
Middle of the house.
Put it higher (top of something)
Try de/activate band steering and the other thing and see.
But normally, the Fizz modem is very strong.

Felix D. #15236

Don't use wifi USB dongles, on your computers use internal WiFi cards with antenna if possible.

ecl2020

Have the Fizz Modem/Router installed in the middle of the house.
Disable band steering.
Append “-5G” to the 5G SSID Name.
Connect your video streaming devices to the 5G network. (Best WIFI speed)
Connect your other devices to the 2.4G wifi network. (Best WIFI signal strength)

sman

For the fast wifi use the 5G
If you need to have a better coverage this is another story

hc0468

A big factor is interference and congestion, depending on your location. If you can avoid that or choose less congested channels, that will help a lot.

Also as mentioned, placing your wireless access point or router in a central location is also important.

Then for configuring you can choose more or fewer channels depending on how congested your area is. No point in having a really wide spectrum if it will be causing lots of collisions with your neighbors.

Keep in mind that 2.4GHz will get longer range, and 5GHz has higher throughput... and most interestingly much lower and more consistent latency! So 5GHz will be consistently faster, as long as it works well enough for your client device's location.

Chris K. #7521

Use the Fizz hardware as only modem, then get a WiFi 6 router.

hc0468

If you get a Wifi 6 router... you also need WiFi 6 devices to benefit from it. So, replace all your devices? ^^

Using proper configuration even with WiFi 4 (802.11n, wireless N) would be more effective than just throwing money at the problem.

André L. #16536

When possible, avoid Wifi all together and hard-wire your network :-)  Cat 5e everywhere!  :-)

Vincent D. 39366

Do you mean receiving the router faster, or making your current router faster? Changing the frequency of the wifi router can work, and changing its position too. Otherwise, unfortunately you have to reserve a time slot. You can always try contacting Fizz here to see if they have a way they could speed up the delivery: https://fizz.ca/en/contact-us

hc0468

@André This is the internet, of course you will find Cat everywhere, can't be avoided. ^^

But yes, go for ethernet whenever possible, Cat 5e, 6, 6a...