A little ingenuity is important.
Perhaps it is expected that the load on the home Internet will be higher than usual due to unnecessary and unurgent outing restrictions. Some people are already secretly fighting for available bandwidth against their families, housemates, or people living in the neighborhood. Here are some ways to improve your home internet environment.
Basic key
If you want to optimize the Internet regardless of the number of connected devices, first review your Wi-Fi router. Where to put it, what to use ... The past article "Three Steps to Making Wi-Fi Comfortable at Home: Unreachable, Slow Wi-Fi and Goodbye" details it.
In summary: First, place the router away from obstacles that may interfere with wireless Internet signals (walls, windows, water tanks, or home appliances that emit electromagnetic waves such as cordless phones and microwave ovens). It may be good. Also, let's pause Netflix as much as when using the microwave! There is also an opinion such as.
If possible, you can also use a wired Ethernet cable. If you have problems such as not being able to reach the internet when you are in a room in the corner of your house, search for "wired LAN adapter" on Amazon.
The ones introduced here are basically not caused by multiple devices trying to connect to Wi-Fi at the same time. In the first place, trying to optimize what you get when you don't have a proper internet connection can't be expected to be effective enough. If you need it, please consider the following items.
Review the router itself
Some, such as expensive routers, provide onboard functionality to help you manage the needs of many devices. If you want to manage your home internet environment even if you spend a little more, you may consider upgrading your router or broadband service.
With a quality of service (QoS) setting that allows you to prioritize specific devices and specific types of traffic, you can even prioritize streaming over PCs that occasionally browse the net ... It will be possible.
There are also routers (albeit expensive) that can manage multiple device connections with additional antennas, more bandwidth and frequency support, and smarter network management (dynamic frequency selection, MU-MIMO, beamforming, etc.). These advanced features are common in game routers and mesh network routers.
Also, more and more of the latest routers are adopting the Wi-Fi 6 standard. As with 5G, you can expect to handle connections from many devices better, increase the maximum speed supported, and maximize stability and efficiency.
"Adjust" as much as you can
Besides improving the internet environment, there are other ways to increase the Wi-Fi speed with a little ingenuity.
For example, on YouTube you can lower the default image quality. You may be able to maintain an internet connection by lowering the quality of other streaming and apps.
Make video calls shorter than usual and switch to voice calls, or use your smartphone's data when someone at home is watching a video over Wi-Fi (if you can afford the carrier's plan) Or. You can also download the movie or series you want to watch in the middle of the night and watch it offline later.
System updates for tablets, smartphones, laptops, and consoles can be adjusted to a time when no one in the house is online at night.
Stagger the time
Perhaps the most effective thing is not to play games or videos that are overwhelming on the Internet at the same time.
It may be a good idea to consciously reserve offline time by deciding that your child's game time is before supper and your parents' movie time is after supper. Modern routers also have the ability to connect certain devices only at certain times of the day to control children's Internet access.
Not only family members living together, but also neighbors and people in the same apartment may share bandwidth. In such cases, it may be better to consider shifting the time when the internet is crowded so that you can guess the time when trains, supermarkets, and restaurants will be crowded and go out.
