If you start to notice that your WiFi connection isn’t what it should be, that’s when you should look into boosting your WiFi. You know the signs, movies freeze, YouTube videos buffer, webpages won’t load, and your online gaming is a glitching nightmare. We’ve all experienced it. When your WiFi signal suffers, everything connected to WiFi suffers.
Creating stronger WiFi can mean a few things and can be done a few different ways:
- Increasing your WiFi signal range in your home
- Increasing your WiFi speeds
- Increasing both your WiFi range and speeds
In this article we will cover some tips and tricks to boost your WiFi, and also make a case for when it’s best to use WiFi and when it’s best to wire devices to your network. Because believe it or not, even in today’s incredibly wireless world, there is still a lot of room for wires.
Increasing Your WiFi Signal Range
While there are a few ways to get boosted Internet, try the following first:
- Restart your router
- Re-position your router
- Change the wireless channel on your router
- Switch the frequency your router is on
Do you see the pattern? With WiFi issues, it usually comes back to your router since it is the central hub of your wireless network. Choosing a good router, placement, and settings can increase WiFi range, but even then, it sometimes isn’t enough.
Increasing Your WiFi Speeds
That’s where the wires come in. Moving bandwidth-hungry devices over to your wired network takes the burden off your WiFi router. Not only that, but a direct wire connection is always reliable.
Increasing BOTH Signal Range and WiFi Speeds
To get BOTH WiFi range/coverage AND improved speeds, start with the foundation of your connection – your network backbone. Wired connections are superior to wireless because WiFi signals are vulnerable to obstacles and interferences that can interrupt your WiFi signal. MoCA Adapters use your existing cable TV wiring, also known as coaxial wiring, to create an Ethernet-over-coax network connection. MoCA Adapters convert your coax wiring into an Ethernet connection to create a solid backbone for your WiFi network.
MoCA adapters are used to make your Internet speeds faster AND give you more reliable WiFi. This is because they harness the speeds of a wired coax network backbone to help distribute your network connection to more places in your home to create a better Internet connection, where ever you have coax wiring, even in your garage. Add a WiFi Extender or Mesh to take your wireless signal even farther. With a better connection, you get a stronger WiFi signal and faster speeds.
Using a combination wired/wireless WiFi booster, like coax to Ethernet MoCA adapters, is a win-win solution. This is because it leverages the speed and reliability of a wired connection to reach your WiFi signal to every corner of your home.
Boosting Your WiFi with MoCA, Get the Best of Both Worlds – Wired and Wireless:
- Achieve up to 1 Gbps speeds over your MoCA network
- Better WiFi speed because it harnesses the speed of your coax (Gigabit speeds)
- Better streaming & gaming because your devices are on a direct, reliable connection
- Better video calls for working from home or remote school because your devices are not vulnerable to the interferences that WiFi experiences
- Better connectivity throughout your home or garage, where ever coax is present
Wires can definitely make your WiFi better. MoCA Adapters are easy to set up and you get the benefit of an instant Ethernet connection without the mess of running wires or drilling holes.
Hitron’s MoCA Adapters are available to purchase on Amazon. For a better understanding about MoCA technology and MoCA adapters, check out our MoCA Network Adapters page and the Complete Guide to MoCA. For more information and articles about MoCA or WiFi Boosters, check out Hitron’s Learn Page or blog for more.
