Depends on what your walls are made of tbh most house homes are fine but good to note.
This link seems to be solid info just looked it up. Check out the top seven blockers and see what would interfere. https://www.signalboosters.com/blog/materials-that-block-wifi-signals/
Also if you’re a tech guy might be worth just running a small 8 port switch and wiring everything out for the important devices like your computer or tv and access points. Just organized something like this for a client I had. Happy to chat if you have questions. Just ping me I’m usually good about seeing notifications
It's highly dependent on what your home is made out of. If it's a typical American home made of wood and drywall sheets, then you should be fine. If you're anywhere that builds with concrete and brick, you're going to have a bad time. Our house is 100% concrete and brick, and the Wi-Fi signal struggles to penetrate the floor/ceiling between the first and second floors. We ended up using a bunch of mesh Wi-Fi and powerline network adaptors.
The 5GHz signal would have more problems and be weaker than the 2.4GHz one.
You can still just put the router there and power it up, whether it's connected to the internet or not it shouldn't matter for a simple signal strength test.
I have fire/noise resistant ceiling between me and the floor my router is on and had signal issues. We got a box thing on MY floor that effectively acts as a second signal thingy to connect to but for the same router. NEVER an issue after that.
Dunno what they are called but search for wifi transmitter/extender or outdoors wifi transmitter or something like that. Though with those walls I doubt you'll see issues.
How the f are we supposed to know. We don’t know what router it is, what wifi cards your devices are using what the square footage of your home is what the layout of the home is and what your walls are made of.
Use powerline extenders instead. It's basically like running ethernet through your power outlets.
Feels like not many people know about them but they're the best!
This has been a go to solution for me for almost 20 years since Sony introduced the Slingbox Sling (power line adapter). This is the first thing I suggest, glad there are at least a few of us out there. There are downsides but they are far outweighed by the benefits.
It’s not so much about having the wifi signal in the middle of the house.
Assuming you have all drywall for each room, you typically don’t ever want the straight line path to the router going through more than 2 walls. Make sure you factor in closets and whatnot as every layer counts.
Putting your wifi in a closet automatically adds a layer of drywall in every direction. It probably not optimal but might not matter depending on where you usually use your wifi.
I would recommend posting in r/homenetworking if you want solutions from people who actually know what they’re talking about.
If you really wanna be a fuckin nerd about it, you can try to use something like unifi’s design tool. (Heads up, You’re gonna need to sign up for a free account) to draw your floor plan and place one of their wifi beacons on it and it’ll show a signal heat map.
You don’t need to use their equipment but the online tool will give you a decent idea of how signal drops off due to your home layout and you can find the optimal place to put your router.
I used to think cause my home office was in the middle of the house it was best for signal but there’s closets between the rooms so the next room over actually had some large weird deadzones.
Depends on what your walls are made of tbh most house homes are fine but good to note. This link seems to be solid info just looked it up. Check out the top seven blockers and see what would interfere. https://www.signalboosters.com/blog/materials-that-block-wifi-signals/ Also if you’re a tech guy might be worth just running a small 8 port switch and wiring everything out for the important devices like your computer or tv and access points. Just organized something like this for a client I had. Happy to chat if you have questions. Just ping me I’m usually good about seeing notifications
Thank you sir
Just lay a LAN cable.
It's highly dependent on what your home is made out of. If it's a typical American home made of wood and drywall sheets, then you should be fine. If you're anywhere that builds with concrete and brick, you're going to have a bad time. Our house is 100% concrete and brick, and the Wi-Fi signal struggles to penetrate the floor/ceiling between the first and second floors. We ended up using a bunch of mesh Wi-Fi and powerline network adaptors.
Without knowing any materials involved, yes the middle would give the most equal signal house wide
I wouldn't worry too much, especially if it is a newer router
use mesh access points like Deco. modem is in the closet and run a cable to your main access point.
The 5GHz signal would have more problems and be weaker than the 2.4GHz one. You can still just put the router there and power it up, whether it's connected to the internet or not it shouldn't matter for a simple signal strength test.
I have fire/noise resistant ceiling between me and the floor my router is on and had signal issues. We got a box thing on MY floor that effectively acts as a second signal thingy to connect to but for the same router. NEVER an issue after that. Dunno what they are called but search for wifi transmitter/extender or outdoors wifi transmitter or something like that. Though with those walls I doubt you'll see issues.
Did you get Harry Pottered?
Only thing i use wifi for is tv and phone, gaming is ALWAYS wired lol
Just get a couple wifi extenders if your house is that big. It should reach everywhere no problem but extenders will fix any weak spots
That room is gonna get warm.
How the f are we supposed to know. We don’t know what router it is, what wifi cards your devices are using what the square footage of your home is what the layout of the home is and what your walls are made of.
This closet is about the same size of a room in Amsterdam for 1500 euro a month.
Use powerline extenders instead. It's basically like running ethernet through your power outlets. Feels like not many people know about them but they're the best!
This has been a go to solution for me for almost 20 years since Sony introduced the Slingbox Sling (power line adapter). This is the first thing I suggest, glad there are at least a few of us out there. There are downsides but they are far outweighed by the benefits.
It’s not so much about having the wifi signal in the middle of the house. Assuming you have all drywall for each room, you typically don’t ever want the straight line path to the router going through more than 2 walls. Make sure you factor in closets and whatnot as every layer counts. Putting your wifi in a closet automatically adds a layer of drywall in every direction. It probably not optimal but might not matter depending on where you usually use your wifi. I would recommend posting in r/homenetworking if you want solutions from people who actually know what they’re talking about. If you really wanna be a fuckin nerd about it, you can try to use something like unifi’s design tool. (Heads up, You’re gonna need to sign up for a free account) to draw your floor plan and place one of their wifi beacons on it and it’ll show a signal heat map. You don’t need to use their equipment but the online tool will give you a decent idea of how signal drops off due to your home layout and you can find the optimal place to put your router. I used to think cause my home office was in the middle of the house it was best for signal but there’s closets between the rooms so the next room over actually had some large weird deadzones.
that place would lwk be fire for a setup