Want faster wifi? Here are 5 weirdly easy tips.
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
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Wifi signals are made of radio waves that have a shorter wavelength than AM radio and cell phones but longer than satellite tv. How can I make my wifi faster? There are several things you can do to make your wifi faster without paying more, and they mostly have to do with the placement of your wifi router.
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You know your wifi sucks when your trying to watch a video on how to make your wifi faster and you cant cuz your wifi sucks
I'm trying to load the video and it takes 8 minutes to load yep my wi fi sucks
tru
Me too my wifi is sucks
exactly
My wifi is sucks too.
very informative. I'll leave a note on my neighbor's door.
lmao same
Lmao savage
lmao haha
haha
lol I'm commenting this by using neighbor's wifi :D
1:03 No it’s okay I think the hostage wants to use my wifi
Very thoughtful of you.. you seems to be a nice man!
Hostage me.. pls
Lol 😂
@@Kunaaaaallll I'm his hostage can confirm he's nice. I get hotdogs once a week
@@MrSirBoastAlot xd
Me : opens the comments so I can see people's reviews
People : i broke down the walls and attached my router to the fan so it flings signals faster
Yea
😂😂🤣🤣
They must've forgot the motor. Of course I know that them attaching it to a fan is a joke.
I LAUGHED SO HARD MY FAMILY WOKE UP ITS 2 IN THE MORNING
@@paschadoudou bruhhh😂
I do not think my neighbor will approve of me moving around his router.
I tried talking to them about this too, well it didn't go as I thought
+TomHasVideo LOL
+TomHasVideo Pretty inconsiderate of them.
+SuperMetal07 so he DID move it around for you?
hahahahaa
Tape your router on your head. That way you always get the best signal.
ha ha ha
Ty lol
lol hahaha
🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋
Where do I plug it in?
Hold up...y’all have a choice on where to place your router? My router has one single option, where the cable is
Lol same
Of course same
Nayo Jones longer. Cable.
My wifi ain't working on my laptop. I have no idea why. I'm either moving in the kitchen so i can plug in the cable orr i use hotspot '-' so yeh
lol yeah my partner was like "YOU'RE NOT RUNNING ETHERNET CABLES THROUGH THE HOUSE!!! IT STAYS IN THE CLOSET WITH THE MODEM!!"
1:21
Jokes on you. My router has only 1 antenna
I think I have 8 lol
i have zero
oof
You guys have routers?
@@Garudan0804 Yo Malayali
ഹേമന്ത്
Lol. Jio 4G probablyz
That moment when I realize my Router is on the floor, under the TV, and behind a bunch of walls relative to where I need it most... #feelingstupid.
Lmao nice
same here xD omg
My router is under the tv in closet
Leon Campa same...
Leon Campa my router is next to a tv and my bedroom is upstair so... bad connection
Place it in the center of your house. Try not to trip on the cords.
XD
Rem Grett lmao
Even better put it upside down on the ceiling. Put an aluminum "Grease splatter" plate behind it to Amp up the signal.
@@beltotruth9403 brilliant. I heard a lot about the use of aluminum foils. Gonna try it.
Vox: Don't put your router near other electronics
Mr.Beast: Today we're going to microwave a router and see what happens
why mr beast?
@@someidiot4311he used to do that stuff
Me: mom we need to put wifi way from electronics
Mom: why?
Me: because it will make the wifi better
Mom: *how about you stop using wifi*
👁👄👁
Ah yes of course moms
Kid : Can we have wifi
Mom : We have wifi at home
*Wi-Fi at home* : 📻
Mom: your pfp
Family just has to have it right next to the computer at the very far end of the house”opposite of the 4 main rooms” just so one little Ethernet cable can go into it for extra speed for regular web browsing no streaming no gaming barely any use
My router doesn't even have a single antenna...
Probably internal. Don't open it up BTW.
+Saphir3000 all you could do now i guess is to keep it in the center of your home and on high surface
+Saphir3000 Yeah what is it? 2009? Newer routers generally don't have antenna anymore.
+juaxox a router with internal antenna is only for smaller areas
+juaxox Dude mine has 6 sticking out of it, signal strength is very good I can even pick it up from down the block.
lol, dont place routers around other electronic devices
aah impossible
Same here. I have to have my router plugged into my PC and it's one of the 2 places in my house where there is an ethernet socket
so your saying i shouldn't put my router in a microwave?
That's not wifi, thats ethernet, you're already getting max speed if it's wired to the pc. Unless you got a 10Gbps network and not a Cat6 cable to go with it but you're on this video so I doubt it :P
No, no no, put it in the microwave, the heat helps the electron wave move faster! Trust me it sounds smart.
rai ZOR I call it microrouter or 🤔routerwave
Unknown fact: when bluetooth headphones are on, it actually drastically lowers your wifi. Bcs both wifi and bluetooth hertz are roughly same. At home, just use a normal headphone
Rather wouldn't wires get in the way
My ping on games are still the same though?
@@ketsu9670 mine is not. Do you use wifi? Or cable net? Are the hertz of your headphone and wifi same?
This is true.
Also, a solution to fix the interference from the 2.4 GHz devices (microwave ovens, Bluetooth) - which, unfortunately, might require further investments into home network: get dual-band router/mesh system (depending on the size of the housing) with 5 GHz WiFi, and make sure the device you pair your Bluetooth headphones to (whether it's a phone, tablet, or a laptop) also supports dual-band connections (802.11ac/ax, i.e. WiFi 5 or 6 in device specs is a good indicator); this way the device, when in router's vicinity, will most likely connect to it through 5 GHz, thus allowing the connection to avoid interference from Bluetooth and get the full speed.
My brother does something better... he kept the router in his freaking room... so, full signal only for him...
PS: and he's not even pay the bill... 🙃
My brother did the same thing. Except he pays for it
Why don’t you get a wifi repeater
Oompa Loompa do those help?
Steal it out of his room and lock it in a "phone cage" (google that), with a lock on it.
😁😁
why does the narrator sound like he's ASKING QUESTIONS? He's supposed to be telling us what to do.
"Uptalking." Drives me nuts.
+OscarMaris What? I don't feel that at all.
+OscarMaris because he's not really sure if what he's saying is factual...
+OscarMaris Yea and talks like he doesn't want his lips touching each other.
What on Earth people? You lot are such pricks!
And the stupid video won't load. Thanks you damn wifi
XD lmao
Same snd I'm using my data
+Cynthia Guo I downloaded WinRAR setup file the other day, it was in a RAR package.
He just said to smash your router with a hammer ;)
BPXRockU
I did and now I have no wifi :(
This is how to get a better connection, Not how to get "faster" wifi
Better Connection= Faster WiFi Speeds
@@ethanmantanona2122 my connection is 5 feet away, It's good, but the download and upload speed + ping is what I came here for
Skyderz you can only talk about it to your internet provider, even if you can somehow increase the download/upload speed from your side, it won’t be significant
Skyderz yeah positioning of the router if you don’t have an Ethernet cable can help a ton get better reception
I mean technically worse connection=slower speeds
Imagine having good wifi, smh
- This post was made by 500ping and 100kB/s download speed gang
Wait, 500 ping is bad?
wait, 100kb/s is bad?
intresting
i wish i have 100kB/s speed : )
i can't go above 1636b/s : )
I failed every single one of these.
+Kley De Jong mines in the basement lol
+MacKaledy haha board-casting Wifi downwards to China then?
Gary Willis Im not south american so no.. and bro look at the thumbnail again it shows you how the waves expand if the antennae are vertical right sideways..
not everybody lives in america
Kley De Jong same :(
Ok, my english not very good. I place my router in closet floor under microwave oven both antennas parallel, yes?
+RealationGames yep, seems about right.....
+RealationGames If you could put it in the basement and wrap it in foil, that would be even better.
+RealationGames W
Aluminium foil you should've mentioned, before storing it inside a metal box, and then placing it in the basement.
You have a microwave oven under your closet floor? :D
No one:
Globe&Pldt: Dont let them see this rn
hahaha so true bro
globe internet connection on a rainy day: *Adios*
My pldt WiFi is 300 kb
@@user-mv2wi3iq8y good for u
@@darylclaros6383 thanks xd
RUclips really recommending this after ps5s router box got released
lol facts
And I got an ad about it
I actually thought you were serious
And the router in the vid is the same color👀
Hello
Wrongly titled. The subject cover is Wifi signal strength not Wifi speed.
+Richard Hoepfner
True, but Wifi signal strength and Wifi speed are also tightly coupled.
+Richard Hoepfner Also 9/11.
+Richard Hoepfner Big deal asswipe
>says true statement
>gets hated on for being right
GG
lightningstrike 46 Lmao I love the GG part
I'm a wireless network engineer. Antennas pointing opposite directions is an easy red flag for "someone doesn't know what they are doing". It causes "hidden node" connection problems, as well as also impairing a lot of the MIMO and multipath-based algorithms. The only place having antennas pointing in different directions helps is on the client device, if you do that to the router (access point) you are just making things worse (and more unpredictable).
Lou Maccarone savage
RTS/CTS has been implemented in WiFi for many years and deals with the hidden node problem.
Prosze pana, pan nie wie o czym pan mówi.
Why do I keep getting told “where to place my router” as if I have some sort of choice in the matter? Where should I place my router? By the port that has the connection. Next: where to place your toilet!
Bruh cables exist
Graegole S
Even Access points exist for larger houses :D
Extension cables?
ya hate unicorns?
you can raise/lower it, mount it to a wall, etc. and move the antennas; but if you have it in a closet, a friend actually velcro-tape mounted hers to the wall of the closet facing the door, and it made a huge difference,
Tried all of his advise, ended up paying 150$ for tech request appointment.
You could've just bought a repeater or new router for that same amount of money.
my router is on fire in the fridge. what's the next step?
+Xmus Jaxon Flaxon-Waxon III LEL
Fap harder..
thehomiealan lmao
LMAO!!!
Gary Stinten ha😂😂😂
my router is literally attached to the back of my tv with 3m adhesive
+Dee Ster You should be OK, microwaves, baby cams and wireless video cams cause the most problems.
+Dan Bronson Shit I have my router duct taped to the inside of my microwave, which is also where I attached my wireless video cam so i can watch my food cook from my bedroom
***** i think you're fine
+Dee Ster Well according to the video, your tv has a motor in it. Nice!
+William Kattelman Depending on the television it could have a fan. Maybe they're talking about old ray-tube TVs but only had the footage for a new one (not really sure if old TVs would have much effect, I'm too stupid at the moment to know).
My router is on the ceiling of the toilet...just in the middle of the house
oh hello there, ive seen you before?
@@mrpaz410 😂😂😂😂
me looking at my wifi router on the floor in a corner next to my tv: *hoo boy*
You sure need these tips when you have a TP-Link router.
This video is better than that buzzfeed video. Thank you Vox.
I mean, my Wi-Fi is already fast even though it's near a TV...
Just think about how much faster you can make your WiFi
Weird flex but ok?
Mine is inches beside the tv on a speaker, it doesn't have antennas tho-
Why did you watch this if your WiFi is already good
Dude, this video is about how to get better connected to the internet not to get better or faster wfi smh
This is great. One problem not mentioned, you're limited where you can put the router depending where the telephone or cable point is that's coming in from outside.
Orienting router antennas perpendicularly, will disable the MIMO capabilities of your router. While it is true that matching polarity between antennas (vertical or horizontal) works best when you have direct line of sight (LoS) between devices, as soon as you put walls and other objects between them, the signals starts reflecting, and taking different paths to reach your device. MIMO is built into all Wifi routers with multiple antennas (as well as 3G/4G/LTE), and it allows the router to increase total bandwidth by sending different signals through each antenna following the reflected paths to your device.
For MIMO to work properly all the router antennas need to be parallel.
Similarly, modern high end routers include something called beam steering which is where the same signal is sent from multiple (usually 3 or more) antennas as once slightly out of phase such that all the signals reinforce each other in one specific direction and cancel each other in ever other direction. A high end router can literally target up to 4 individual devices this way. This greatly increases the signal strength when talking to devices in far corners of the house and increases bandwidth everywhere. Again, this only works when all router antennas are parallel to each other.
When the antennas are perpendicular to each other, the signal from one will be 20-30dB weaker than the other so they cannot work together.
I can only add the fact that antennas send signal around them, but not in the direction of pointy part of antenna. So basically you send signal to ceiling and basement, but not in the direction your antenna is pointed
why is this guy asking a question in every sentence?
I turned my volume off
He's not tho
0:32 "One thing you definitely want to do is put the router near the center of your house?" Lol
...ok, let me get my 100 foot coax cable out of the closet......
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
As a wifi specialists i can tell this is accurate
what is a wifi specialist doing here : )
Just get a router that kicks your neighbor’s WiFi off aggressively
The title should be: "Want stronger WiFi signal?"
Is no one gonna talk about eminem narrating this?
tf?
?
he did?
I think LA 2000 is referring to the speed he is talking, which I personally have no issue with.
@@josoup8291 oh
Best 2 minutes of my time - loved how straight to the point this is! Many thanks.
Me, with a cylinder router: 👁️👄👁️
Aaahh same
Vox narrator: dou you even vocalize, bro?
who else has slow wifi during quarantine
You need a new router. It happens before the coronavirus for me.
As for the title of the video, I thought aluminum foil will be on the list. Oh well.
Love the way you talk! Kind of calming and pleasant to hear.
Simple short and informative
Just what we needed
Also don't use a channel that other people nearby are using because the waves can cancel each other out and force retransmissions. This is a big problem for enterprise Wi-Fi deployments in multi-tenant buildings. I should know, I've deployed Wi-Fi for enterprises; I'm a network engineer.
***** Yes, you can indeed. There's many apps that can tell you nearby Wi-Fi channels. "Wi-Fi Analyzer" is a popular one. Without getting into the physics of it, overlapping waves will force you to re-transmit. If you're using 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, you'll want to use 1, 6, or 11 (or 14 if available). For 5.0 GHz, there's more channels and dynamic protocols to pick them so if you can use it, use that. Changing it will depend on your access point ("router") but it should be available in the settings. Here's a decent article: www.howtogeek.com/197268/how-to-find-the-best-wi-fi-channel-for-your-router-on-any-operating-system/. Hopefully that'll help you out :-)
***** No problem man. Good luck with your Wi-Fi.
Not quite. For 2.4 GHz, only use channels 1, 6, or 11 because WiFi broadcasts are 20 MHz wide, but the channels listed are only 5 MHz wide. WiFi networks sharing the same channel, say 6 can co-operate and share air time whereas WiFi networks on adjacent channels say 4 and 6 are overlapping but not completely and are pure interference. To fix WiFi in a multi tenant building everyone must use 1, 6, and 11 which modern routers do out of the box. But there is always someone "smarter" who changes it to an overlapping channel and makes it bad for everyone including themselves. Also multi-tenant, don't use 40 MHz channels, stick to 20 MHz.
That has not been my experience at all. I live in relatively high density housing and there are about 20 strong 2.4Ghz Wifi networks visible from my upper floor. Virtually all of them are on ch1, 6 and 11 as those are the router defaults, but if I let my router use any of those 3 channels then the performance is truly dreadful (cuts my max throughput to 1-3Mbit/s). They do not play nice with each other at all. I switched to ch3, and performance has been greatly improved (up to 30-40Mbit/s). I doubt that the folks on 1 and 6 are hurt any worse by my small overlap than they already are by the other 6 networks each channel is sharing with. Wifi networks only "cooperate" via "listen before send" so if the channel is full of traffic, you simply get less bandwidth.
My biggest improvement though has been to get off of 2.4Ghz and use 5Ghz as much as possible. Most people own 5Ghz capable routers, but never use it. In my neighborhood I'm the only one. Total range and penetration is a bit reduced, but when router antennas are oriented properly or when closer to the router, I can get a full 60Mbit/s over 5Ghz.
The shorter range and penetration is actually an advantage in high density housing because you interfere with, and are interfered with over a much smaller radius.
smithydll some one with common sense! that's right bro!
And number 6, the most important one for people living in blocks of flats: Change your broadcasting channel to a less busy one. This means run a quick scan to see which broadcasts you can see, check what channel they're broadcasting in, pick a different channel than the most common one. Channels still interfere with +-5 around them, so Channel 1 is only completely separate from Channel 6 and up, etc.
I get crap wifi and have never channel shared
better add for 2.4 ghz dont try to pick a channel other than 1, 6, or 11 If you pick another one you will cause interference for yourself and everyone in your range
Yep, 1. 6, and 11 are the non-overlapping channels. WiFi broadcasts are 20 MHz wide but the channels are 5 MHz, which means channel 1 broadcasts over channels -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, channel 6 broadcasts over channels 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, channel 11 broadcasts over channels 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Interesting
Most routers do this automatically when setting up
Video gets straight to content. Amazing.
Informative, to the point and well produced. Kudos!
I use a Tinfoil to steal my neighbours wifi 😂
Whaa? How?
lol
GrubyBueno Just cover your ordinary router with an aluminum foil to give that extra boost. NASA does it all the times with the satellite equipments to boost the communication signals with the aliens. ☻
Thanks, I'll leave a note to the neighbor
Savage
Great, I'm doing exactly the opposite of each step.
You saved my life M8
I can thank you one day with no stop you are a hero litteraly!
Outstanding, and yet such a simple video.
01:23 yeah but OCD, man, OCD doesn't allow me to.
lifeincolour09 ikr that really annoys me 😂😂
dont forget to delete system32
Felix omg ty soo much i deleted system32 and my wifi is now fast like flash
Thx bro. This solves all my problems
i deleted system32 my pc got really fast thanks.
Is this some kind of joke? Btw I'm just asking you clown
What are they thinking!?!
Very useful information, I liked it a lot.
Thanks i found this very helpful
Thanks for the informative video.
Oh my hod thankyou my download is 60 minutesinstead of 1 hour❤️
tf??
Rip English
LOL
Is this sarcastic or are u for real😭😂
wow
thank you for these tips now i can download and update stuff a lot faster, its like i have a gb download speed
i got that cloudcheck app and it's freaking great (free, no 'in-app purchases' just works) you can turn a BEEP on while doing the Wifi Sweetspots function, leave your phone somewhere in the house really loud, and go futs with the router antennas, it DOES make a difference!!! wow, I ended up putting my router on the wall, with one antenna angled sideways, one 45 degrees and the other straight up; about 5 feet off the ground, moved towards the center of the closet. it made a HUGE difference. e.g. in my master bathroom it went down to 3mbps from our usual 300+mbps cable internet; after moving the router it now averages 190mpbs. I had given up on using wifi in that bathroom because it'd keep cutting out. THANK YOU!!!
I always get the antennae back to its original vertical position every time my cat leaves a disoriented direction of the antennae after sleeping on top of the router. So this means my cat has been right all along. Got it.
I think you forgot to mention to manually adjust the WiFi band on which your devices connect with your router. Especially in cities and dense neighborhoods WiFi networks interfere with each other. There are a lot of apps analysing the WiFi bands surrounding you and changing your own one can in some cases dramatically improve signal strength and data speed.
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Amazing Video! Short and simple
the antenna trick you mentioned worked well.
I was having loud conversations about wanting better wifi near my phone and now this is finally being recommended. Thank god. Sometimes the spying is helpful.
microwaves are the worst for wifi
Try taking it out of the microwave.
lol!!!
+T Hoang Useless fact: the 2.4GHz radio band was deemed useless for commercial purposes because of leaky microwave ovens. This unsellable band in the radio spectrum is now free for everyone simply because of dodgy appliances.
Had that tplink router used in this vid forever. Just upgraded and so much better
Great tips on router placement!
Antenna of access points / home routers should always be facing in the same orientation as they depend on each other for situations such as multi-path & MIMO.
I concur: in some cases placing antennas perpendicularly might help; quote RMerlin (author of a popular, OpenWRT-like firmware for Asus routers): "While it will depend on your specific environment, the most generic recommendation is to keep all antennas vertical if covering a single floor, or orient half of them at 45 degrees if covering multiple floors.
Orienting some of them at 45 degrees might help for some single floor environment, depending on the kind of obstacles present in the direct line of sight between the router and the clients"
That being said, in an apartment building it really is preferable to place antennas vertically: this way you'll minimize interference you inflict on the neighbours' routers from lower and upper floors, and if they're doing the same - their interference on your router.
@@DrCranium True, if they need to be in certain positions for best performance the instructions will usually say so anyway. Alternatively you can get ones with internal antennas which are already positioned in the ideal positions, despite being internal and smaller if it's designed well it won't matter.
I won't think my neighbour would let me to do something with the router. Just using it for free from my friend.
too bad
excellent ..its working 💕💕💕 thanks vox
Thanks, your video was helpful
i have a solution! plug a Ethernet cable into your phone!
+Gavin Crane As ridiculous as this sounds, there are some use cases for this. I've done it myself.
+cfuse how do you actually plug one in :o
Want faster Wifi-
8M people: did you call my name?
I just got some info! Thank you guys I love ya
Great Video. Thank you
I think that the part they says to put one antenna horizontally is a mistake. The signal goes and form like a 3D ring around the antenna, doing that it will transmit basically to the upper and below floor/level. the best is to put the antennas slightly inclined, so if your router has MIMO, this will improve the signal around the coverage area.
Is this being recommended to me again now because of the ps5?? 😂😂
veeeerryy thought full..Thanks
Really useful especially during the Zoom Lessons Session
I have a 1000 Mbps plan and run wireless internet and get around 20 Mbps. My router says it supports 1600 Mbps, so what do I do to optimize the speed? Thanks!
There are so many factors. Your router is dual-band (i know that because wifi only goes up to 968mbps), and only supports up to 968mbps + 600mbps but not on the same device. Your phone/tablet/TV/phone may also not support wifi ac or ad, so it might only support wireless n, which is pretty slow. Also you might be using 2.4GHz band, in which you have to switch to 5Ghz to get the faster speed. This is usually a different wifi network. Also its "up to 968mbps" not "968mbps" because other devices may use up some of 2.4GHz or 5GHz, leaving your wifi network with only some of it.
Use your neighbors wifi
Vekays use 20mhz band instead of 40mhz it works better then this not 1000mbps but ya uts can gives you 50+
Could be because of your device.
Cameron Smyllie -1000 subs with no good content i get 700 mbps.
Thanks for the tips lumpy princess :)
The different pointing antenna tip was nice thanks
If a kidnapper offered me Strong WiFi in their van I’d be kidnapped rn
Alt title : how to make ur ps5 faster
So, if a door gonna absorb some of the connection... Will the door send Google the anatomy of a door itself?
Great video. Well I always knew line of site was the best rule of thumb
Thanks for the valuable information.
never in my entire life have I seen a router with an antenna
I never seen routers without antennas bro
lol, how about a "wifi-router"?
Thurnis Haley what?
Most mid-range routers have them. Mine has 3
Mine has 4 antennas, dual 2.4ghz and 5ghz. Great investment!!
robber: hey kid want candy!
kid: nah
Robber: I have wifi in my car
kid: SURE!!!!
that vertical/horizontal setup is new to me, thx..!
very very helpful. thank you very much
Who is here after watching PS5 design reveal 😂
Router be like: bruhh...
Me?
Only me I guess
.-.
Too much hassle, I'll just stick with dial up.
Awesome vib 👍🏾
I enjoyed watching it
Nice video thanks man