Corner with concrete on both sides, steel beams, furnace electrical, and all 240 runs to stove, air conditioner, dryer all close by is not a great place. I also moved my Hitron, by pulling the coax from its current location (they gave me about 75 feet extra cable and it is in an unfinished area of my basement, and have moved it around looking for a better placement. Play with it and figure out what works best - I can't say that it is a perfect solution, but it works for me.
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There are apps you can put on your phone to switch from one to the other as you move around, but there is a lag in the switch, and if you are doing a data download or something like that, you will get cut off. I have mine named two different names, and I just switch manually. There are two ways you can set the name of the device - you can name it the same as your hitron and password, and when you need to grab the better signal, turn your wifi off, then turn it back on. On your phone or tablet, it won't switch unless you switch it.
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That app will map signals around your home as well as allow you to check strength.īy the way, if you have roaming set on the adapter on a Windows device, it will switch to the best signal. Get yourself an app on your phone like WIFI analyzer or anything like that to figure out your best placement. The other option, but expensive and probably the best is one of the new Mesh systems from Google and most other companies have them. The basement installs are probably the worst place you can have them, but that usually where you cable from Rogers comes - back from the days when they used modems only, you ran cable and a router to somewhere. I set the device to fixed IP - it is pretty straight forward to use and the support is great if you contact them.īest solution in my home is a router, which also has the issue of dead spots, the Hitron is useless for anything but maybe 1/3 of my house. Mine fortunately is plugged into a cat 5-e cable so I don't lose any throughput speed which you will loose some if you go with the extender doing the load of connecting to the Hitron, and providing IP address and signal to your devices on DHCP. That device was 59.99 on sale at Best Buy when I got it, and you can always return it (probably) if you find it doesn't do the trick for you. I still get poor signal in one corner of my main floor, just because of the structural design of the house. Have a Dlink 1620 in my upstairs bedroom, that provides good coverage for the upstairs, and the corners of the main floor.
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