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Q: Can you explain how to use a Wi-Fi analyzer app? A: Wi-Fi has become an essential utility for most homes and making sure the signal is adequate in high-usage areas is key. When a Wi-Fi signal is ...

When you work from home, Wi-Fi is as important as any of your other utilities: electricity, gas and water. You need a strong and stable connection throughout your house. You may pay for high-speed ...

Getting a strong Wi-Fi signal in every corner of your home is not always easy. Sometimes, you notice slow speeds or dropped connections in certain rooms, and it can be tough to figure out why. Testing ...

While strength is often visually represented in the form of cones, bars, or dots, it’s really calculated in the form of decibels per milliwatt, or dBm. A perfect signal is -30dBm, which you’ll ...

You can easily check your Wi-Fi signal's strength, right down to the exact dBm levels, on a Mac or PC computer. Signal strength is measured in decibel milliwatts (dBm ...

Troubleshooting your wifi can be an exercise in frustration. Why aren’t you getting the speeds you promised? Why does your phone lose connection behind the fish tank? Just how much of a difference is ...

The coronavirus pandemic is now in its third year, which means that many former commuters are now in their third year of working from home. Even folks who are back in the office a few days a week are ...

I need to compare the relative signal quality and strength between two access points. Im looking for a simple utility which can do this and display a graph or metrics comparing the two. I have an XP ...