Wi-Fi coverage guides
62 plain-English guides on dead zones, extender and mesh placement, awkward floor plans and the rooms that never get signal.
- All guides
- 📡 Wi-Fi Coverage Basics
- 📍 Extender & Mesh Placement
- 🏠 Homes & Floor Plans
- 🚪 Rooms & Spaces
- 🛠️ Troubleshooting
- ✨ Using Range Up
Wi-Fi in the Garage: Placement for an Attached or Detached Space
Fire-rated walls, a steel door, and a car parked in the signal path — plan around all three.
Rooms & SpacesBackyard and Patio Wi-Fi Without Running Cable
Low-E glass can cost more than a brick wall. Where to aim the extender, and when to go outside.
Rooms & SpacesA Home Office Wi-Fi Setup That Survives Video Calls
Why calls fail on upload, the dBm target at the chair, and the cable that ends the problem.
Rooms & SpacesWhy the Upstairs Bedroom Always Has the Worst Wi-Fi
The diagonal through the floor, the steel in your mattress, and the landing outlet that fixes most of it.
Rooms & SpacesAttic and Loft Conversions: Covering the Top Floor
Foil-backed insulation, two floors and a fire door — and the one landing that gets around all three.
Rooms & SpacesThe Kitchen Dead Zone: Microwaves, Metal and 2.4 GHz
One problem lasts three minutes, the other lasts all day. Telling them apart takes five minutes.
Rooms & SpacesLiving Room Streaming: Fixing a Buffering Smart TV
The weakest antenna in the house, hiding behind a metal panel — plus the Mbps that decide the fix.
Rooms & SpacesGarden Office and Shed Wi-Fi: Getting Signal Across the Yard
A decision table by yard distance, and why the extender aimed at the window rarely wins.
TroubleshootingVideo Calls Keep Dropping? How to Tell If It Is Your Wi-Fi
Two ping tests, the jitter numbers that matter, and fixes ranked from free to a new node.
TroubleshootingGaming Lag and Wi-Fi: Latency, Jitter and Where You Sit
Ping spikes, bufferbloat and the extender hop — why buying more Mbps never fixed your lag.
TroubleshootingSmart Home Devices Keep Dropping Off Wi-Fi
Weak 2.4 GHz edges, a full DHCP pool and band steering — plus what an extender can and cannot fix.
TroubleshootingWi-Fi Drops When You Walk Between Rooms: Roaming Explained
Your phone picks the moment to switch radios, and it picks badly. How to move that moment into a hallway.