Wi-Fi range and signal issues are something that happens quite oftenand that in fact it is more common in those households that they continue to use the router installed by their internet provider when they hired their services. This is something that is quite normal, as most of the supplied routers end up having quite modest features and become obsolete over time.

I have known first-hand cases of users who they had a several-year-old router that was not even compatible with the Wi-Fi 5 standard, and that they still got broadband because their carrier was increasing the connection speed but not changing the router. Today it is common to find many houses with this connection They could take advantage of the Wi-Fi 6 standard, but they don’t have a compatible router.

This is a problem because the old router it really won’t be up to us to enjoy maximum speed the connection that we pay for and also because it can be very limited in terms of Wi-Fi range and signal and in the end it can cause us serious headaches because in many cases we will not be able to solve it with a Wi-Fi repeater.

Wi-Fi range and signal: when the problem is in the router that the operator will provide us with

Range and Wi-Fi signal of our internet connection will basically be determined by the router. Granted, both values ​​can be affected by interference, distance, and obstacles you encounter, but ultimately it will be the router that determines the output value they will have. If the listed value is very bad, it is a base it will be so bad that we won’t even fix it with a Wi-Fi repeater.

We could make a very simple and very accurate analogy. If the quality of the music offered by the player is poor, do you think you could improve it by turning up the volume? No, right? The same thing happens if you try to add a Wi-Fi repeater when the wireless base provided by the router is very poor, in the end, you wouldn’t be able to really improve the user experience, because the problem comes from the router itself.

As I said at the beginning of the article, This is something that still happens quite often with the routers that the carrier provides us, and that they usually stay in our home for many years. Time does not pass in vain and eventually they become outdated devices that do not support new standards and that are not really ready to offer us a good user experience.

The ideal solution in this case would be replace the router with a more up-to-date one that it can perform not only at the level we need to take advantage of our Internet connection, but that it also has a powerful enough internal configuration to offer optimal Wi-Fi range and signal values, and that it is compatible with the Wi-Fi 6 standard. Note that for fiber optic connections, we need to connect and configure them through the ONT.

The German manufacturer AVM has very interesting options in its catalog that we can work with make the most of our internet connectionimprove range and signal strength and take advantage of all the advantages offered by the Wi-Fi 6 standard without having to make large investments. One of the best options we can find today in terms of price/performance ratio is the AVM Fritz!Box 4060, a tri-band model with Wi-Fi 6 support, capable of reaching a combined speed of up to 6 Gb/s. which is reduced to 184.99 euros.

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