It’s already summer and Wi-Fi becomes one of the big protagonists in many cases this time of year. It is a time when we can enjoy a little more free time, mainly thanks to the summer holidays, and we also find that we have more hours in the day, which encourages us to be more active and do more things.

and with good weather we make the most of gardens and generally any outdoor area of ​​our home. Whether you’re lucky enough to have a garden with a swimming pool or just a small terrace for alfresco sipping, the important thing is that you can enjoy the moment in the end, and for this one I’m sure you’ll want your Wi -Fi worked without problems.

We are aware of the importance of Wi-Fi in the summer, namely it often doesn’t work well outside. That’s why we wanted to share this article with you, where we will give you three tips to help you have your wireless network ready to enjoy a round summer, in a simple way and without big investments.

1.-Wi-Fi repeaters and PLC, your allies for the summer

One of the main reasons why a Wi-Fi connection may not work well outdoors is distance. As most of our readers know, these types of connections have a limited range, and when we exceed that limit, it starts to fail until it reaches a point where we will no longer receive a signal.

There are many possible solutions, for example we could plug in and place an access point, but without a doubt the simplest, fastest and most cost and performance efficient would be place a Wi-Fi repeateror if this is not possible due to the distance from the router we could pull out the PLC

The first would be ideal for cases where the router signal reaches an area close to the garden or outdoor space we want to reach and we need to place a repeater in that area. PLC would be the best choice cases when the distance to the router is so great that we cannot get into the garden with it, because we need to place it very far from this area so that it can connect well with the router.

2.-Protect your network of friends from strangers

Security is always important, but when we’re talking about Wi-Fi networks and summer, it’s even more important. At this time of year, we live outside more and use outdoor wireless they remain in the background at other times of the year.

By extending the sign into the garden It is very likely that it will also end up on the street, and we hereby give opportunity to the alien’s friends to join him. To prevent this, it is important to follow a number of basic security guidelines to help keep our Wi-Fi protected.

Relax, there is no need to go into complicated configurations, because eventually you will not come across any expert who can crack a network with a strong password in a few minutes, which only happens in movies. Jokes aside, this is recommended change password to secure and? disable SSID, this means you will stop showing the network name publicly.

3.-Take care of visitors as they deserve

Summer is also one of the most social times of the year, and it’s normal to receive more visitors than the rest of the year. Sharing Wi-Fi with these visitors has become an important part of any good host’s hospitality, but this it can end up being a bit complicated if we have strengthened the security of our network by taking the previous steps.

Fortunately, it’s very easy for us to give up security and easily share our Wi-Fi connection. Enough with create a guest network, something that with FRITZ! We can do AVM in a very simple way and we will be able to control the resources available to said network and other settings of it at any time.

If you don’t know how to create a guest network, don’t worry, it is a very simple process which we then explained to you in this article. Just follow the given steps and that’s it. Do not forget that you can easily modify its parameters at any time from the router interface.

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