Often routers look like a mysterious black box that connects to the internet, but it's easier to make some set-up adjustments on these products than we thought. A few days ago, the outside media, gizmodo, summarized five ways to set up a router to get wireless connections faster and unwelcome visitors out of the wireless network。
Of course, we don't mention much about the specific settings, and each router has its own customized page. However, we can enter the base address of the router on the browser into the settings interface and then find the change options mentioned below。
Change of channel
There is no doubt that, compared to the past, there has been considerable progress in the current router products, which can be modified so that routers can avoid disruption or obstruction caused by other equipment. Therefore, while a channel can be set to automatic selection, we can choose to make manual settings and adjust specific details to improve speed and stability of access to the network。
We can use free tools such as acrylic wi-fi (windows system) or netgear wi-fi analytics (android system) to see which channel is the busiest and then switch the router to a better conditioned channel。
2. Equipment priorities
At present, some high-end router products provide priority services to certain applications or devices and provide them with better bandwidth. If you're playing online games or playing high-resolution videos, this priority service will make you feel very different。
This technology is usually called qos or wmm, and different routers need to be set in different ways, and all we can do is prioritize our equipment according to demand。
3. Switch to maximum speed
If you look at the technical specifications of routers, you can see that they are basically wireless, 802. 11a and 802. 11ac, which represent the oldest and the latest standards, respectively. In such cases, we can choose to focus the routers on providing the fastest possible speed and forget the old equipment。
Hide your ssid
In general, routers are the default broadcast of their own ssid (service set identifier) so that new equipment can easily be added to it. If we could hide the sid, we wouldn't be scanned by nearby devices. This means that we need to enter sid manually to join the network, and we can significantly reduce the possibility of our own wireless network being sprawled。
5. Upgrading solids
Just as iphone will upgrade from ios 8 to ios 9, router manufacturers will release new solids (including gap repair and safety patches) to improve router stability and compatibility with new equipment. We should therefore see from time to time whether routers can upgrade new solids。
Often, the upgrade of the router solids is more difficult than that of smartphones, but the upgrade of the solids can be successfully completed if we refer to the router instructions。
