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How to improve your home Wi-Fi system in 5 minutes

• Wi-Fi is just radio waves and many things can cause interference, but a strong Wi-Fri signal can give you faster performance and better coverage distance, so it’s important to properly position and configure your router for optimal signal strength. I will show you how in just a few minutes. That’s all the time it takes.

Introduction

•Step 1: Point the Antenna Up

•Step 2: Position Your Router Properly.

• Step 3: Choose the Best Wi-Fi Channel

Training Outline

All you really must do is position your router well and choose the ideal Wi-Fi channel to optimize your network. Of course, buying a new router that supports modern, improved Wi-Fi standards may also offer you a signal strength and speed boost.

Step1: Point the antenna up

•Position your router

Step 2: Position your router

• It might take a little experimentation to find the best one, but you can get help choosing a Wi-Fi channel using the Wi-Fi Analyzer app for Android phones and tablets, which will monitor the Wi-Fi networks near you and recommend the least-cluttered Wi-Fi channel for your network. Unfortunately, similar apps aren’t available for iPhone or iPad due to the limitations Apple places on app developers.

Step 3: Choose the best Wi-Fi channels

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Things that are killing your phone battery

• We've all been there: we're stuck in a waiting room at the doctor's, a repair shop, or maybe even the DMV, so we whip out our phones and play Candy Crush or Clash of Clans to pass the time. Matching three pieces of candy and conquering our friends (and gloating afterwards), might be a short-term solution for boredom, but these apps place a heavy load on our batteries with their online connectivity and flashy graphics. If you want to conserve your phone's power, you're going to want to keep the gaming to a minimum.

Step 1: Games

Lesson 2: Smartphones

You'd be hard-pressed to find a lot of people who don't constantly glance at Facebook on their phones throughout the day. Social media is great for keeping in touch, seeing what your friends are doing, and getting annoying game requests from a distant relative. But keeping a vigilant eye over your Facebook app is a surefire way to get you down to 20 percent battery life by around noon.

Step 3: Screen brightness

Nowadays, there are phones with gigantic screens that provide great real estate for watching HD movies or playing console-quality games. Though it's important to see what you're doing, you might not be aware of the fact that keeping your screen's brightness all the way up is killing your battery. Unless you're trying to get a tan from all of that illumination, help conserve power and dimming the screen a bit. And quit using the screen as a flashlight. They have apps for that now.

• Bluetooth accessories are nifty gadgets that can help us be more productive during the day and provide a bit of a convenience as well. Whether you're syncing a wireless headset or a portable speaker, hooking up a device via Bluetooth is easy and quick. But if you're not going to be using it, you might as well disable Bluetooth. It might not be the worst when it comes to draining your power, but constantly having it enabled and not using it is just a waste.

Lesson 4: Enabling Bluetooth

Lesson 5: Wrap-upSome of us would literally be lost without our GPS or location-based services enabled. After all, it's almost a routine for people to check into places like restaurants, concert venues, and more on social media, and GPS helps us get there. But if you've got it on all of the time, you might not have enough battery power left to help you finish a trip. Thankfully, some map services, like Google Maps, allow you to download maps for offline use, which will help you conserve your data as well.

Life needs a soundtrack and we all turn to services like Pandora, Rhapsody, and more to help color our days with song. Unfortunately, one of the most popular of these services, Spotify, also happens to be one of the biggest battery killers. That 11-hour, post-break up playlist you made full of Dashboard Confessional, The Get Up Kids, and Jimmy Eat World? Yeah, it won't last three hours if you keep it going. Time to break up with your music app, at least for a little while.

Step 6: Snapchat

Summary

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