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High, central, not in a cupboard

High, central, not in a cupboard — step 1 of 6 in Home Wi-Fi That Reaches the Bedroom. Radios like air and height. A closet, a TV cabinet, and the floor behind the TV are how you invent dead zones.

Out in the open. Not a decorative box that is also a Faraday cage.
Out in the open. Not a decorative box that is also a Faraday cage.

Free tech & internet tip: High, central, not in a cupboard (step 1 of 6 from "Home Wi-Fi That Reaches the Bedroom").

Radios like air and height. A closet, a TV cabinet, and the floor behind the TV are how you invent dead zones. If the fiber jack is in a corner, that is a constraint — plan mesh from there, do not pretend the laws changed.

2.4 GHz goes further and hates microwaves. 5 GHz is faster and dies through two walls. Modern routers band-steer. Let them. One name for both bands unless you have a weird IoT brick that only speaks 2.4 — then a second SSID just for that brick.

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