During the holiday season, there are more people in your house using your WiFi than throughout the rest of the year. You have kids home from college and relatives visiting, in addition to your regular household, and everyone wants to use your WiFi. If you need a way to boost your signal and eliminate dead spots, you might be considering getting a second WiFi router. But will this help solve your problem? Our team at Fios Pro is here to help you determine the best way to get the most out of your WiFi.
Should you get a second WiFi router? Let’s take a look at some of the pros and cons.
Pro: Support More Devices
With a second router, you can support more devices, both wired and wireless. Your second router will give you another set of ethernet cable ports, and you can plug more devices directly into the router. You get the fastest speeds from a wired connection, so adding more ports will give you more reliable connections.
A second router will also allow you to connect more devices wirelessly. If your primary router is pushed to its capacity, devices can lose signal, and it creates a drag on your connection. Adding a second router gives every device a share of a consistent signal.
Pro: Increase Internet Range
Adding a second router to your network will greatly increase your internet range. If you have a big house, devices that are far away from the router will have a very weak or no signal. A second router can also give you a signal in a converted garage or workshop that is too far from your router to receive a signal.
Con: Signal Interference
The primary disadvantage of using more than one router is that the signals can interfere with each other. All WiFi signals use the same frequency, so if they are too close to each other, the signals will cause interference, and neither device will perform at its best. Positioning the routers with enough distance between them will eliminate this problem, but if they are too far apart, you will have a dead zone in the middle. Switching between routers can also be a problem. Even if you are logged into both routers, you will lose your connection as your device switches from one to the other when it receives a stronger signal.
Get Better WiFi with Fios Pro
Whether you decide to get a second router or try to boost your signal with a WiFi extender, you can get the fastest internet speeds available with Fios Pro. Fiber optic internet offers the fastest upload and download speeds, so you can work and play online without worrying about buffering.
