Want faster wifi? Here are 5 weirdly easy tips. 

You know your wifi sucks when your trying to watch a video on how to make your wifi faster and you cant cuz your wifi sucks

very informative. I'll leave a note on my neighbor's door.

1:03 No it’s okay I think the hostage wants to use my wifi

Me : opens the comments so I can see people's reviews People : i broke down the walls and attached my router to the fan so it flings signals faster

I do not think my neighbor will approve of me moving around his router.

Tape your router on your head. That way you always get the best signal.

Hold up...y’all have a choice on where to place your router? My router has one single option, where the cable is

Me: mom we need to put wifi way from electronics Mom: why? Me: because it will make the wifi better Mom: *how about you stop using wifi*

That moment when I realize my Router is on the floor, under the TV, and behind a bunch of walls relative to where I need it most... #feelingstupid.

Place it in the center of your house. Try not to trip on the cords.

1:21 Jokes on you. My router has only 1 antenna

Vox: Don't put your router near other electronics Mr.Beast: Today we're going to microwave a router and see what happens

My router doesn't even have a single antenna...

Ok, my english not very good. I place my router in closet floor under microwave oven both antennas parallel, yes?

Unknown fact: when bluetooth headphones are on, it actually drastically lowers your wifi. Bcs both wifi and bluetooth hertz are roughly same. At home, just use a normal headphone

My brother does something better... he kept the router in his freaking room... so, full signal only for him... PS: and he's not even pay the bill... 🙃

lol, dont place routers around other electronic devices aah impossible

And the stupid video won't load. Thanks you damn wifi

Why do I keep getting told “where to place my router” as if I have some sort of choice in the matter? Where should I place my router? By the port that has the connection. Next: where to place your toilet!

No one: Globe&Pldt: Dont let them see this rn

I failed every single one of these.

Wrongly titled. The subject cover is Wifi signal strength not Wifi speed.

This is how to get a better connection, Not how to get "faster" wifi

This is great. One problem not mentioned, you're limited where you can put the router depending where the telephone or cable point is that's coming in from outside.

why does the narrator sound like he's ASKING QUESTIONS? He's supposed to be telling us what to do.

my router is on fire in the fridge. what's the next step?

RU-vid really recommending this after ps5s router box got released

Imagine having good wifi, smh - This post was made by 500ping and 100kB/s download speed gang

I'm a wireless network engineer. Antennas pointing opposite directions is an easy red flag for "someone doesn't know what they are doing". It causes "hidden node" connection problems, as well as also impairing a lot of the MIMO and multipath-based algorithms. The only place having antennas pointing in different directions helps is on the client device, if you do that to the router (access point) you are just making things worse (and more unpredictable).

This video is better than that buzzfeed video. Thank you Vox.

me looking at my wifi router on the floor in a corner next to my tv: *hoo boy*

Best 2 minutes of my time - loved how straight to the point this is! Many thanks.

my router is literally attached to the back of my tv with 3m adhesive

Orienting router antennas perpendicularly, will disable the MIMO capabilities of your router. While it is true that matching polarity between antennas (vertical or horizontal) works best when you have direct line of sight (LoS) between devices, as soon as you put walls and other objects between them, the signals starts reflecting, and taking different paths to reach your device. MIMO is built into all Wifi routers with multiple antennas (as well as 3G/4G/LTE), and it allows the router to increase total bandwidth by sending different signals through each antenna following the reflected paths to your device. For MIMO to work properly all the router antennas need to be parallel. Similarly, modern high end routers include something called beam steering which is where the same signal is sent from multiple (usually 3 or more) antennas as once slightly out of phase such that all the signals reinforce each other in one specific direction and cancel each other in ever other direction. A high end router can literally target up to 4 individual devices this way. This greatly increases the signal strength when talking to devices in far corners of the house and increases bandwidth everywhere. Again, this only works when all router antennas are parallel to each other. When the antennas are perpendicular to each other, the signal from one will be 20-30dB weaker than the other so they cannot work together.

You saved my life M8 I can thank you one day with no stop you are a hero litteraly!

Simple short and informative Just what we needed

You sure need these tips when you have a TP-Link router.

I think you forgot to mention to manually adjust the WiFi band on which your devices connect with your router. Especially in cities and dense neighborhoods WiFi networks interfere with each other. There are a lot of apps analysing the WiFi bands surrounding you and changing your own one can in some cases dramatically improve signal strength and data speed.

thank you for these tips now i can download and update stuff a lot faster, its like i have a gb download speed

My router is on the ceiling of the toilet...just in the middle of the house

Vox narrator: dou you even vocalize, bro?

I think that the part they says to put one antenna horizontally is a mistake. The signal goes and form like a 3D ring around the antenna, doing that it will transmit basically to the upper and below floor/level. the best is to put the antennas slightly inclined, so if your router has MIMO, this will improve the signal around the coverage area.

Antenna of access points / home routers should always be facing in the same orientation as they depend on each other for situations such as multi-path & MIMO.

Love the way you talk! Kind of calming and pleasant to hear.

And number 6, the most important one for people living in blocks of flats: Change your broadcasting channel to a less busy one. This means run a quick scan to see which broadcasts you can see, check what channel they're broadcasting in, pick a different channel than the most common one. Channels still interfere with +-5 around them, so Channel 1 is only completely separate from Channel 6 and up, etc.

Me, with a cylinder router: 👁️👄👁️

Video gets straight to content. Amazing.

Had that tplink router used in this vid forever. Just upgraded and so much better

I was having loud conversations about wanting better wifi near my phone and now this is finally being recommended. Thank god. Sometimes the spying is helpful.

01:23 yeah but OCD, man, OCD doesn't allow me to.

i got that cloudcheck app and it's freaking great (free, no 'in-app purchases' just works) you can turn a BEEP on while doing the Wifi Sweetspots function, leave your phone somewhere in the house really loud, and go futs with the router antennas, it DOES make a difference!!! wow, I ended up putting my router on the wall, with one antenna angled sideways, one 45 degrees and the other straight up; about 5 feet off the ground, moved towards the center of the closet. it made a HUGE difference. e.g. in my master bathroom it went down to 3mbps from our usual 300+mbps cable internet; after moving the router it now averages 190mpbs. I had given up on using wifi in that bathroom because it'd keep cutting out. THANK YOU!!!

the antenna trick you mentioned worked well.

who else has slow wifi during quarantine

Also don't use a channel that other people nearby are using because the waves can cancel each other out and force retransmissions. This is a big problem for enterprise Wi-Fi deployments in multi-tenant buildings. I should know, I've deployed Wi-Fi for enterprises; I'm a network engineer.

Informative, to the point and well produced. Kudos!

Also change your router frequency especially if you live in a crowded place with many other people who use wifi. Most of them use the same frequency, but if you change yours, your connection will be much better

why is this guy asking a question in every sentence?

Tried all of his advise, ended up paying 150$ for tech request appointment.

Really useful especially during the Zoom Lessons Session

The different pointing antenna tip was nice thanks

As a wifi specialists i can tell this is accurate

The title should be: "Want stronger WiFi signal?"

that vertical/horizontal setup is new to me, thx..!

Outstanding, and yet such a simple video.

I mean, my Wi-Fi is already fast even though it's near a TV...

I have a 1000 Mbps plan and run wireless internet and get around 20 Mbps. My router says it supports 1600 Mbps, so what do I do to optimize the speed? Thanks!

For some reason, like when I am using tv's antenna, It's gonna make more clearly when I bend the other stem of the antenna..

Is no one gonna talk about eminem narrating this?

I use a Tinfoil to steal my neighbours wifi 😂

So, if a door gonna absorb some of the connection... Will the door send Google the anatomy of a door itself?

PLEASE SOMEONE HELP: So it says in the video that anything with a motor will affect your speed i have a printer and a computer by my router but they are always off do they still effect it even when they are both off?

I always get the antennae back to its original vertical position every time my cat leaves a disoriented direction of the antennae after sleeping on top of the router. So this means my cat has been right all along. Got it.

Great, I'm doing exactly the opposite of each step.

Just get a router that kicks your neighbor’s WiFi off aggressively

Very useful information, I liked it a lot.

Great tips on router placement!

Thanks for the informative video.

Hello. What's the name of the app' of wifi signal measuring are you using ? Thanks

Thanks i found this very helpful

gonna be trying this when the new network cable turns up so we can see if this will help , been sorting network issues for months

robber: hey kid want candy! kid: nah Robber: I have wifi in my car kid: SURE!!!!

Oh my hod thankyou my download is 60 minutesinstead of 1 hour❤️

I LOVE THIS DUDE, HE TALKS SO FAST

I just got some info! Thank you guys I love ya

Is this being recommended to me again now because of the ps5?? 😂😂

Thanks for the tips lumpy princess :)

Amazing Video! Short and simple

Bro it worked i just had to put mine on the floor and the resolution on my tv changed thanks man

Want faster Wifi- 8M people: did you call my name?

dont forget to delete system32

I live in a 3 story house mine is on the 3rd story in my room but next to my tv and playstation is that good what should i do?

Great video. Well I always knew line of site was the best rule of thumb

microwaves are the worst for wifi

Can someone explain to me why when I'm using my wifi on phone, it's kinda fast but when I use it on my pc, it's freaking slow...

Our provider set a new fiber optics router for us about two years ago and, for some reason, they mounted it to the wall underneath the staircase, right next to the fuse box. Now, the internet is faster in the halls and living room, but it cuts off at weird points inside each bedroom; like connection is practically nonexistent at the right side of my bed and almost perfect at the left side of it.

just broke into my neighbor's house to bend the router antenna ....working like a charm now!

I m also using same router which is tp link wr841nd

hi, my voice goes up? at the end of every sentence? like i'm asking a question? but i'm really not?

veeeerryy thought full..Thanks

Great Video. Thank you