A complete guide to worry-free WiFi coverage during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday

The Dragon Boat Festival holiday has begun. During this period, netizens who want to upgrade their Wi-Fi routers can use the three days to prepare for the 618 promotion. So how do you choose a Wi-Fi router that suits you? Let's learn about some key points below.

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1. Choose according to room type

Don't underestimate this condition. Many netizens often mistakenly think that just buying a wireless router can meet the signal needs of the home. But in fact, the router bought in this way often cannot meet the needs of full house coverage.

For example, for a one-bedroom user, the number of load-bearing walls in the room is limited, and there are not many obstacles that block the transmission of Wi-Fi signals. In this case, you can just buy a mainstream 802.11AC wireless router. There are many such routers on the market, which are often equipped with 2 external antennas, support 2*2 MIMO architecture, and dual-band concurrent wireless rates up to 1200Mbps.

For users with more than two bedrooms, they need to make a preliminary assessment based on the specific room type. For example, if the layout is relatively balanced, at least buy a mainstream AC1200-level router product, while for rooms with many walls and irregular structures, choose a mid-range wireless router of 300-400 yuan.

For a complex three-bedroom apartment, duplex or even villa, the signal coverage of a single wireless router is definitely not ideal. At this time, it is time to choose a mesh router set or a distributed router.

2. Purchase based on bandwidth

In addition, some netizens are not clear about whether their home network bandwidth is 50MB, 100MB or 200MB, which makes them confused when purchasing a wireless router.

Generally speaking, a router equipped with a Gigabit wired network port can provide a download speed of up to 1000/8=125MB/s through a network speed of up to 1000Mbps. A 100M network port can provide a download speed of up to 100/8=12.5MB/s through a network speed of up to 100Mbps.

Obviously, for netizens who use bandwidth above 100MB, they should at least choose mainstream router products with Gigabit Ethernet ports. Otherwise, bottleneck problems will occur during wired transmission, leaving broadband resources idle.

3. Purchase according to needs

For those who are not short of money, replacing a wireless router is not a big deal, so they often focus on whether the router's parameters are top-notch and whether the appearance design shows personality. However, for most netizens who value cost-effectiveness, they have to choose according to their actual networking needs.

For example, if you want to enhance signal coverage, you should choose a mesh router or add a wireless repeater; if you want a faster transmission rate, you can choose a mainstream Wi-Fi 5 router with a gigabit port or a new Wi-Fi 6 router; if you have requirements for device load, you can't avoid mid-to-high-end routers, because low-end products generally have low load capacity, and if there are too many terminals connected to them, they will cause competition and cause disconnection. In addition, whether intelligent management is needed, such as parental control, Wi-Fi timer switch, etc.

I believe that through this introduction, netizens should have a preliminary understanding of the selection of home routers. For mainstream users, choosing dual-band Wi-Fi 5 products has become a must. At least the new generation of routers are relatively more complete from CPU configuration to firmware updates. For friends who have other more functional requirements, they still need to do more homework when buying a router.