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Got a big home – say, over 1,500 square feet? Then you probably have two problems when it comes to Wi-Fi reception. First, with distance and obstacles such as walls and floors come dead zones where Wi-Fi signals are severely degraded. This particular author has a 2,650 square foot two-story in the Oregon suburbs, and with an older 3x3 802.11n router in the upstairs corner office. This means a 2.4GHz signal will barely survive its trip to the kitchen in the opposite downstairs corner, and a 5.0 GHz signal won’t reach at all. And anything from a 2x2 router? Ha! That's rich.
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Got a big home – say, over 1,500 square feet? Then you probably have two problems when it comes to Wi-Fi reception. First, with distance and obstacles such as walls and floors come dead zones where Wi-Fi signals are severely degraded. This particular author has a 2,650 square foot two-story in the Oregon suburbs, and with an older 3x3 802.11n router in the upstairs corner office. This means a 2.4GHz signal will barely survive its trip to the kitchen in the opposite downstairs corner, and a 5.0 GHz signal won’t reach at all. And anything from a 2x2 router? Ha! That's rich.
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