Before you do, read this.
What Is Transmit Power?
The transmit power of your Wi-Fi router is like a volume knob on a stereo.
How the transmit power is displayed and adjusted varies between manufacturers.
The adjustment options also vary.
Some have a simple low, medium, and high option.
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Turning up the transmit power on your router would seem to be a pretty handy trick, no?
More power doesn’t automatically mean you get better coverage or speed.
Your Router Is Powerful; Your Devices Are Not
Wi-Fi is a bidirectional system.
It’s sending out a signal and expecting one back.
Your phone can “hear” the tower, but it struggles to talk back.
There are much better ways to address your Wi-Fi problems, which we’ll discuss in the next section.
To use the volume example again, let’s say you wanted to pipe music throughout your entire home.
But you’d quickly find the sound was distorted and the listening experience wasn’t uniform.
The system just automatically balances itself in the background.
Consider moving your routerand check that toavoid these common Wi-Fi blocking materialswhen you reposition it.
