Summary

When your wireless coverage is intermittent and causing issues with connecting, there are a number of steps you can take to remedy the problem and improve coverage throughout your house. When the remedies do not work, it may be time to take more serious measures, such as upgrading your network to an 802.11n wireless system.

If the remedies here improve your wireless coverage and you now have good performance, enjoy your wireless network and start surfing from poolside.

If you improve the coverage so that you now have pretty good signal strength in all rooms but still have issues with slow or intermittent connection problems, read the next chapter.

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