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Status Check: How is Your Home Wi-Fi Network Performing?

December 5th, 2008 (4:00pm) Samuel Dean 5 Comments

Have you taken a look at the speeds you’re getting with your home Wi-Fi network lately? Many web workers work out of their homes, and if that’s you and you work wirelessly, it makes a lot of sense to do a checkup. There are some free tools you can turn to for doing this easily and quickly. In this post, I’ll cover some of the best choices.

Wi-Fi is radio technology, and radio technology is weird in its behavior. Many users don’t experiment with the physical setup of their wireless equipment, which is a mistake.

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Keeping Tabs on Your Wi-Fi

September 24th, 2008 (4:00pm) Samuel Dean 10 Comments

If you find yourself using Wi-Fi more and more frequently, you’re not alone. As the numbers here show, business use of hotspots is growing very rapidly, and home Wi-Fi networks are key tools for many web workers. Do you monitor the Wi-Fi performance you’re getting, though?

If you tend to “set it and forget it,” it’s worth checking in on your actual Wi-Fi performance whether you’re in public or using your own network. Here are a couple of free tools that make this easy.

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