What is the coverage area of a Wi-Fi network?

So, you’re wondering about Wi-Fi range, huh? It’s a total crapshoot, honestly. I mean, you’d think it’d be simple, right? Plug it in, boom, internet everywhere. But nope. Not even close.

It really depends on a whole bunch of stuff. Like, the frequency – I remember trying to get my old 2.4 GHz router to reach my back garden shed, forget about it! It was like shouting across a canyon. Then I switched to a 5 GHz router and it was a little better, but still not perfect. The power of the router itself makes a huge difference too. My friend, bless his heart, bought one of those cheapie routers and he’s lucky if he gets signal in his own bedroom, let alone the living room!

And the antenna? Don’t even get me started. I once spent a whole afternoon wrestling with a stubborn directional antenna, trying to get a decent signal in my attic office. It was a real pain, I tell you. Seriously, I felt like I was in some kind of tech-support battle scene from a movie.

Then there’s the environment. Walls, furniture, even those infernal metal filing cabinets — they all suck the signal right out. I swear, those cabinets are the enemy of my Wi-Fi. Remember that study I read? Something about how concrete walls can absolutely obliterate your signal? Yeah, I felt that one. My downstairs neighbor’s router is pretty powerful, but it never really reaches my apartment because of all the concrete. So yeah, inside a typical house? Maybe you get 50 meters, 160 feet if you’re lucky, with a decent 802.11n router. But that’s just a guesstimate – your mileage may seriously vary. It’s more like a best-case scenario, not a promise.

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