Techniques to improve the performance of your wireless network in your home or small business

What you'll learn
Determine the best location to place your home or small business wireless routers.
Change key settings on your wireless router than directly impacts performance.
Determine when to use a repeater to extend coverage.
Distinguish between connecting to the 2.4 or 5 GHz band.
Understand the technical details listed for your wireless router packaging

Requirements
The person taking this course should use Wi-Fi in their home or small business.
They should know what type of wireless router they have and its advertised features.
Ideally they should be able to access and look at the settings on their wireless router.

Description
Dr. Avril Salter is a world renowned author and consultant on implementing wireless networks. She created the saying, "The great thing about Wi-Fi is that you plug it in and it works, the bad thing about Wi-Fi is that you plug it in and it works badly."

In this course, Dr. Salter explains in understandable terms how you can improve the performance of your wireless network in your home or small business environment. This course provides a series of five short lectures that help you avoid the common mistakes people make when deploying Wi-Fi networks and shows you how to improve your wireless network performance.

Who this course is for
Anyone with a wireless network that is looking to improve its performance.
Focus is on home and small business Wi-Fi networks.
Anyone that is frustrated with the coverage and/or performance of their Wi-Fi network.
Someone that is new to Wi-Fi networks.