Discover the Benefits of Extending Your Wi-Fi Coverage

As the growing trend to extend indoor spaces into outdoor environments continues, homeowners look to enhance backyard entertainment, creating spaces that mimic the depth and dimension of their indoor audio and video. 

Bluetooth speakers give way to satellite speakers strategically placed throughout the landscape. Outdoor 4K UHD TVs appear by pools and on patios, creating a space for movie nights under the stars and the big game on the weekends. Outdoor lighting, shades, and fire pits create spaces that are enjoyed nearly year-round. 

But something’s missing.

To really thrive in the great outdoors, all your devices require connectivity. In your home, Wi-Fi plays an essential role in ensuring a connected home that works as you want it to, when you want it to. When you start to extend your living spaces, it’s important to take your Wi-Fi with you. 

That’s where outdoor Wi-Fi comes in. 

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Why Indoor Wi-Fi Isn’t Enough

Many homeowners wonder why their indoor Wi-Fi doesn’t cover their outdoor areas. There are many reasons.

Wi-Fi uses radio waves to send information from your router to your connected devices. Today’s luxury homes and older buildings are often made of materials that impede the signal and cause interference. Stucco, concrete, brick, metal, and even thick glass impact Wi-Fi signal strength.

The other element to consider is your bandwidth. As more devices connect to your home network, the bandwidth highway gets congested. Soon, data packets are slamming on their brakes, and you begin experiencing frustrating online experiences, from dropped connections to interrupted streaming and frozen video calls.

You’re asking too much of your Wi-Fi as you extend your living spaces to the great outdoors. Fortunately, there is a solution.  

The Importance of Outdoor Wi-Fi

In today’s digital world, Wi-Fi corresponds with ease of living and enhanced enjoyment. Nothing is more enjoyable than relaxing in your outdoor oasis, listening to your favorite musicians in breathtaking clarity. Outdoor audio makes every activity, from barbecues with friends to al fresco dining with the family, that much better.

So, how do you make sure you have the bandwidth to enjoy your outdoor audio system without putting too much strain on your home network?  

The answer lies in a dedicated wireless access point. 

The good news is that your outdoor area has few materials that will impede the signal. This means that, in most cases, one access point will do the trick. 

Today’s advanced outdoor access points, such as those developed by Araknis, offer BeamFlex technologies that direct the Wi-Fi signal to the most demanding connected devices. SmartMesh technology helps signals navigate around objects that cause signal interference.

The Latest Wi-Fi Standards 

In some instances, particularly smart homes with numerous connected devices, upgrading your system to support the latest Wi-Fi standards, such as Wi-Fi 6e, is extremely helpful. These Wi-Fi standards were developed with smart homes in mind. 

They reduce congestion by doubling the bandwidth, enabling more simultaneous connected devices. They also offer speeds up to three times faster than Wi-Fi 5. This translates to better performance, faster downloads, and smoother streaming. 

Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6e outdoor access points are purpose-built for outdoor living and offer seamless coverage from corner to corner of your property. It dramatically increases capacity and speed while reducing interference.

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