London: A new app that lets you map the Wi-Fi signal around your house can help you work out the best place to put your router.
Jason
Cole, a Physics PhD student from Imperial College London in the UK, was
concerned with optimising the Wi-Fi reception in his flat, so he
decided to tackle the issue with mathematical precision.
Cole
began the process by mapping his apartment floorplan, assigning
refraction values to the walls, and then applying Helmholtz equations to
model the electromagnetic waves the router emits.
Cole found
that the best position for an optimised Wi-Fi signal through the rest of
the house is the center of the home, according to 'The Daily Dot'.
He
further modified his model to account for the absorption in wall
materials such as concrete and stopped perfect reflections from forming
standing waves, resulting in an outcome that more precisely mirrors
Wi-Fi signals.
He concluded that the further away from your router you are the more you'll have to jockey for tendrils of signal.
Cole has compiled his math into an app that allows users to map their Wi-Fi signals as he has done for his own apartment.
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