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==The fabric of the building==
The methods employed in the construction of your property '''will impact the usability of WiFi''', and not always in the ways one might expect. There are not general rules of thumb about the age of the property. It is impossible to simply say "older buildings are worse for wifi", for example.
Buildings with brick, concrete or stone walls usually have problems with wifi signal between rooms. That is to say, a laptop being used in one room, with the access point in another room, is likely to have a lower than ideal signal level. But, on the other hand, the attenuation of the outside walls helps reduce stray signals from neighbouring networks.
==No guarantees - but we'll always try our best to help you==
The service we sell is "Internet Access", and we work hard to ensure the performance of that service is the best it can be. But that is a service up to the broadband router. '''WiFi is down to the equipment you connect to your Internet service.'''
The routers we sell have WiFi to a specific standard for the power and signals used. Ultimately, we can never guarantee that a particular router with built-in WiFi will be able to cover a given property due to the numerous reasons given in the paragraphs above.
Our support staff can offer advice on multiple access point solutions - they can be quite expensive for the next WiFi.
Our director has a blog post on the matter of WiFi in an old Welsh school house: [https://www.revk.uk/2019/03/serious-wifi-case-study-house-in-wales.html Here].
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