{"id":39,"date":"2012-03-23T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T14:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.netspotapp.com\/help\/?p=39"},"modified":"2022-08-19T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T19:00:35","slug":"why-am-i-not-getting-perfect-wi-fi-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/why-am-i-not-getting-perfect-wi-fi-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ: Why am I not getting PERFECT Wi-Fi coverage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mid-range signal level (shown in green on the heatmap when the default minimum and maximum levels are used) is actually considered good. Usually, routers and Wi-Fi transmitters are configured for a medium-strength signal, not an overly strong one. Reasons for this include security (to limit the area where people can potentially connect to your network) and noise prevention (so that you are not creating a lot of interference for your neighbors).<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"media post-download\">\r\n<div class=\"media-left media-middle\"><i class=\"box-40x40 icons icon-mac-xs  \"><\/i><\/div> <div class=\"media-body media-middle\">NetSpot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/netspotpro.html\">WiFi site survey tool for macOS<\/a> is available<\/div>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\nYou may also want to try removing any sleeve or case from your MacBook, to see if that makes a difference (some may interfere with your Airport adaptor\u2019s antenna).<\/p>\n<div class=\"media post-download\">\r\n<div class=\"media-left media-middle\"><i class=\"box-40x40 icons icon-win-xs  \"><\/i><\/div> <div class=\"media-body media-middle\">NetSpot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/netspot-windows.html\">WiFi scanner for Windows<\/a> can be found here<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:0px; padding-top:0px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"google\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"netspotapp\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"FAQ%3A%20Why%20am%20I%20not%20getting%20PERFECT%20Wi-Fi%20coverage%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mid-range signal level (shown in green on the heatmap when the default minimum and maximum levels are used) is actually considered good. Usually, routers and Wi-Fi transmitters are configured for a medium-strength signal, not an overly strong one. Reasons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[36,38,37],"class_list":{"0":"post-39","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-troubleshooting","7":"tag-coverage","8":"tag-quality","9":"tag-signal"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}