Wireless connections, or Wi-Fi, can have many advantages: they avoid having to wire the house, they allow us to move without losing the connection and connect all kinds of devices at the same time without problems. However, when we are connected to one of these networks, we can also experience problems such as cuts, signal losses, and very low speed. And, although these problems can be due to a multitude of reasons, we are going to help you mitigate them with just 3 configuration changes.
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network in Windows is a matter of seconds. Just click the network icon next to the clock, select our network, enter the password, and you’re done. However, within the advanced configuration options of the driver we can find a series of hidden options that can help us make the connection much faster and more stable. Let’s see them.
Enter the advanced Wi-Fi options in Windows
In order to access the options that we are going to see next, the first thing we will do is enter the device manager . We can do this in several ways, but the fastest way is to use the Windows + X menu to open this section from there.
Once inside, what we will do is locate the Wi-Fi card of our computer, which will be in the “Network adapters” section. And, by clicking with the right button, we will open the “Properties” section to enter the “Advanced Options”.
Once here, we can start to continue the device.
Roaming aggressiveness
This is the first option that we are going to see how to configure. This parameter allows us to choose the sensitivity with which the computer will switch between access points. If we have several networks saved, Windows will take more or less time to connect to a different network when it is within range and it has a better signal than the main network.
If we have a desktop PC, which we are not going to move, we will set this to ” 1 – Minimum “, so as not to have problems. But if we move a lot around the house, or around the office, and we always want to have the best connection, then we will have to set it to “5 – Maximum”.
Potency of transmission
As its name indicates, this option allows us to configure the power of the network card with which it will capture the signal. The higher it is, the better signal we will get when connecting, but, obviously, it will spend more energy and much more battery.
Our recommendation is to always have it at ” 5 – Maximum “, unless we have serious battery problems, in which case we can reduce it, with the problems that this may entail.
Preferred band for Wi-Fi
When we connect to Wi-Fi we can do it through two networks: either we have the 2.4 GHz network, the classic one, with greater coverage, but more interference and lower speed, or the 5 GHz network, much faster, uncongested , but with less signal coverage.
From this option we can tell Windows which network we want to use. In this way, if we are close to the router we can always indicate that we want it to connect by default to the 5 GHz network to have more speed, but if we are far away we can force it to use the 2.4 GHz band to have more signal, although go slower.