5 Tips for Pain-Free Wireless Home Networking

Hair-pullingly bad experiences with wireless networking have led me to formulate Snyder’s First Law of Home Networking: No matter who sells you the router, you’ll have at least one excruciating session with tech support before you have an Internet connection.

Well, I’m surprised and happy to say that I’ve finally found an exception: Cisco’s new Valet home router, billed as “home wireless made easy” actually works as advertised. Be still my beating heart. (More about the Valet later.)

Like the popular new restaurant that suddenly can’t turn out a decent meal, home networking is a victim of its own success. The more devices we add to our networks, and the more demanding applications we want to run across them, the tougher it is to have a good experience.

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Movies and videos are certainly the worst offenders in this regard, but streaming music can slow down your network, or cause connections to drop so frequently you want to toss the device out the window.

Here are five tips that will help take the pain out of wireless networking.

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