By akademiotoelektronik, 03/02/2022

What are the advantages of Smart WiFi?

In 1997, so the last century, WiFi, a set of standards for wireless networks, made its very first appearance. At the time, its theoretical speed was 2 Mbits/s. Since then, WiFi has moved up a gear, improving over the years and innovations. It has been regularly updated, until recently with WiFi 6, available from the SFR Box 8, benefiting from a tenfold speed, which can go up to 10 Gbits/s. And it is precisely to accompany this very comfortable speed that Smart WiFi is now coming to your home.

Discover WiFi 6 and Smart WiFi with the SFR Box 8

Very practical, WiFi allows you to connect several devices to the same Internet box without needing an ethernet cable to connect them to it. This is called the wireless connection, which has been democratized for a good fifteen years now. It is used everywhere, at home and at work, in stations, airports, parks and even bars or hotels. To such an extent that one of the first questions we now ask when arriving somewhere, just after

"How are you ?"

, is simply

"What's the WiFi code?"

However, WiFi can encounter some problems: its signal can be more complicated to pick up in certain rooms, especially in large homes, or be reduced if too many devices are connected at the same time (and therefore use the same bandwidth). Fortunately, now there is Smart WiFi.

Optimized Wi-Fi

As its name suggests, Smart WiFi is intelligent, in the sense that it will allow a connected device (smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc.) to search for the frequency band best suited to its current needs. It can automatically switch between 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, and alternate between them to ensure stable and continuous throughput. All without the user having to do anything manually, even if he moves from one room to another, and again to another.

Better coverage

A good blanket isn't just for cold winter nights. It is also essential to be able to benefit from WiFi in all the rooms of a residence. Naturally, the WiFi signal becomes weaker as one moves away from the box from which it is emitted. If in a 17m2 studio, there is normally no problem, things can get complicated when you live in a mansion. Or in a large house, with one or more floors, more simply. To optimize WiFi coverage, you must equip your home with one or more WiFi repeaters, which, as their name suggests, will "repeat" the transmitted signal, i.e. capture it, then broadcast it at equivalent power in the area around him. WiFi repeaters have recently been released to accompany the SFR Box 8, which is precisely compatible with Smart WiFi. With such an installation, the connection is guaranteed to be stable, without breaking when moving from one room to another.