Mid Century Fiber

  The amount of time we spend connected to the internet has drastically changed in the last year.   We are doing a lot more online activity.   We are working from home, eLearning, gaming, streaming TV, video chatting, and more!     To make sure you have the right internet speed you need to figure out how many devices that you may have connected to the internet at any one time and how much bandwidth those devices use.   For example, checking your email can take up to 5Mbps where streaming video can take up to 15Mbps or more depending on if you are watching sports and 4K TV.    Large file transfers can take up to 40Mpbs.      So, if someone is eLearning and transferring a large file for their homework and at the same time someone is streaming TV and another family member is gaming you could be using more bandwidth than the plan that you signed up for.   What does this mean? You will experience buffering or slowdow...

There is nothing more annoying than the constant stopping and starting of a show or movie. We have all seen it before, a screen that reads "loading" or perhaps the iconic spinning loading wheel. Buffering happens for a slew of reasons; weak Wi-Fi signal can be the root of this modern-day nightmare. So how does one make sure that they have a good signal throughout their home, so they do not run into any of these issues? First, you will need to understand why you may not be getting a signal or as good of signal to a particular location in your house. Your wireless router sends a signal out throughout the home, this is your Wi-Fi. This signal allows you to connect devices via Wi-Fi so that you do not have to have hard wires running to all your devices to be able to access the internet. You can think of this signal the way you would a speaker. The further away you get from the speaker, the softer the sound is, and the closer you get to that speaker, the stronger the sound wil...