COVID-19: Our Advice To Optimize Your Internet Connection

At this particular time, many of you are confined to your homes. Your children are at home and take online classes, some of you telecommute and others consume reports, films or series offered by VOD or streaming platforms. All of these uses create exceptional data consumption that can lead to significant slowdowns in your household's Internet access.

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Here are some tips to optimize your internet connection and your Wi-Fi during a lockdown period.

In a general way :

• Connect to Ethernet: an RJ45 type network cable between your box and your computer will always be more efficient than your Wi-Fi network.
• Download at night, when there are fewer Internet users.
• Limit the number of devices connected at the same time.
• Control the applications that use the bandwidth: online games, streaming, downloading… the bandwidth is shared between all the services used and these slow down the connection. So you will prioritize your needs: when you work or use videoconferencing, cut out other very consuming uses that are in progress in your home.
• If you are using a secure VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection to access files on your corporate network, we recommend that you copy and save them locally to your computer's hard drive and then disconnect from the VPN. This prevents you from working on these files remotely, which would require a constant link with your company and unnecessarily burden your Internet connection.
• If possible, work off hours from other household members.
• Choose the 5 Ghz network to have the best possible Wi-Fi speed near the box.
• Choose the 2.4 Ghz network to have the best possible speed if you have to be far from the box.
• Sit near the box if you need to use Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi performance decreases with distance.
• Do not place electronic equipment near the box: sound bar, speakers, telephones, etc. can reduce the range and speed of the Wi-Fi signal. And above all, do not put anything on the box or on the TV decoder.
• If you have a Wi-Fi repeater: this small device allows you to extend the coverage of your network in rooms that would not be covered by the signal.
• If you have Powerline sockets, they extend the network and broadcast the Wi-Fi connection from your electrical outlets.
• Connect your TV decoder to your roof aerial in order to reserve your internet connection for equipment connected via Wi-Fi when you watch a DTT channel and its stream can pass through the aerial rather than the internet.
• Remember to turn off your TV decoder when you are not using it.
  
  

Telecommuting :

• If you are using a secure VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection to access files on your corporate network, we recommend that you copy and save them locally to your computer's hard drive and then disconnect from the VPN. This prevents you from working on these files remotely, which would require a constant link with your company and unnecessarily burden your Internet connection.
• If possible, work off hours from other household members.

Wi-Fi:

• Choose the 5 Ghz network to have the best possible Wi-Fi speed near the box.
• Choose the 2.4 Ghz network to have the best possible speed if you have to be far from the box.
• Sit near the box if you need to use Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi performance decreases with distance.
• Do not place electronic equipment near the box: sound bar, speakers, telephones, etc. can reduce the range and speed of the Wi-Fi signal. And above all, do not put anything on the box or on the TV decoder.
• If you have a Wi-Fi repeater: this small device allows you to extend the coverage of your network in rooms that would not be covered by the signal.
• If you have Powerline sockets, they extend the network and broadcast the Wi-Fi connection from your electrical outlets.
  
  

TV:

• Connect your TV decoder to your roof aerial in order to reserve your internet connection for equipment connected via Wi-Fi when you watch a DTT channel and its stream can pass through the aerial rather than the internet.
• Remember to turn off your TV decoder when you are not using it.

Conclusion:

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