Unsucking Wi-Fi - a quick and dirty guide for the neophyte wireless engineer

Recently, some of my colleagues have been coming to me for advice with wireless. There is a TON of information you need to know to get good at wireless networking, but there are also some quick tips that can get you quite far, quite fast. 

The intended audience is a technical person who's somewhat unfamiliar with wireless, or seeks to quickly learn a bit more. If you want an even more basic primer, check my previous article. 

This article doesn't particularly cover external Pt(M)P networking that may be used to cross a campus or run a WISP - it's focused on wireless supplying end clients (i.e. "traditional" in-building wireless coverage). 

It is not going to be the be all and end all of wireless (it's not several thousand pages long, for a start), and some things are context-specific, and guidelines are sometimes best broken, once you understand more; realise this is, at best, a primer to going off and doing (a lot) more reading (and careful experimentation!).

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Tune your home network for Work-from-Home / Quarantine / Isolation - "Un-Suck your Wi-Fi"!

I can't authoritatively comment on COVID-19, despite a lot of years in the biological sciences, even some microbiology and a long term, vague (perhaps somewhat morbid) interest in emerging pathogens.

I certainly CAN suggest how you can tune up your home network to ensure it's going to be the best it can be to cope with you, your partner, flatmates, relatives and children (or whatever your domestic arrangement might be!) stuck at home and depending on the Internet as a life-line.

More and more countries seem to be enacting (entirely justifiable) stringent isolation measures for many weeks at a time, so I trust this information will be of some small help during this difficult time.