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Three Simple Ways to Boost Your WiFi

Some days you wake up and say to yourself, "how can I be more like Buzzfeed ?"  Buzzfeed is popular and beloved and has an office across the street from a great Mexican restaurant.  I have a few friends and wonderful parents, but I can barely cook a taco.   What is it that I'm missing (besides venture money, a flock of ambitious MBAs and universal scorn from the intelligentsia)?  Lists!  That's what I'm missing.  Hit-trawling, crowd-pleasing lists! So here it is: the first in what hopefully will be a series of one.  A list of Three Simple Ways to Boost Your WiFi.  #LOL #cute #OMG #trashy 1) Add an 802.11n/ac USB adapter to old 802.11a/b/g laptops and desktops. Some folks in the WLAN business like to use the term "5G" to refer to 802.11ac, but I refer to 802.11a/b/g as 1st generation WiFi and 802.11n/ac as 2nd generation WiFi.  The reason I do that is because big improvements to power consumption, receive sensitivity and channel bonding are avail