WWiFiXpert

Home & Mesh Adviser · September 2026

Design better Wi-Fi for your home

Tell us about your home in plain words. We'll give you three options — something free to try today, something you can fit yourself, and the very best you could do. The free one always comes first.

1

Your home

A guess is fine. A typical three-bedroom semi is about 90–110.

Count a loft room or a basement as a floor.

2

Where the router is, and which rooms matter

Which rooms really matter to you?

Where does it let you down?

Do you need Wi-Fi outside?

3

What the building is made of

Tick anything you know about. Walls vary hugely from house to house, so we rank materials as easier or harder rather than pretending every brick wall costs the same amount of signal.

What's between the router and the room that struggles?

Can I upload a floor plan instead?

Yes — the heatmap tool takes a floor-plan picture, including one copied from an estate-agent listing, and lets you walk round marking the signal in each room. Bring the results back here.

Open the floor-plan tool
4

Cables and what you already have

5

Any speeds you've measured (optional)

Not essential — but one test next to the router and one in the worst room tells us more than everything else put together.

Run a speed test
6

Your floorplan (optional)

Got a floorplan picture — from your estate agent listing, a survey, or just a photo of one? Add it, tap where the router is, then tap the spots where the Wi-Fi lets you down. The picture stays on your own device; we only use where you tapped.

How this advice is worked out

We combine four things: how much floor area one Wi-Fi point can realistically hold, how many floors it has to climb, how hard the materials you ticked are for radio to pass through, and the rooms you've told us already fail. Measured speeds, where you give them, override the guesswork.

We deliberately don't publish a fixed signal loss for each wall type. Two brick walls in two different houses behave very differently, and any table claiming otherwise is guessing. What is well established is the ranking: plasterboard and timber are easy, brick is harder, stone, concrete and foil-backed insulation are hardest — and dense buildings need more Wi-Fi points rather than one stronger router.