Turn Your Home into a Smart Home with BT Whole Home Wi-Fi

Whole Home Wi-Fi has been designed for properties of all shapes and sizes and seeks to cut out the frustrating drop-outs or dead zones around the home where the Internet signal just can’t reach.

With BT Whole Home Wi-Fi installed you don’t have to worry about the film you’re streaming buffering every ten seconds, the connection for the game you’re playing with friends dropping out at crucial moments or being unable to work from certain rooms in your home when you’ve got tight deadlines.

Similarly to how different rooms have different mobile phone signal strengths; some properties experience issues where the Wi-Fi connection doesn’t work as well or, in some cases, at all.

The aim of Whole Home Wi-Fi is – as the name suggests – to deliver a super-fast, seamless connection throughout the property through a number of discs strategically located around your home.

Smart homes rely on a strong Internet connection in order for each of the devices to operate to their full potential. Whether it’s a property-wide smart lighting or heating system or an individual device like a smart speaker, they all rely on seamless and reliable Wi-Fi connection in order to receive and act upon commands.

Similarly, the apps that you use on your smartphone or tablet require an Internet connection to work. When you leave the office you might go to the Hive app on your phone and set the heating to come on in 20 minutes and the lights to come on in the hallway so that you get home to a warm and lit property.

None of this would be possible with a high quality Internet connection and Whole Home Wi-Fi provides the perfect platform to make this happen. The removal of any dead spots in the home ensures that the smart light bulbs you want to switch on are on, and that the smart security cameras or video doorbell that you set up outside the front door are operational and capable of transmitting the footage to your phone or tablet.

A mesh network is a combination of different devices that all “talk” to each other, helping to share the Internet connection around the property to where it’s needed, when it’s needed. BT whole home Wi-Fi consists of a number of individual discs located around the home that help to share the Internet signal and eradicate the dead spots where the Internet signal may not reach normally.

Depending on the size of the property you may have a different number of discs in the home. A typical rule of thumb is that the mesh network in an average three to five-bedroom home would have three discs. This would drop to two discs for a one or two-bedroom property or increase to four in a larger home.

To learn more about whole home Wi-Fi, the smart hub or any of our BT products, visit BT Shop today.