We were privileged to speak with Shawn Omstead, VP Residential Products at Bell Canada for the preparation of our upcoming report “From Managed Home Wi-Fi to Enabling the Secure Smart Home 2018-2023” on managed home Wi-Fi. We provide here a summary of our conversation.
What do you see as the top three sources of poor Wi-Fi performance in the home?
In most cases, we see devices stuck in the noisy 2.4GHz band because the legacy gateways do not support band steering.