Wi-Fi Coverage in Indian Homes

We seek to study Wi-Fi coverage and performance in typical Indian homes, and appreciate infrastructure deployment strategies for whole home coverage with throughput guarantees. We prefer experiments in real homes for performance evaluation, and measured coverage and throughput performance in homes of different sizes and types, in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz band, and with 1×1 and 2×2 client devices of different make and price range. The measurements allowed us to characterize coverage as a function of the size of the home and the band of operation, and characterize throughput as a function of signal strength, bandwidth of operation and radio capability of the devices. We also validated the observations with limited experiments in a static channel. Finally, based on our measurements, we make recommendations on network architecture, AP placement and radio configuration for whole home coverage with 100 Mbps guaranteed throughput.