I’m a WiFi expert – your connection is slow if your router is set up …

If you put your internet router in the ‘wrong’ room in your home, or even in the wrong place in the right room, you could be slowing your home network.

A WiFi expert explained to DailyMail.com that knowing where to put your router makes ‘all the difference’ to having a good and bad signal on connected devices.

Alex Tofts, from the broadband comparison service Broadband Genie, said routers should never be placed underneath stairs, on a window, in the kitchen or attic, or next to a vase or fishbowl.

Your router is a radio transmitter, and where possible, you should try and have a clear ‘line of sight’ from the router to devices that require a fast connection, without thick walls in the way.

Hiding your router away means your signal will be blocked (Midjourney: Rob Waugh)

Wi-Fi signals don’t travel well through metal, water, solid walls or heavy furniture, so elevating a…