“There’s an overabundance of tools,” said Jason Fried, a founder of Basecamp, a software company in Chicago that makes remote working tools, and co-author of the book “Remote: Office Not Required.” “These are disasters waiting to happen.”Here’s what you can do to make working from home a joy. Compared with the zippy broadband connections in our offices, our home internet speeds are probably sluggish and our Wi-Fi connections may be spotty. That lets you connect multiple wireless access points together to blanket your home with a strong internet connection. If your internet speeds feel slow, a modern Wi-Fi system with support for the latest wireless standards, like the aforementioned ones, would help. That’s because hordes of us are going online from home and sucking up the internet provider’s bandwidth, which can cause average speeds to dip.

Source: New York Times March 18, 2020 09:00 UTC