Will my existing router work with a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design home?

In multi-family residences, interference is minimized through channel assignments and optimization of transmission signal power during the design stage – prior to installation. Radio frequency analysis from room-to-room and unit-to-unit ensures maximum performance with minimal interference.

Home Wi-Fi is a necessity. Builders are pre-installing Wi-Fi into new homes and internet service providers are ready to improve their home Wi-Fi offering. Wi-Fi Alliance worked with the home building community to create a program that ensures Wi-Fi installations provide homes and multi-family buildings with reliable, consistent coverage and Wi-Fi CERTIFIED equipment to provide a turnkey, high-performance Wi-Fi experience.

The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design certification is for single-family detached homes and multi-family buildings, also known as multi-dwelling units, such as condominiums, townhomes, and apartment buildings.  The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design certification may be submitted by a builder at the new construction phase or added by a service provider or network installer at a later date.

For builders and Wi-Fi network installers to certify their design offerings:

• Join Wi-Fi Alliance. Members at the Contributor level may receive Wi-Fi Home Design certification.
• Follow the Wi-Fi Home Design program guidelines, which are available to members.
• Submit all required information to Wi-Fi Alliance.
• Once all program requirements are met and verified, the vendor’s floor plan receives certification.

Please note:

• For single-family homes, each floor plan receives a separate and unique certification based upon that plan meeting the program’s requirements. For multi-dwelling buildings, the entire building must meet Wi-Fi Home Design requirements.
• Program guidelines require that the member collect and submit a package of information describing specific information about the home network design associated with each floor plan. Information includes, but is not limited to:
  • Number and type of access points to be deployed
  • Site survey of the entire floor plan
  • Equipment list, and other information as appropriate