Spectrum Advanced WiFi is a service available to Spectrum Internet customers to further protect and optimize their online connections. This service includes features such as device management, connection scheduling, device monitoring and Spectrum Security Shield. Read below for 5 ways to use Spectrum Advanced WiFi to enhance your Spectrum Internet subscription!
- What Is Spectrum Advanced WiFi?
- Clean Up Network Connections
- Maintain Known WiFi Connections
- Create Device Connectivity Schedules
- Monitor Your Service from Your Phone
- Secure Your Service with Spectrum Security Shield
- Spectrum Advanced WiFi FAQ
What Is Spectrum Advanced WiFi?
For Spectrum Internet customers, there is now an additional option for keeping your connection tidy and running smoothly: Spectrum Advanced WiFi. With this optional add-on to your Spectrum Internet service, you can perform a variety of system maintenance tasks designed to optimize the online connection throughout your home.
It’s easy to get started! For just $7/mo, you can supplement your Spectrum Internet subscription with this service.
You could also get this service for FREE: with the Spectrum One package. With this best-ever deal, you’ll get Spectrum Internet along with FREE Spectrum Advanced WiFi service and one FREE Spectrum Mobile Unlimited line all for $49.99 per month, with Auto Pay, for the first 12 months.
In other words, you can get three different services all for the price of your selected Spectrum Internet tier.
If you'd like some tips about how to select the best Spectrum Internet tier for your home, read our related article about how to pick the best internet speed for your home.
Call the number on this page to talk with a Spectrum representative and see if this offer is available at your home.
Clean Up Network Connections With Spectrum Advanced WiFi
The quality of service from your Spectrum Internet connection depends heavily on your chosen speed and how many devices you have connected to it.
Spectrum Internet with 500 Mbps is a standard high-speed option and should be able to cover the basic needs of most families. However, if you connect too many devices to your Spectrum Internet, your service may be so taxed that none of your devices will get the speed you're expecting.
That’s because a speed marker like 500 Mbps indicates how much data transfer your service can handle at the same time.
Every device you have on your network transfers a certain amount of data through its connection to the internet.
Consequently, more active devices logged in to your Spectrum Internet connection means more data being transferred at any given time.
Your network could be completely bogged down if that sum of actively transferring data is too much for your internet speed to handle.
To free up your network and ensure that all connected devices get the bandwidth they need, you can use Spectrum Advanced WiFi to disconnect devices which do not need to be online.
Not only is this feature an optimization measure, it is also a security tool. If there is an unfamiliar device connected to your network, you can investigate it to be sure that no external user is taking advantage of your network.
You should be able to stay on top of any surprises with this service since it will automatically notify you of any new connections being added to your network.
Use Spectrum Advanced WiFi to Maintain Known WiFi Connections
Now that we’ve talked about how Spectrum Advanced WiFi can boot unnecessary devices off of your network, let’s talk about what this service can do about the connections you want to keep online.
When you look at the names associated with your family’s devices, the identies of those devices are is not always immediately clear. The name of the device may appear as some combination of the brand, manufacturer and product title.
Without easily identifiable names, you might find it difficult to know which devices belong to your family and which might belong to your guests or external users.
To help you keep your known and unknown connections organized, Spectrum Advanced WiFi provides you with the ability to create device nicknames for the equipment most often connected to your Spectrum Internet service.
In doing so, your device names could go from “tablet” and “camera” to titles like “Mom’s tablet” and “Front Yard Camera.” These nicknames are helpful for quickly recognizing which devices belong online and which do not.
Then, once you have all of your devices named for recognizability, you can group your known devices for easier maintenance.
For example, you could create a group for phones, kids’ devices, smart home technology, and more.
Create Device Connectivity Schedules Through Spectrum Advanced WiFi
After you’ve used Spectrum Advanced WiFi to set up your device identification names and groups, you can easily take advantage of this next feature: creating device connectivity schedules for specific devices on your Spectrum Internet connection.
With this tool, you can automatically restrict the internet availability to individual devices at certain times. That way, you don’t have to constantly be managing connections manually.
This particular feature of Spectrum Advanced WiFi could be helpful for parents who need to set up device-free times throughout the day, such as at mealtime or bedtime.
You don’t need to have children in the house to take advantage of this feature, though.
If you just want to help yourself disconnect from time to time, you could use this feature to disable the WiFi connection to your phone temporarily so that you remember to put down your phone instead of scrolling endlessly through social media.
Monitor Your Spectrum Advanced WiFi Service from Your Phone
You can easily monitor and manage your service with your phone if you download and log in to your My Spectrum App. With app access to your Spectrum Advanced WiFi account, you’ll be able to keep track of your service even if you’re away from home.
That means you can stay aware of potential threats and connected devices from wherever you are. You can also manage your Spectrum WiFi Pods from the app to make sure that your WiFi is reaching every corner of your home.
Secure Your Spectrum Advanced WiFi Service with Spectrum Security Shield
As if all of these features weren’t enough, your Spectrum Advanced WiFi comes with complimentary Spectrum Security Shield. This supplemental layer of protection provides you with the following tools:- Prevent potential threat websites from loading on connected devices
- Protect other users if a device has been hacked to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack
- Detect and notify you of unusual smart home tech activity
- And more!
Your home’s WiFi carries some of the most important personal data you’ll ever handle: financial figures, health details, family information and more. Let Spectrum Security Shield and Spectrum Advanced WiFi be there to help you ensure that your family remains safe and secure on your home network.