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Steve Thomas, Emmy Award-winning television personality and former host of the home improvement shows, This Old House and Renovation Nation speaks during a Habitat for Humanity luncheon at the Bethlehem Center in Alton Park to promote a home building blitz in the Southside where builders will renovate three homes.

Some 1.6 billion people in the world live in slum housing without running water, with leaking sewers or faulty wiring.

Others live in tents, and its not just somewhere else. It happens in America, said Steve Thomas.

You cant run a world this way. Its going to blow up. So you have got to do something, said Thomas.

The Emmy Award-winning television personality and former host of the home improvement shows This Old House and Renovation Nation was the star of Habitat for Humanitys Home Builders Blitz 2014 celebration Wednesday at the Bethlehem Center.

Thomas said he got involved with Habitat after traveling the world and seeing people live in substandard housing.

Nearly 200 people including contractors, professional home builders and developers met at the Bethlehem Center to share a barbecue lunch and celebrate their combined efforts to build two homes and renovate another in Chattanoogas Southside neighborhood.

Some donated time, while others gave gutters, building material, money or T-shirts.

They are a part of Habitat for Humanitys home builders blitz, a nationwide effort to build more than 250 homes in five days this week.

Thank you for making dreams come true, said Tom Gipson, who founded Habitat for Humanitys Home Builders Blitz.

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With so many devices, such as smartphones and tablets, entering the home, the need for Wi-Fi becomes more and more necessary. While many Internet service providers now conveniently provide Wi-Fi routers with the boxes that provide our Internet service inside the home, they are often of limited range. Also, where these services enter our home isn't always the most convenient, depending on your situation and layout. There are some options to make things better, however so let's take a look at a few of them.

First, Wi-Fi signals are best placed as high up in the home as possible. Unfortunately, if you are receiving your Internet signal through cable or telephone lines it is likely that the lines run in through your basement. While there might be some options for lines on a main floor, many of us (myself included) have our Wi-Fi routers located on the lower floor. This means that your signal will get weaker the further you get from the router. If you are located in an older home or have a lot cabling in the wall, the signal gets weaker and weaker. With the good weather finally here, it would also be nice to enjoy Internet access outside on the patio but for some it's just not possible.

Fortunately, NetGear makes a Wi-Fi extender, formally called the NetGear AC1200 Wi-Fi Range Extender EX6200-100NAS. What this device does is take your existing Wi-Fi signal and boosts it to extend the coverage. It keeps your existing security in place and is a breeze to setup. I recently put one in my home, so I'll discuss my situation.

My Internet access comes in through the basement and I have a room with a computer, router, and network switch. It is the heart of my network as it were, but the Wi-Fi signal starts to get weak when you are upstairs and becomes unusable in the backyard. By placing the EX6200 on the main level, centrally, I now have coverage throughout the entire house and well into the backyard as well. The only requirement you have during the setup is a plug and access to your existing Wi-Fi network.

Using a smartphone, tablet or a computer you simply enter your existing credentials into the new hot spot that appears. After answering a couple of quick questions, you are ready to go. You will now have an additional hot spot to connect to and you can even call it the same as your existing one and your device will automatically pick the best one as you move throughout your house.

The EX6200 works well and also provides some additional benefits. First, you can connect a USB key (or hard drive) to the external port and have access to the files on it through the network. So if you have photos or music you can access them through the wireless network.

Secondly, it provides additional wired ports so if you have a device that connects the internet only via ethernet, you can place the EX6200 close to that device and then connect it to the network with a wire. It gets around the problem of trying to run wires through the walls, floors, and ceilings with ease.

Thirdly, you can connect a USB printer to it and now you can print from any device that can connect to the wireless network (appropriate drivers permitting of course). It is truly a multifunctional device that performs its main function very well.

If you just need a wired solution to perhaps go from location A to location B (and it's very inconvenient to get there) you might also want to consider ethernet over power lines. The technology has got better over the years. Products, such as the D-Link PowerLive AV500, allow you to use the power lines in your home as wiring. It's hard to believe that data can run alongside power but it absolutely works. You can even plug this into another router if you need more than one plug at the other end.

As our need for connectivity increases, problems can arise and fortunately, technology is here to solve those too! Stay cool and stay connected.

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