Subj : old houses and wifi
To : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Oct 13 2023 10:56 am
Re: old houses and wifi
By: MRO to All on Fri Oct 13 2023 12:18 am
> Anybody like me and live in a real old house with walls as hard as rocks?
>
> I have a router that is in the back of the house. there's clear line of
> sight to the front of the house, not that many feet to the front porch. I
> have a big metal door and like i said the walls are hard as a rock.
>
> I can barely get wifi to my front cameras. I even tried swapping out other
> routers and same deal. Also i have to use 2.5ghz for my dzees cameras.
>
> Anyone have this issue with wifi not getting through? should i spend 40
> bucks on a repeater that plugs in the wall?
>
>
https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-WiFi-Range-Extender-EX5000/dp/B083R46CV8/
>
>
https://www.amazon.com/Wifi-Extender-Booster-Wireless-Repeater/dp/B08RHD97QY
I used power-line network adapters to create WiFi bridges and repeaters and the best solutions I've found are the mesh network systems:
https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/mesh/
https://store.google.com/us/magazine/compare_routers?hl=en-US&pli=1
https://www.amazon.com/eero-reliable-gigabit-connect-Coverage/dp/B091G68F8C
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