Subj : old houses and wifi
To : MRO
From : Hackintosh
Date : Fri Oct 13 2023 10:45 pm
Re: old houses and wifi
By: MRO to Nightfox on Fri Oct 13 2023 21:23:59
Remember in 2005 with 802.11b wifi, devices would sometimes disconnect and the wireless AP would need a power cycle. I hated linksys and those commercial Cisco access points with the IOS firmware. Now it seems wifi has improved, some of the TP link units are impressive, however something else has happened. Now everyones TV for the moment is playing netflix and other streaming video services over wifi. Some wireless AP units have a wireless monitor which allows you to glance at the network congestion on all the various radio channels. Im sure there might be a phone app, but the most comprehensive will be a program that is rather close to the physical hardware. I'd assume its netflix, especially if it works great until the evening when people get home. What i have done to mitigate wifi problems is to use ethernet when possible. You can also take apart a Powerline AV500 and solder the wires coming from the little isolation coil to a simple rj11 phone cable... i used the outer pins (black yellow), or line 2. Then do it to another Powerline AV500. Put one downstairs and one upstairs, or wherever an AP is needed. Use the existing phone jacks in your house. Ive done this with success. Dont use the device as designed, it suck, especially if both circuits used, are on different legs of the power meter. A direct connection works so well with phone wires. Alternately, MoCAnet adapters work really well. You can also use VDSL adapter pairs with 1 pair of phone wires. These solutions work best with apartment dwellings. If you can put holes in things, i'd use ethernet. Buy some TPlink Access Points if your existing AP's are giving you grief. Sometimes its the AP that is the problem or its shitty switching power supply in its wall wort.
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