Subj : Re: old houses and wifi
To : MRO
From : Charles Blackburn
Date : Sat Oct 14 2023 10:47 am
Re: Re: old houses and wifi
By: MRO to fusion on Fri Oct 13 2023 16:38:55
> Re: Re: old houses and wifi
> By: fusion to MRO on Fri Oct 13 2023 04:52 am
> > if your access point has removable antennas that are SMA you could maybe get a directional antenna and point it at the front of the house. then you could probably get wifi in a car out on the street too..
> > i feel like a repeater might add latency vs just running some ethernet and putting another AP closer..
> yeah but i do have the ap pretty close. the freaking walls are just blocking everything. also the downstairs tv picks up the wifi fine and that's only a few feet from the porch. it also seems to vary with
> the weather.
> perhaps a neighbor is on the same channel. i tried moving things around but i didn't notice anything. this is an intermittant issue.
this is going to sound stupid, but do you get much change in humidity inside? i say that because humidity can change properties ... usually outdoor links obviously are affected a lot, but if the walls are wet outside that can affect it too. especially if they're really thick or made up of something like coquina rock/sandstone type rock.
how thick are the walls? what are they made from? any way you can put some pics up that we can take a butchers at?
and you say the ap is pretty close... define.. close :D
