Subj : old houses and wifi
To : MRO
From : Charles Blackburn
Date : Mon Oct 16 2023 01:15 pm
Re: old houses and wifi
By: MRO to Charles Blackburn on Sat Oct 14 2023 16:59:24
> Re: old houses and wifi
> By: Charles Blackburn to MRO on Sat Oct 14 2023 10:51 am
>
> > > By: Nightfox to MRO on Fri Oct 13 2023 09:08 am
> > yea for sure.. it's definately hit n miss, but technology nowadays has
> > made them a lot more robust for sure.
> you're quoting nightfox and replying to me.
yea i goofed :D i saw his reply to your reply first lol
> > do you have a wifi scanner by chance?
> i have a phone app.
that might work, at least it would give you relative signal strengh
>
> > heck better yet, do you have an SDR?
> what the hell is that.
geeky version of a scanner :D
> > the 2.4gig band... there's baby monitors and cameras etc and those
> > chinesium
> we have a baby monitor upstairs too.
i've seen some that completely splatter the lower half of the wifi spectrum. the apartments we used to have people were always complaining that the wifi sucked. didnt help there were 7 routers on the same channel, but what was worse, one of the neighbours bought some "kiddie-cams" that used 2.4 gig and their radios were well.... not well made and splattered the first 4 channels on the wifi band. we all banded together and bought them a new one and never had any issues after that and since once everyone moved the wifi router channels
I movedc out a month later lol
> > for exampl. stick a hobby 2.4 gig or 5.8 gig video receiver and drive
> > around
> I don't even know where to get one of those.
>
> I think i'm going to get a plug in repeater and put it right by the
> front door.
that would probably be your best bet.. I have to have one here for a camera that's on the garage and this is just a regular single-level home. but the garage is on the opposite side of the house and while it works without it, i get less dropouts since i put one in.
>
> btw, you need to change your bbs tagline
yea i know just havent gotten around to it (amongst other things)
