Subj : Re: old houses and wifi
To : all
From : MRO
Date : Wed Oct 25 2023 12:11 am
Re: Re: old houses and wifi
By: MRO to Charles Blackburn on Thu Oct 19 2023 03:17 am
> Re: Re: old houses and wifi
> By: Charles Blackburn to fusion on Wed Oct 18 2023 04:20 pm
>
> > just because the wifi router is sending at 100mW and his phone only uses
> > 20mW is not everything.... beleive me... 20mW is good enough to go at
> > least 1/2 a mile with decent antennas.
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> are you saying a wifi router will transmit half a mile? NO way.
>
> > from the AP and so forth. the main cause of stuff like this is
> > interference from other routers/devices etc. if you sit and watch the
> > video, he was like... "i forgot to turn on the second router/AP".... this
> > was the reason why his phone kept disconnecting lol.
>
> i just skimmed it mostly but he said when he turned on his other router
> that's when things improved when he went to the back yard. he has too many
> devices and needed to split it between the two routers. he also messed
> around with router 1 when experimenting before this issue and increased the
> transmit power and that didn't help.
Well i got a cheap 35 dollar extender with good reviews.
It worked well for one camera but for the other one in the same vacinity it only gave it one bar.
i think it's my big metal door that blocks a lot. and damn there are a LOT of 2.4 wifi aps when i walk outside. so very congested here.
