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I radically improved my home wifi by installing UniFi kit. It’s a huge step up to have multiple high quality APs distributed throughout the house rather than ju
by noodlesUK 7y ago
I radically improved my home wifi by installing UniFi kit. It’s a huge step up to have multiple high quality APs distributed throughout the house rather than just one AP trying to blast ever higher power. It also means that I can use much more of the available spectrum and there’s far less interference. Enterprise-class wifi is just so much better than the stuff aimed at consumers (especially the gamer market like the nighthawk router series).
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For the most part though when I speak to people who aren’t your typical HN crowd, they complain about slow WiFi when they mean that their internet is slow. The WiFi is usually way faster than their internet connection so it doesn’t really matter at all. The other big factor is latency, and basically nothing in a home network is adding an appreciable amount of latency to their connection. It’s only when you are dealing with FTTP that things like good WiFi tend to matter.
- tracker1 7y agoA lot of SOHO kits also have multiple antennas per band allowing for more devices without sharing a connection. Usually worth it. Also, I've seen #4 (interference) happen a lot, cutting the channel width tends to lead to much more stable (though slightly slower max) connections... Much improved streaming consistency.