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There is an odd misconception in public, that "wireless" means full connection through two walls of rebar filled concrete... If you think that you can have plea

There is an odd misconception in public, that "wireless" means full connection through two walls of rebar filled concrete... If you think that you can have pleasant, modern, net surfing experience without an AP in each room, then you can't say you know much about radio communications.

brokencode 6y ago
Surfing the internet is a pretty low bar for WiFi networks, and has been easily passed for 10+ years. The fact is that wireless signals do penetrate walls, and putting an access point in every room would probably do more harm than good in terms of increasing interference.
posguy 6y ago
WiMAX delivered a pleasant, modern experience without an AP in each room when that was operating at 2.5Ghz in the US, one tower would provide the coverage you describe for 2/3rds of a mile in any direction. Sadly, this 250+Mhz chunk of spectrum is now held by T-Mobile who uses only 40% to 60% of this spectrum for LTE and 5G coverage. There is plenty of spectrum left over to double the size of the 2.4Ghz ISM band used for WiFi, but the FCC has let Sprint/T-Mobile mispurpose this 2.5Ghz/2.6Ghz spectrum that was licensed for educational use only (explicitly for educational institutions to use for educational purposes like inter-building wireless links for campus TV stations).