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I actually really enjoy the crappy camera in my 2020 Air. I work out of my garage which is pretty far away from the wireless router. Absent of running Ethernet
by SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago
I actually really enjoy the crappy camera in my 2020 Air. I work out of my garage which is pretty far away from the wireless router. Absent of running Ethernet through the walls or using a non-ideal mesh and halving the speed, there’s no easy way to get really good internet in there currently.
I use it to take video calls instead of my much nicer Logitech cam on my desktop since the crappy camera works just fine on the weak signal.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoHave you tried powerline networking? I did that in a three level house and it works fine. Not gigabit, but fine.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoI’ve considered it - my first approach is actually going to try to run internet over the cat 3 cables (phone lines) in my house into a dedicated 5ghz router much closer to the garage first though. The theoretical 100/10 that should yield should be enough for video calls as long as the connection isn’t shared.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoAnytime I looked at equipment for anything besides powerline or regular ethernet the prices were too damn high. There's a ton of cable company cable (standard name escapes me aside from"300ohm") that I looked at the cost of reusing for networking and it was a lot more than just slapping on powerline.
- barnabee 4y agoMy favourite tip for low bandwidth connections (on Zoom at least) is the “stop incoming video” option which can be enabled in settings, and then turned on individually during a call from the view menu. It stops the streaming of everyone else’s video to you. Great if stuff is cutting out or screen shares aren’t updating well. I wish Teams and Google Meet/Hangouts/whatever it’s called this week had this feature.