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Do you know if the grade/power of wireless router makes any difference for this? I've not had too much issue with wifi performance with several Apple devices o
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
Do you know if the grade/power of wireless router makes any difference for this?
I've not had too much issue with wifi performance with several Apple devices on the network, but my wireless router is also a fairly high end consumer model and probably not at all representative of the average.
I do still intend to figure out some sort of hardwiring solution (maybe MoCA, but man those boxes are expensive) but the performance of wifi in the interim has been good enough for it to not be pressing.
- saagarjha 4y agoI have a pair of Google Wi-Fis that aren’t particularly powerful, for reference.
- sgtnoodle 4y agoIntel and Qualcomm wifi chipsets have some secret sauce in them that make them better than Realtek, Ralink, etc. I haven't personally tested Broadcom, so I don't know where they fall. In low congestion environments it doesn't matter, but in high congestion environments they work better. Basically, Intel and Qualcomm chipsets are better able to receive frames successfully even when there's a collision. Transmit power doesn't matter in that more isn't necessarily better. Same for antenna gain. They are variables you can change if you know you have a specific problem that would be solved by it. That's hardly ever the case, though. Why not just hardwire CAT6? MoCA is nice if you already have the coax, but otherwise it seems silly to put in.
- kitsunesoba 4y ago> Why not just hardwire CAT6? MoCA is nice if you already have the coax, but otherwise it seems silly to put in. My house is already wired with unused coax. I’d prefer CAT6, but don’t know how involved doing that would be. I need to figure out if there’s wiring conduits in the walls, for example.