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That is probably never going to happen. Your problem is not wifi, but the environment, where you are using it. We also have an old house, with 1m thick stone w
by vetinari 3y ago
That is probably never going to happen. Your problem is not wifi, but the environment, where you are using it.
We also have an old house, with 1m thick stone walls. The stone works as a good material to build a Farraday cage, so we have wifi only in the rooms that have AP. But the APs themselves are not connected wirelessly, that would be futile. Where it was possible, we ran ethernet cable, and where it was not practical, powerline is it. You can get pretty decent speed over powerline, I was surprised too.
- maxglute 3y ago>You can get pretty decent speed over powerline, I was surprised too. How decent, I'm assuming new wires in old house?
- vetinari 3y agoAbout ~400 mbps via TP-Link TL-PA7017P; electricity was re-done in early 1980's, so about 40 years old 2.5mm^2 copper.
- fmajid 3y agoI wouldn't advise it, powerline technology is very flaky and even less reliable than WiFi. I have a Devolo G.hn powerline bridge and my parents as well, the one downstairs requires power-cycling about once a week (why they don't just put a watchdog timer in the unit eludes me).
- maxglute 3y agoIs it only that adapater or are you power cycling on both ends? Too much work dragging / cable management in my current setup. I'm looking to remote stream / remote play my desktop to living room and bed room TV. From what I'm reading, it feels smoother even when there's more latency. But power cycling multiple adapters would be a issue though.
- fmajid 3y agoJust one end suffices. I think the software for the Broadcomm PLC controller chipset is flaky and needs a swift kick in the pants every now and then, which is why a simple heartbeat protocol with a watchdog timer should suffice.