Got my Christmas decorations and ice skates out. Declaring winter officially open.
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WiFi in our attic seems a bit patchy. It drops out regularly on my work laptop (though seems fine on my wife's strangely). Thought I'd try a new router instead of the one we got free from Vodafone, so I've just finished setting up the tp-link Archer C64. Never done this before. Took me a while. Had to get a username and password from Vodafone, and then choose PPPoE within the router settings and enter them. Didn't really know what I was doing but all seems to be working. Will need to spend a few hours in the attic tomorrow to see if it's made any difference.
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Run an ethernet cable...put an access point in....is almost always the right answer.
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The router I've bought can be used as an access point instead of router if desired. But I'd need to run a cable up the stairs. Not ideal. Hoping that it isn't necessary.
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If you don’t want to fuck about with cables get a mesh system. We put a few in our house and no deadspots anywhere now.
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Or both. I have a mesh system with a wired backline. Which is, I think, ludicrously unnecessary in a 100sqm apartment but whatever.. the developer let me configure various wiring arrangements for no cost so why not? It means I also have an Ethernet socket behind my telly so all of that stuff there can be hard wired through to the router.
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I've still got homeplugs connected to access points around the house. I think the Sky Q and mini boxes does some kind of mesh too.
It mostly works ok so I don't like to tinker with it. Wireless printing and the Sonos hang by a thread but can just about get them to work when needed.
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The problem with mesh, or range expanders, is that the wireless bandwidth of the device that you are connected to is still constrained by the bandwidth that the mesh/expander device connects to it's peer with. On top of that there is then the contention of host devices that connect through the mesh/expander. All of that traffic (host and backbone) is over the wireless connection. So if a device is connecting wirelessly it consumes at least twice it's bandwidth (device to mesh/expander, mesh/expander to router, plus losses that increase that demand). It also consumes bandwidth in every mesh device in the route back to the router.
If you wire a device in, then there is no limit (effectively - it exceeds the possible wireless bandwidth subject to suitable wiring) to the backbone connection, and that is over the wired interface and does not contend with host wireless connections. These then consume only their bandwidth (not twice their bandwidth) over the wireless interface, and do not contend any other devices in the route back to the router.
Homeplugs are a wired connection (signal waves are overlaid the power wave) but typically at least a factor less bandwidth than a dedicated ethernet cable. This may be even less than a single non-contended wireless signal.
Wireless propagation is highly dependent on environmental conditions (physical factors regarding inter-building propagation, plus interference from electrical devices and other neighbouring wireless connections). Wired propagation only depends on the physical installation (the standard of the wire, length, bends, termination, and interface to which it is connected).
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The homeplug APa give 40-50 Mbps and the main connection into the house is 64 so don't think that's too bad.
My son games ok on his PS5, my work calls are always good and noone moans about streaming stuff.
So Iif it ain't broke don't fix it,
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Just did an interview with a journo about lack of cycling infrastructure. Basically a 30 minute monologue of me getting angry.
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Is that the sound of a dead donkey being dropped I hear?
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Lack of IT bitching thread so posting here. I've just discovered how shit chrome books are. All the drawbacks of a laptop and none of the benefits of a phone or tablet.
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Wasn't Juanjo, formerly of these parts, was it?
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Unless he's had a sex change, no.
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Londoner moves up north, immediately starts complaining about how it's not like London
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"Dad wants his child to grow up in a place they can cycle to school without having to dodge illegally parked HGV drivers and sharing road space with hundreds of cars".
