Hi Ky!
> KM> Some with external antennas, which might be helpful.
> External antennae can be positioned (rotated) to better receive the
> signal. Did have a thought: any problems with the weight on the USB
> port? Thinking mechanical droop causing stress on the connection.
KM> The ones I have don't weigh enough to matter -- less torque on
KM> the port than an ordinary dangling USB cable.
OK - so can pretty much take that potential problem out -- unless
accidentally smack one! <g>
> And from earlier: "And I should look up to see what position
> the four antennae on my access point should be." Not really an 'access
> point'; they call it a 'router', which is more what I think of as the
> first device in the chain, (I'm starting to like the semi-vague
> 'gateway' term Qwest/CenturyLink used when I had DSL here!)
KM> The thingee that makes signal go from there to here!!
Yup!! ...And how come is 'route' as in "Route 66" can be pronounced
'root' or 'r-ow-t' but I've not heard 'router' as "root-er"?!
> Anyway, didn't see anything when scanning through the various manuals;
> nothing easily found on the Linksys site either. Finally found a
> reference to a video where it said to rotate the two rear antennae
> outward 45├╕ for a multistory building. That increase the signal
> strength to the MythTV RPi4 I referred to a percent; angling the front
> antennae 45├╕ added another percent. Not all that significant but a very
> slight improvement. Probably doesn't help the Pi is tucked behind the
> TV so the televsion probably provides a bit of shielding if not RF
> noise.
KM> Maybe a LOT of shielding. I'd move it somewhere less sheltered.
KM> Wave it around and see what works!
That little project still on hold: other things 'filled the void' and regardless
of the WiFi the camera can't be put in a position to get the
full area: stuff's in the way. Dawned on me the other day to try "the
other way": instead of view from the house to the back yard maybe from
the (storage) shed at the back of the property looking towards the
house. Nothing structurally in the way from that direction, though may
have a problem at night because of a decorative light 'blinding' the
camera. Years ago tested and have signal back there, but then I was
also 'told' have signal in the house.
> Did not experiment with the original Pi which 'refused' to connect and stated
> this thread: minimal signal increase per the MythTV Pi doesn't
> hold much promise, plus the whole reason for that Pi was monitoring the
> backyard and currently the camera I have doesn't work with low light
> conditions (0.1 Lux, either need 0.01Lux and/or IR added).
KM> I have no idea... tho the notion of something cheap like a Pi as
KM> a barn monitor is appealing. Have an old cell phone that can
KM> connect from out there, dunno what Pi-Fi could do.
For around $100 cheap enough to try, Raspberry Pi $35 -- Pi Zero and Pi
W less (there is a $5 model IIRC), RPi 4 with more memory around $45.
Case, wall wart, memory card. Attach a USB keyboard and mouse, HDMI
cable during setup, otherwise run headless.
> especially if travelling and some places with public WiFi (or even when
> visiting friends) may not have updated their hardware and only offering
> the 2.4 GHz band. Here the RPi is connecting to my personal network but
> if I take the laptop somewhere both bands seems to be the better choice.
KM> My understanding is they use whatever is the most modern provided
KM> it's available, but will downshift if it's not. Might be a way to
KM> set it??
Possibly. The only selection I've done is which network; figure the
rest it can figure out on its own. ...Hmmm: wonder if some wise guy has
an audio clip running while the WiFi is negotiating: "hchch! Boing!
Boing! Squwarrrk! Ga-boing!!" (The dial-up modem sounds.)
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