Re: old houses and wifi
By: MRO to All on Fri Oct 13 2023 12:18 am
MR> Anybody like me and live in a real old house with walls as hard as rocks?
MR> I have a router that is in the back of the house. there's clear line of
MR> sight to the front of the house, not that many feet to the front porch. I
MR> have a big metal door and like i said the walls are hard as a rock.
MR> I can barely get wifi to my front cameras. I even tried swapping out other
MR> routers and same deal. Also i have to use 2.5ghz for my dzees cameras.
MR> Anyone have this issue with wifi not getting through? should i spend 40
MR> bucks on a repeater that plugs in the wall?
A wifi repeater might help.
I've used powerline ethernet adapters in the past. A couple of those and a wifi
access point that plugs into ethernet would probably work too (aside from a wifi
repeater). The last powerline ethernet adapters I was using were a pair of TP-
Link AV2000, which I thought were fairly good:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H74VKZU
The thing about any networking devices that run over your power lines is that yo
ur power lines can make a big difference in their speed and how reliable they ca
n work. I used a couple of powerline ethernet adapters at my house (my previous
place I lived), and sometimes they'd randomly get disconnected. At my current
place, I never saw any disconnections.
I think a better option would be to run ethernet if possible.
Nightfox
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