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Subject: Re: old houses and wifi Date: Fri Oct 13 2023 11:13 am
From: Charles Blackburn To: fusion

-=> On Fri Oct 13 04:52:00 2023, fusion wrote to MRO <=-

 > On 13 Oct 2023, MRO said the following...
 >  
 >  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.
 > 
 > if your access point has removable antennas that are SMA you could maybe get
 > a directional antenna and point it at the front of the house. then you could 
probably get wifi in a car out on the street too..
 That would work potentially.

another option would maybe see if you can get some of those powerline extenders.
 they use the mains wiring of the house to "extend" the cabling. you plug an eth
ernet cord in each side and then on the far end you could put an AP.

now the speeds won't be great, but short of running a cat6 line across it's not 
that big a deal. depending on the house of course.

but if you were going to go the cat6 route. PULL TWO at least, and then put a sw
itch at the far end. that way you can have a load balance across the two switche
s which will help with bandwidth and you then have at least a backup just in cas
e.

OR you could just run a fiber lol especially if you have a switch with SFP ports
 or just use media converters. That will deifnately help with the bandwidth. eve
n at 1 gig

 
 > i feel like a repeater might add latency vs just running some ethernet and pu
tting another AP closer..

for a camera linke a ring or doorbell camera it's not that big a deal. I use one
 for the same reason and have no issues looking at all my outside cameras on the
 other side of the house

Charlie
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