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Subject: Re: old houses and wifi Date: Sat Oct 14 2023 10:47 am
From: Charles Blackburn To: MRO

  Re: Re: old houses and wifi
  By: MRO to fusion on Fri Oct 13 2023 16:38:55

 >   Re: Re: old houses and wifi
 >   By: fusion to MRO on Fri Oct 13 2023 04:52 am
 >  > if your access point has removable antennas that are SMA you could maybe g
et 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..
 >  > i feel like a repeater might add latency vs just running some ethernet and
 putting another AP closer..
 > yeah but i do have the ap pretty close. the freaking walls are just blocking 
everything.   also the downstairs tv picks up the wifi fine and that's only a fe
w feet from the porch.  it also seems to vary with
 > the weather.
 > perhaps a neighbor is on the same channel. i tried moving things around but i
 didn't notice anything.  this is an intermittant issue.

this is going to sound stupid, but do you get much change in humidity inside? i 
say that because humidity can change properties ... usually outdoor links obviou
sly are affected a lot, but if the walls are wet outside that can affect it too.
 especially if they're really thick or made up of something like coquina rock/sa
ndstone type rock.

how thick are the walls? what are they made from? any way you can put some pics 
up that we can take a butchers at?

and you say the ap is pretty close... define.. close :D

charlie

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