Subj : Re: More on wifi range - Pi PICO W Oil level sensor
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From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Wed Dec 10 2025 11:29:02

On 10/12/2025 10:29, c186282 wrote:
> On 12/10/25 04:47, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

>> I ought to resurrect 27MHz.. that is still free-ish
> 
>  ˙ It can be good for some stuff, alas not IP
>  ˙ cams and other higher-bandwidth devices.
> 
Yeah. You can get maybe 50kbps out of 27MHz Probably enough fir a very 
low res cam.,

>  ˙ Hmmm ... maybe 300 Hz ? Goes everywhere !
> 
Short to medium wave the best, as used in ADSL.


>>> ˙˙ Pity nobody makes a 5ghz "viewer" so you can
>>> ˙˙ get at least a fuzzy picture of the signal at
>>> ˙˙ different places˙ ?
>>>
>> Well they do. Its called a smart phone.
> 
>  ˙ "Bars" ??? How CRUDE !˙ :-)
> 

Er no, Not bars.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=abdelrahman.wifianalyzerpro

>  ˙ I wanna SEE colors on the walls.
> 
Take more LSD


>  ˙ DID add a wlan1 ... but, as was, not really useful.
>  ˙ You could connect to one, or the other, but there's
>  ˙ no inherent fail-over. Apparently there IS some
>  ˙ software, and/or evil config/iptables, fixes ...
>  ˙ but kinda icky.
> 
No,. it just needs setting up.
I looked into ot and decided life was too shoryt

>  ˙ What we WANT is for a device connection to use
>  ˙ the BEST signal - whether that's the primary
>  ˙ router or an extender - and switch back and
>  ˙ forth automatically depending on the connection
>  ˙ quality. Looks like it CAN be done ... but ....
> 
Yes. unfortunately that is not how *most* wifi works
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