Subj : Re: old houses and wifi
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Charles Blackburn
Date : Wed Oct 18 2023 16:23:21

  Re: Re: old houses and wifi
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Charles Blackburn on Wed Oct 18 2023 08:29:00

 > -=> Charles Blackburn wrote to The Lizard Master <=-
 >
 >  CB> yea, You would be surprised how much a piece of AC ducting reflects the signal.
 > I have several layers of soundproofing between floors, and it kills of
 > wifi.

yea i know that feeling... i use RF all the time at work and many times i've been to a site that they've been sold something wireless i get there for a survey/install and im like, yea this ain't gunna work.

the usual issue is people having a building made from solid reinforced concrete aka Tilt Wall... or they have a steel roof and expect the low power signal to go through that and also down 3 floors as well.

 > I tried mesh, I tried wireiess extenders, I tried powerline - each
 > worked to some extent - but being able to have a router for my home
 > office with VLANs and to extend wifi, and backhaul the connection over
 > gigabit ethernet is a godsend.

yea VLANs are great for segregation, but the problem is if you have something that's multicast (eg HDHomerun in my case), they can't cross subnets which sucks lol

charlie

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