Ethernet link
On 24/07/2020 17:09, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:06:45 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
seems a very poor way to attempt to extend wifi, by wifi - using
potentially poorly located sockets low down on walls.
with metal backboxes, or foil-lined plasterboard ...
Ah but they are out of sight. No nasty box with distracting flashing
lights up on a shelf with sticky up things and a wire running across
the wall to a wall wart.
The fact that in most houses they could cover the whole house with a
single properly placed AP doesn't come into it. Not helped of course
by the predominance of the "single box" containing, the modem,
firewall/router, network switch and WiFi AP. This single box being
again stuffed out of the way somewhere.
+1
The router is in the loft. its WiFi has been turned off. I put a Unifi
AP in the centre of the house which is the hall ceiling....
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