Wifi signal at home

Ron said:
while you stream pornhub on your laptop
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I grew up in a generation of scrambled porn where I couldn't tell if it was a tit an elbow or a knee...I barely make it past the topless chick in the top advertisement.


Edit...also I guess I didn't realize people were that plugged in all the time. I have 4 smart tv's in my house with corresponding cable boxes/Netflix/prime...but only one of the tv's is actually plugged in, in the family room. And usually that's just tuned to a music channel for background noise.
 
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UTfball68 said:
I think it's like 200mbps, and unless I'm hard wired it's actually around 75mbps
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Wait until your kid gets a little older: Another what to look for in a TV thread

Streaming HD video across wifi would bring our 2.4 GHz network to its knees. The video ran fine, but nothing else did. And the Roku was far enough away from the WAP that 5GHz worked, but was slower than 2.4.

Also, if you're 2-3 rooms away from the wifi router, your throughput is probably closer to 20-30 Mbps on 2.4GHz, assuming no other cross-traffic.
 
Looking to upgrade our church to a newer mesh network. Any new recommendations? Need something that is reliable without alot of messing with.

edit: Currently we are using 2 Airport Extremes. They have been good for the years that we have been using them, but there are some dead spots, and feel like they could be limiting some bandwidth/coverage.
 
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Do you have the Spectrum modem with the built in router?
Have you tried hooking straight to it?
The Spectrum modem really don't like other routers hooked to it.
I have Spectrum router with an 3-ish year old Netgear router.
The Netgear is much more stable ..... it just stay on, but the modem router is much. much faster.
 
eh, Smart TV? .......NC works decent and inner web squirrels go pretty far. Guess I'm good. Although that shop of mine way down yonder....133.5 yards by the range finder to the front door.....could use some innewerwebs that are not phone related.
 
I'm running a TPLink 3 unit mesh system off a Spectrum modem and a Linksys router. The mesh set up really easy off the app and can be easily expanded just by adding additional units.

My house is long, built in the 60's with plaster/lath walls. One in the living room covers most if the house, one in the master bedroom covers the 2 rear most bedrooms and one in the laundry room covers the garage. They can also wire to a switch for hardline backbone.

I'm so far really happy with the performance of them.
 
Doggone. Yall got some fancy junk at home. We have yadtel (zirrus?) Cheapest fiber, because they were putting it in the week we bought our house. Random netgear router. Does fine to stream to the TV beside it and 2 phones. Just added a laptop across the house, it foes fine.
 
I am using an eero wifi 6 mesh net off of a spectrum modem. The package I got off Amazon comes with one base and two satellite points. I get signal across my half acre property by putting the satellites right next to the window on the front and back of the house.

The system handles multiple smart switches, tvs, and regular computers.
 
I updated my post above. Currently using a Spectrum business modem, not sure which model or service. It is hooked to 2 Airport Extreme routers that are meshed together. It has worked flawlessly for years. We are adding more devices and tech to the rest of the building and are looking to improve connectivity/dead-spots/bandwidth but dont want to loose reliability.

At home We are using the Tenda Nova mesh setup. Had it for a few years, with no major hiccups. They do have to be reset from time to time. The app makes them easy to use and setup, but feel that is standard.

@shawn & @DSM Turbos had alot of info early in this thread. Are their any new recommendations?
 
paradisePWoffrd said:
I updated my post above. Currently using a Spectrum business modem, not sure which model or service. It is hooked to 2 Airport Extreme routers that are meshed together. It has worked flawlessly for years. We are adding more devices and tech to the rest of the building and are looking to improve connectivity/dead-spots/bandwidth but dont want to loose reliability.

At home We are using the Tenda Nova mesh setup. Had it for a few years, with no major hiccups. They do have to be reset from time to time. The app makes them easy to use and setup, but feel that is standard.

@shawn & @DSM Turbos had alot of info early in this thread. Are their any new recommendations?
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If you want really good stuff go with ubiquiti

I’m still running google mesh at home but if I was to do it again I’d go with uniquiti
 
Lots of knowledgeable people in this thread, i have a kinda related question.

I would like to get wifi from my house into my shop without burying a cable. It doesnt need to be super fast, just enough to stream some music and perform basic google searches while im working on vehicles. I have OK signal just outside the shop but the metal walls obviously block any signal inside. Is there any device i can install on the outside of my building to receive wifi from the house and run a cable into the shop for a wireless router type thing? Does this exist?

Distance from the router in my house to the shop is about 130'.
 
I don't know what's out there now in terms of competitors, availability, etc. I still have all unifi stuff at the house, but have looked at options in case our USG firewall gives up the ghost. The new unifi firewall appliances come with a lot of features/cost/etc that I'm not excited about. It looks like pfsense is a reasonable choice (though likely less user-friendly), but that's as far as I've gotten.
Spence said:
Lots of knowledgeable people in this thread, i have a kinda related question.

I would like to get wifi from my house into my shop without burying a cable. It doesnt need to be super fast, just enough to stream some music and perform basic google searches while im working on vehicles. I have OK signal just outside the shop but the metal walls obviously block any signal inside. Is there any device i can install on the outside of my building to receive wifi from the house and run a cable into the shop for a wireless router type thing? Does this exist?

Distance from the router in my house to the shop is about 130'.
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Bury a wire, preferably fiber. You can do point to point wifi with external antennas, but it's not particularly cheap. I posted some cheap ethernet/fiber converters on here somewhere. If I remember correctly, you can get 150ft of fiber and the ay-dapters for about $100.
 
Spence said:
Lots of knowledgeable people in this thread, i have a kinda related question.

I would like to get wifi from my house into my shop without burying a cable. It doesnt need to be super fast, just enough to stream some music and perform basic google searches while im working on vehicles. I have OK signal just outside the shop but the metal walls obviously block any signal inside. Is there any device i can install on the outside of my building to receive wifi from the house and run a cable into the shop for a wireless router type thing? Does this exist?

Distance from the router in my house to the shop is about 130'.
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Other than what Shawn said, you could look at a powerline adapter as well possibly.
 
DSM Turbos said:
Other than what Shawn said, you could look at a powerline adapter as well possibly.
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Burying another wire is a last resort due to existing utilities, and concrete blocking a lot of the remaining paths. I had heard of the powerline adapters, but i was under the impression they were just for short runs inside the house. I did a little more reading and these things seem too good to be true. As cheap as they are, i will definitely be trying one to see what i can get out there.

Thanks for the suggestion.
 
Spence said:
Burying another wire is a last resort due to existing utilities, and concrete blocking a lot of the remaining paths. I had heard of the powerline adapters, but i was under the impression they were just for short runs inside the house. I did a little more reading and these things seem too good to be true. As cheap as they are, i will definitely be trying one to see what i can get out there.

Thanks for the suggestion.
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If you get decent cell service outside of the building, you could look into a repeater/antenna that mounted outside and fed a wifi network inside.
 
Spence said:
Burying another wire is a last resort due to existing utilities, and concrete blocking a lot of the remaining paths. I had heard of the powerline adapters, but i was under the impression they were just for short runs inside the house. I did a little more reading and these things seem too good to be true. As cheap as they are, i will definitely be trying one to see what i can get out there.

Thanks for the suggestion.
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Pretty sure Dad put a power line adapter to connect his garage to the house. Don't know the distance but its probably 100' or more. Has always worked great.
 
IIRC, the power line adapters will only work if the 2, house & shop, share the same electrical service... split service (2 different meter bases/transformers) is kinda hit & miss
 
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Caver Dave said:
IIRC, the power line adapters will only work if the 2, house & shop, share the same electrical service... split service (2 different meter bases/transformers) is kinda hit & miss
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Well, I've been working on this tonight. My shop runs off a 100a breaker in my house panel, so they are connected. The adapter works perfectly when I plug it into an outlet inside my house. When I am in the shop I can't get it to connect. Since there is 220v run to the shop, I figured it could be tied to a different leg than the 110v circuit in my house, so I swapped the breaker to a different position to pull off the other leg in the shop. Still nothing. Just wondering if it goes through too many breakers/junctions for a strong signal. Probably going through 325' of wire.
 
shawn said:
I don't know what's out there now in terms of competitors, availability, etc. I still have all unifi stuff at the house, but have looked at options in case our USG firewall gives up the ghost. The new unifi firewall appliances come with a lot of features/cost/etc that I'm not excited about. It looks like pfsense is a reasonable choice (though likely less user-friendly), but that's as far as I've gotten.
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I'm about fed up with my google wifi setup, and about to go unifi but damn the price of a good network now is a lot more than it used to be

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Two U6 lite are probably plenty unless you want to put one in the garage.

Or buy one dream router, one U6 lite.
 
shawn said:
Two U6 lite are probably plenty unless you want to put one in the garage.

Or buy one dream router, one U6 lite.
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One is for the garage.

I was looking at the dream but max speed is 700 it says. Which isn’t a huge deal since most devices can’t really use it but if I pay for gigabit I want to at least pretend like I get it. With the pro I can also eventually switch out the camera system to support it also.
 
Ah, yeah. We just do the cheaper plan from ATT (don't ever use it all anyway) and no deep packet inspection or anything, so the load on the firewall isn't terrible.

Incidentally, I thought our unifi firewall crapped out and briefly considered pfsense. Would have been cheaper, but probably with a slightly more significant management headache. The firewall just had a bad power supply.

Kinda aggravating that they don't have an entry level firewall anymore. The small dream machine doubles up on the WAP that's mounted in the hall ceiling 6ft away, and the rack mount one would be a tight fit in the closet where everything else lives.
 
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shawn said:
Ah, yeah. We just do the cheaper plan from ATT (don't ever use it all anyway) and no deep packet inspection or anything, so the load on the firewall isn't terrible.

Incidentally, I thought our unifi firewall crapped out and briefly considered pfsense. Would have been cheaper, but probably with a slightly more significant management headache. The firewall just had a bad power supply.

Kinda aggravating that they don't have an entry level firewall anymore. The small dream machine doubles up on the WAP that's mounted in the hall ceiling 6ft away, and the rack mount one would be a tight fit in the closet where everything else lives.
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I have a friend that went pfsense, and i don't want that kind of setup here, its too much for me to want to manage and then I'll just get mad and yell at it when it doesn't work.

Yeah, I don't have a great place to mount a rack, i'm still trying to figure out where I can put one, but I do have an idea, I just need to run 2 more ethernet cables to do it. Or I just leave it in the cabinet in the office all the stuff is currently in and see how it does. I think they want to push a lot of people to amplify stuff now or the dream wall. Amplify looks nice but its more money then ubiquiti.
 
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