Interesting option, I recall JR8 talking about it on this forum but I forgot until you reminded me. I think if I owned the apartment and could not live with the plastic conduit along the walls and around door frames I might consider such alternatives. However, I only rent and I don't mind the conduit so I will probably stick with running cables. I already did that from the router to the home office and Singtel did it from the outside Fibre connection to the living room wall. Plenty of plastic on the walls already!ScoobyDoes wrote:I would get a Giga-Switch.
Alternative is to have that plus 'Ethernet-Over-Powerline' so that maybe the switch is at the opposite end of the house from the router.
Since my PC is very far from the modem/router I run a Powerline Ethernet and so far the speed is good though I just had to upgrade the plugs a couple of weeks ago to take advantage of un upgrade to the main line.
Steve1960 wrote: However, I only rent and I don't mind the conduit so I will probably stick with running cables. I already did that from the router to the home office and Singtel did it from the outside Fibre connection to the living room wall. Plenty of plastic on the walls already!
Yes that's correct. As I recall the cabled 'network' in our walls was and is buggered, and wi-fi within the unit was simply unable to get around all the ferro-concrete walls and corners. We had the precise same at our previous flat here and I had a 10M network cable trailing on the floor from the lounge (primary socket) to the study, that worked fine but was a trip-hazard, looked ugly, and was a dust magnet.Steve1960 wrote:Interesting option, I recall JR8 talking about it on this forumScoobyDoes wrote: Alternative is to have that plus 'Ethernet-Over-Powerline'
Yes thanks you are correct. There are 3 metal partition walls between the routers and the main bedroom and its not easy to move the routers to a better position unfortunately.aster wrote:Are you able to set up two seemingly separate networks, one for the 2.4GHz and the other for 5GHz?
Try connecting separately to each frequency's SSID setup to see if you are seeing any differences in signal strength where you mentioned you are having issues getting connected. One band is better for overall distance, but the other is better at penetrating walls and other objects in the way.
Thanks, yes that is exactly what I did based on all your recommendations. It was the perfect job. Fast, cheap and with low expectations!sundaymorningstaple wrote:Steve, can't you just use a set of TP powerline plug links to get her into the bedroom?
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