Wifi Tips
-
My new barn conversion has just been completed but the wifi signal is now atrocious. Please deliver unto me your tips and hints.
I've got a couple of boosters running through the place which seem to help a bit.
-
Pro tip: Don't use WiFi
-
Pretty much, my NWN connection drops everytime a new device is used and does so until ai hard wire it. For now it's near on unplayable until my 50m cable gets here..
-
I'll remember that, although I just bought a bigger booster, seems to have sorted it.
-
Dont know if it is true or not, but a technician once told me you need to put your wifi rooter at an elevated point as the waves go down or something like that. Basically, rooter in the basement is a bad idea.
-
Uhm… electromagnetic waves aren't effected by gravity.
Your building, however, might be more likely to be more dense and contain more iron near the basement, so the point might not be entirely wrong, but for the reasoning, he'd deserve a day or two with nothing but head out of sand at the beach. -
Its best to have a router/booster around the center of the building so the signal spreads to all parts of the house.
My wifi router is in the kitchen of my home, and I get signal on all levels and front/back yard.
-
my router is the other side of the room to the computer. sod the rest of the house
-
Think of your house as a pond, and the walls as barriers in the pond. The router creates ripples in the water from its position, that spreads outwards. Some barriers can be crossed by the ripples, though the ripples are diminished greatly. Other barriers stop the ripples cold. As the ripples move outward, it bounces off barriers and walls, creating minor secondary ripples. If you're too far away from ripplemania, you drown in a sea of uninternetz
-
I prefer to place multiple WiFi AP's in strategic locations around the building, and have them centrally controlled/monitored by a controller on a "server" or a PC you just know is on all the time. Personally, I'm a fan of Ubiquity UniFi LR AP's. I have a 3500sq foot two story house with massive brick fireplaces dividing it in half, and I get great coveragen through it, and all the way up my three decks with two AP's.
-
Think of your house as a pond, and the walls as barriers in the pond. The router creates ripples in the water from its position, that spreads outwards. Some barriers can be crossed by the ripples, though the ripples are diminished greatly. Other barriers stop the ripples cold. As the ripples move outward, it bounces off barriers and walls, creating minor secondary ripples. If you're too far away from ripplemania, you drown in a sea of uninternetz
A perfect description of wifi.. though you need to think of it in 3d space, not just the flat surface of a pond. This is why tech's sometimes say it's best to have the router high up as the waves move out they will disperse more readily and evenly.
But again, Wifi is sub-standard, /at this time/ to wired net.