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![]() Tim+ wrote: Anyone tried the BT system? https://m.shop.bt.com/learnmore/bt-b...and-services/b t-whole-home-wi-fi/ Quite a lot of money but we have to have another access point in our house to get coverage which works, but is a bit of a pain as devices frequently hang on to the "wrong" hotspot and have to be manually switched to the strongest signal. Open to suggestions for better/cheaper solutions. Probably this is fairly cheap, but equally it's fairly limited. From what I can see it's essentially a wireless repeater - the signals travel from one access point to the next. So far as I understand this arrangement the throughput halves for each access point that the signal travels through. If your broadband connection is already quite slow (because of where you are in relation to the exchange) then the performance for some users might be unacceptably poor. The professional solution to this is to connect each access point by wire to the LAN, and have a controller on the LAN which manages the traffic. That way there is only ever one wireless link between the LAN and the client device. Clearly this is more expensive to set up, but in an industrial situation you would already have flood wiring for the LAN, possibly with PoE support throughout, so siting the access points for best coverage would not be a problem. -- Graham J |
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![]() Anyone tried the BT system? https://m.shop.bt.com/learnmore/bt-b...and-services/b t-whole-home-wi-fi/ Quite a lot of money but we have to have another access point in our house to get coverage which works, but is a bit of a pain as devices frequently hang on to the "wrong" hotspot and have to be manually switched to the strongest signal. Open to suggestions for better/cheaper solutions. Tim -- |
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![]() Graham J wrote: The professional solution to this is to connect each access point by wire to the LAN, and have a controller on the LAN which manages the traffic. That way there is only ever one wireless link between the LAN and the client device. Clearly this is more expensive to set up, but in an industrial situation you would already have flood wiring for the LAN, possibly with PoE support throughout, so siting the access points for best coverage would not be a problem. Canonical review of this kind of thing: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...wi-fi-gear-is/ (the review has its flaws: I wouldn't select the Ubiquiti APs based on that review, but use it to understand the approach - not that the UAP-AC range aren't good APs) The basic question is: can you string a bit of ethernet to the remote access point, or is it mandatory to use a wireless repeater? Typical pro-sumer suppliers for this kind of thing are Mikrotik and Ubiquiti. I think Ubiquiti needs a separate controller (a Java app you run somewhere - eg a Raspberry Pi), while Mikrotik provide the controller internally (like a traditional wireless router), unless you need external orchestration. Theo |
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