Something to wirelessly transfer data across one room to another

Schizophonic

Schizophonic

Schizophonic

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Looking to get fibre installed into my house but the only way for them to install it is via the front living room. I have most of my networked hardwire and there is a small hub on the other side of the living room.
Where the firbe will be installed is on the other side of the same room. I don't want to use a cat5 ethernet cable and was wondering if there is some sort of good wifi dish thingy that I can use to send the internet across?

Suggestions?
 
Hardwire is the only realistic and sensible option. I’d concentrate on working out the best way to do that even if it came to running the cable outside and back inside the same room!
 
It’s worth asking the installer if they will change the entry point to the other side of the room. Openreach installed my fibre and were excellent, taking a fibre cable round the outside of my house and through my hall to where I already had my router next to the old phone/ broadband point. Like the OP the original install point was in the living room
 
My experience with an Openreach Fibre Installer was fine. It was for replacement failover broadband for my work after we went to VoIP due to the ISDN lines being discontinued at some point, when he arrived I told him it has to go into the room above my office where the rack is. This was at the completely opposite end of our site to the phone post on the side of the main road. No grumbles from him, he just spent 30 mins walking around the building working out the best way to do it and then got it sorted.
 
thanks for all the suggestions however on my street where its terrace houses, fibre has entered into the houses all via the same entry point. Unfortunately i'm not at either ends of the street but in the middle.
Cable might be a way I can do it and possibly through some sort of decorative trunking which I've seen before. And you can get some low profile cat5 cables.

I wasn't sure if there was something wirelessly like some sort of easy 2 way mesh system I can have connected but I'll keep looking for something.

I really want fibre as my ADSL line is about £42 a month and only 80Mbps download. I know I can get much faster for slightly cheaper.
 
I’ve used flat Ethernet cable to connect devices at opposite ends of a room. It can run along the edge of a carpet without too much bother and is pretty inconspicuous once laid.
 
Bluecube said:
I’ve used flat Ethernet cable to connect devices at opposite ends of a room. It can run along the edge of a carpet without too much bother and is pretty inconspicuous once laid.
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I’d go with something like this and then look to hide the cable properly next time you decorate or replace the carpet.

Point to point WiFi solutions which is what you would be looking at are normally designed for use outside over reasonable distances and would be a messy overkill solution for getting from one side of the room to the other!

Another option could be getting the fibre link out into an upstairs room if you already have a hardwired link to that room you could simply plug it in.
 
Pretty much any wireless AP will do a wifi bridge.

You are talking same room though, seriously just do a cable, you get also sorts of cable that can be discreetly hidden under floors, between carpet and wall etc.
 
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Bluecube said:
I’ve used flat Ethernet cable to connect devices at opposite ends of a room. It can run along the edge of a carpet without too much bother and is pretty inconspicuous once laid.
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Yup pretty much what I did in my front room, the only bit you can see is where I go through the door to another room as I was too lazy to pull up carpet grip, but no one is looking in between your door gaps.
 
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You could just buy a pair of Deco’s and use them as a bridge, but when you are literally talking joining two points within the same room, it’s a cable run every time. Lift he edge of the carpet, run behind the skirting, pop a floorboard and run under, you have options that are much, much better. Realistically the installer will usually run the XGPON to the other side of the room anyway if asked.
 
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Schizophonic said:
thanks for all the suggestions however on my street where its terrace houses, fibre has entered into the houses all via the same entry point. Unfortunately i'm not at either ends of the street but in the middle.
Cable might be a way I can do it and possibly through some sort of decorative trunking which I've seen before. And you can get some low profile cat5 cables.

I wasn't sure if there was something wirelessly like some sort of easy 2 way mesh system I can have connected but I'll keep looking for something.

I really want fibre as my ADSL line is about £42 a month and only 80Mbps download. I know I can get much faster for slightly cheaper.
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You can do gigabit throughput on standard wifi if the conditions are correct. I've got it in the same room across 8m span using .ac tech. Latency won't be as rock solid as wire and you may or may not be susceptible to interference from other peoples networks being in a terrace. While doable i wouldn't want my house backhaul to have wireless so as above try to find a way to get a wire across there. If for some reason you absolutely have to have wireless then you're looking at probably line of sight between both endpoints, using at least 80mhz wide bands, praying theres no interference (or you could measure on an app), likely in the DFS frequency, at minimum .ac with 1024-QAM on both ends. I believe .ax incorporates 1024-QAM into the spec natively and given how old ac is its probably just better to use .ax kit
 
Cable by the masses it seems. However my living room where the points to points will be located. We've got hard flooring so will have to follow the trim on the base board. Though it will have to go around a door frame :o
 
If its that much of a hardship and you really want wireless then a couple of cheap wifi6 access points will do the job upto and around 1Gb but if you intend to get fast fibre in the future then the Wifi link will cost you a fair bit more to support, you are looking at <£20 cable and some effort for you to support upto 10gb link vs ~£100 for APs to handle ~1Gb and upto ~£600 for APs to do wifi7 with multigigabit wifi support.

Choice is yours really.

I did this across floors with a couple of cheap Wifi 6 APs in 160Mhz mode and had a solid 1gb link between floors but if anything else jumped on the wifi APs it would take a hit. Wired is much better, more reliable but to be honest no one complained when it dropped as it was still doing >600Mb.
 
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Schizophonic said:
Cable by the masses it seems. However my living room where the points to points will be located. We've got hard flooring so will have to follow the trim on the base board. Though it will have to go around a door frame :o
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Or just go up the wall, through the ceiling and then drop down again the other side of the room?
 
Schizophonic said:
the ceiling isnt going to my loft space, my mast bedroom is there. my house is so awkward.
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Why does that matter? Surely the bedroom has floorboards you can lift and run the cable across the room there?

You could even go back out through the wall where the fibre is coming in, up the outside of the house there, and then into between the ceiling/floor, then just a single run of cable down the wall to the PC
 
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What about moving your other equipment? I wasn't clear what you're trying to get connected into?

I recently had this same issue - my server/network rack is in a cupboard upstrairs where all the network cable terminates so had fibre run into the loft and down through the ceiling! Definitely worth some effort to cable it in my opinion.
 
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