I've currently got my gaming PC in my office and have it hard wired to an nVidia Shield in the living room for streaming via Moonlight/Sunlight.
It works great but when gaming I use a Dualsense controller connected via bluetooth to the PC rather than the Shield because connecting to the Shield causes issues with controller glyphs in games and means that I have to reset the bluetooth connection when I move from one room to the other.
Trouble is I'm right on the edge of the Bluetooth range from my PC. It's fine late at night when everyone else is in bed but if people are moving about in the hall between the living room and office then the signal breaks up and the controller becomes laggy and unresponsive.
I'm thinking that I'll just buy a stand alone antenna on a long cable and run one of the two ports from the motherboard into the living room near where I sit. That way, the bluetooth in the office should still be fine as there's an antenna in there on the PC and it'll also be good in the living room where the new antenna will sit.
My question though, is whether splitting the two antennas is bad?
Do connected devices need to talk to both antennas at the same time in which case there will always be a weak one in the pair depending on what room the connected device is located in?
This might be a stupid question but hey, you don't ask, you don't learn anything.
It works great but when gaming I use a Dualsense controller connected via bluetooth to the PC rather than the Shield because connecting to the Shield causes issues with controller glyphs in games and means that I have to reset the bluetooth connection when I move from one room to the other.
Trouble is I'm right on the edge of the Bluetooth range from my PC. It's fine late at night when everyone else is in bed but if people are moving about in the hall between the living room and office then the signal breaks up and the controller becomes laggy and unresponsive.
I'm thinking that I'll just buy a stand alone antenna on a long cable and run one of the two ports from the motherboard into the living room near where I sit. That way, the bluetooth in the office should still be fine as there's an antenna in there on the PC and it'll also be good in the living room where the new antenna will sit.
My question though, is whether splitting the two antennas is bad?
Do connected devices need to talk to both antennas at the same time in which case there will always be a weak one in the pair depending on what room the connected device is located in?
This might be a stupid question but hey, you don't ask, you don't learn anything.