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Nor want to give away desk space to unnecessary borders, hot keys, blah.
Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])
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How do you sit at a desk smaller than a normal keyboard?
I think it is more for a minimalist look rather than people having 20cm desks due to lack of space TBH.
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You probably don't have both languages installed on the keyboard.
Very good, thanks
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As long as it doesn't keep you up at night, that's the main thing.How do you sit at a desk smaller than a normal keyboard?
I think it is more for a minimalist look rather than people having 20cm desks due to lack of space TBH.
Bought a new set of fancy pants routers (ASUS XT8 2-pack). Have had an ethernet cable installed from the front of the house to my office.
On the loo at the back of the house (furthest bit away from modem and on a different floor) and very happy with my new speeds.... this is just on the 5.2gz-1 and not even the wifi6!!
On the loo at the back of the house (furthest bit away from modem and on a different floor) and very happy with my new speeds.... this is just on the 5.2gz-1 and not even the wifi6!!
Bought a new set of fancy pants routers (ASUS XT8 2-pack). Have had an ethernet cable installed from the front of the house to my office.
On the loo at the back of the house (furthest bit away from modem and on a different floor) and very happy with my new speeds.... this is just on the 5.2gz-1 and not even the wifi6!!
Can you go into some more detail about your setup? Who is your internet provider? What were your speeds before? How have you set this all up? I need this sort of wireless speed in our very old, victorian house.
Sure. I have virgin media fibre optic broadband, with their 500mb speed broadband (which is their fastest other than their 1gig option which isn’t available on my street unfortunately). To find out what you can get go on their website and type on your postcode. I think we pay £45 a month.
The “internet wire” from the outside world goes into the Virgin Media home hub 3. I have set this up in “modem only mode” (so no WiFi coming out of this).
I then bought the aforementioned router 2 pack (which is available for £400-£450 but there are no doubt cheaper alternatives).
There is an internet patch cable going from the Virgin Media Home Hub into the first router.
There is then a patch cable going from the first router into my wall connection.
The wire in the wall goes up through the plaster, through floor boards, through a wall and into my office. I’m having various plugs installed in the upstairs rooms so got this done at the same time. My new office has 12 plugs! Need to do a fair bit of replastering though.
From there, there is a patch cable going into the second router in the office (at the back of the house). These are set up on a triband mesh network which also uses wifi6 (but only very modern devices use this - my two year old iPhone does not, yet still got the 500mbps speed).
Hope that helps!
I should add, that I get excellent WiFi speeds from the routers without the hardwired Ethernet backhaul, so this may not be necessary. The thing is though that most routers sets seem to use WiFi 6 for the wireless connection between the routers, so it hogs the best WiFi signal. By having the wired connection, it frees it up.
Bottom line is that you probably don’t need the hardwired Ethernet connection.
Bottom line is that you probably don’t need the hardwired Ethernet connection.
That's spot on mate, thank you. I've got the gig1 Virgin Fibre at the moment and the new router it came with is very lackluster in terms of WiFi strength across our house, so I feel I definitely need to try some sort of dual router like you've got there. £400-£450 is extreme though, are there any decent budget options you know of?
So the downstairs router would just connect to upstairs via WiFi? And if you were upstairs you'd connect to the upstairs router? Suppose it would need some tinkering and testing. Will definitely give it a go. Cheers mate.
Yes, the downstairs router would connect to the upstairs one via the dedicated wifi6 channel. Really, they aren’t actually very far away in my house (front of living room to back bedroom in a semi detached so actually about 5m away albeit behind a steel girder) so it might not work so well in a big house.
It’s a ‘mesh network’ so there is only one WiFi network you join to and then it connects to the strongest one automatically - although in reality a quick turn off and on of the WiFi is the best way to ensure you get switched over ASAP.
I’m honestly not sure of excellent budget options. My brief was “good WiFi” with routers that look reasonable and not like a spaceship or with loads of antenna. Well reviewed and clearly they work well. There is another set of ASUS routers that costs around £350 that may well do more or less the same job, but at that point I was like “meh might as well get the good ones”.
The price of these routers should drop now the wifi6e is coming out but tbh you’re not going to benefit from that unless you have looooads of devices in a household connected so I couldn’t be bothered to wait. I’m not even on WiFi6 on this phone.
I got mesh wifi a couple of years ago after getting fed up with constant drops in the kitchen and at the top of the house (3 storey house). I only got a relatively cheap refurbished BT one but it made an amazing difference. They don't have a hardwired backbone and just connect to each other with a dedicated wifi connection. But it transformed wifi in my house.
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Couple of pairs of trainers. Not massively into trainers and that but love these. Shame I can't find the turquoise ones to complete my 3 I want
