wifi woes..

Hudson1984

Hudson1984

Hudson1984

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Hi all,

sooo, recently upgraded to some T-link mesh nodes. Things are good. Good signal etc.

my main issue is wifi to my pc in the garage. I take online piano lessons and have recently finished refurbing my garage so it's been insulated etc meaning signal has more to get through to get there.

Now I get on signal but i'm thinking the on board receiver on the PC is naff and can't actively take the signal very well.

any recommendations on a better wifi adapter? it's only a mini pc so can't put a card in so would need to be a dongle or something like that. I can't run a cable out there either.

powerline may be possible from one of the nodes?
 
In my shed laptop had flaky signal so i got a ubiquiti nanostation loco m2 and stuck it in the window pointing at the house and used it with laptop as a wifi client and it worked brill.
Get something like one of those or other sector or dish type thing so it can not only send but receive better
 
Point to point WiFi bridge maybe or power line if you have the same ring available in both buildings and can deal with lower performance and some flakyness that power line may provide.

Pointing a strong ap at the building may be hit and miss, while the transmit from the ap may get through the devices won't have the same transmit power to get back. P2P will get around this because you Tx/Rx strength is the same both ends.
 
Bought one of these: Asus USB-AC68 Dual-Band AC1900 USB Wi-Fi Adapter

taken me from 3mb down to 19mb. So i'm happy. I didn't want to risk the powerline as I think it's all on a different ring. Didn't look into P2P but i'm happy with this fix, I also managed to move one of my nodes, so I now have a node on one side of a wall and the adapter on the other so it's a good as it's going to get I think.

 
well my adapter didn't fix the issue in the end.

still massive lag, still crap, still bloody annoying.

I am getting 15mb down, 4mb up. But lag is insane. It's glitchy and i'm close to throwing it all out the window...

if I got a powerline adaptor - connected it to the mesh node that's closest to the garage (and also on the same wiring circuit as the garage as the garage is connected to the house) and plugged this into the PC via network cable, would this help? would have course mean i've wasted my money on the adapter but i'm wasting money on these friggin lessons every week that this fails.
 
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I see this in countless posts. People throwing good money after bad on increasingly expensive “solutions” that don’t work. There is no easy solution to do this. You need a cable run (probably a length of optical fibre) or you need an external PtP wireless bridge, so you’ll need to drill holes in the walls anyway. Sorry to be blunt.
 
i'm going increasingly cheap lol
trouble I have is the main modem is at one side of my house, the garage is at the other, which is circa 12m I'd need to go through 5 walls to get it there. Unless I run a cable outside? then I suppose it wouldn't be sooo bad but rather not if I can work around it.

I don't know about these PtP things, just a satellite type deal isn't it? I mean the garage is connected so just confused how that would work?

I've got a node from the mesh in the room next to the garage, I've connected a powerline adaptor to it, and then ethernet into the other one into the garage, ping has halved but transfer seems the same - although i've gained 2mb upload, but proof is in the pudding as they say, awaiting a trial with the piano tutor, hopefully it will improve things.

It's annoying as the TV in the garage is perfect, no lag or anything. I mean the PC shows 18mb download and is fine on everything other than video calls.
 
If the garage is connected then just run a cable round the outside of the building. That sounds pretty straightforward.
 
I went for a powerline adaptor connected to my mesh node that's on the same circuit.

problem solved immediately, zero latency on my zoom call. Happy chappy.

If this hadn't worked I would indeed have had to run a cable but I was really keen to avoid that
 
No, my response was posted in this thread but I though I was responding to another one....

Sorry for any confusion!
 
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