On the topic of Wi-Fi: then your kids must never grow up.
Let’s say there’s Mom, Dad, and two kids. Mom is watching her favorite soap opera streamed on the TV, Dad is browsing the internet (including YouTube) looking for instructions to fix the troublesome washing machine. Junior, who just turned 16, is gaming online on the PlayStation with friends, meanwhile running a group voice chat on his phone. The daughter, only 12 years old, is browsing YouTube and Instagram, all in HD of course. Her friend is sitting next to her on their phone, fully engaged.
Show me a Wi-Fi channel that wouldn’t collapse under all that traffic. Exactly for situations like this, you need one or another wired connection. The console and TV can reduce their bandwidth demand on the Wi-Fi by using Ethernet cables, freeing up space to supply the mobile devices with enough speed.
If, like Nordlys for example, you mostly have peace and quiet from the youth, then Wi-Fi alone is generally sufficient. But with kids around, it becomes a tricky issue, and it doesn’t take long for them to start blaming each other for slow internet.
Let’s say there’s Mom, Dad, and two kids. Mom is watching her favorite soap opera streamed on the TV, Dad is browsing the internet (including YouTube) looking for instructions to fix the troublesome washing machine. Junior, who just turned 16, is gaming online on the PlayStation with friends, meanwhile running a group voice chat on his phone. The daughter, only 12 years old, is browsing YouTube and Instagram, all in HD of course. Her friend is sitting next to her on their phone, fully engaged.
Show me a Wi-Fi channel that wouldn’t collapse under all that traffic. Exactly for situations like this, you need one or another wired connection. The console and TV can reduce their bandwidth demand on the Wi-Fi by using Ethernet cables, freeing up space to supply the mobile devices with enough speed.
If, like Nordlys for example, you mostly have peace and quiet from the youth, then Wi-Fi alone is generally sufficient. But with kids around, it becomes a tricky issue, and it doesn’t take long for them to start blaming each other for slow internet.
Alex85 schrieb:
LR doesn’t really help in Germany because increasing the transmission power is not legal, and even if you don’t care about that, the clients’ transmission power doesn’t magically increase. I haven’t studied the LR function in detail, but according to German law the maximum transmission power is limited anyway: 100mW at 2.4GHz and up to 1W at 5GHz (depending on the channel). Alex85 is absolutely right: it always takes two. Both the access point and the client device need to support the higher transmit power for you to notice any difference (it’s no use yelling at your friend from a hill with a megaphone if they only have their mouth without an amplifier to reply).
For better reception, you can either set up multiple access points and run them in mesh mode, attach different antennas with higher dBi gain, or check which channels your competitors are using, pick a free channel (if possible), and hope that no one else jumps on it. Or good old-fashioned “hardwiring” with LAN.
xelly schrieb:
For better reception, you can either set up multiple access points and operate them in mesh modeNo mesh, please use cables! Mesh is a compromise, even though it’s currently being heavily promoted worldwide.
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Knallkörper21 Aug 2018 23:10Deliverer schrieb:
By the way, if you only look at resolution, up to 50-60 inches the lower HD resolution (720p) is completely sufficient. ARD and ZDF are doing it that way. Starting at around 2 meters (6.5 feet) diagonal screen size with a projector, Full HD then makes sense. No one needs 4K for movies and TV at home (even in the future).I’ve rarely read such nonsense, but if anyone says it, it’s you (see "Ölbrenner"). I have a standard 65" TV, and the difference between 2K and 4K is immediately noticeable.
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chand198622 Aug 2018 06:53I’m not alone after all.
For once, I bought something without in-depth research: I took the measurement in the store, noticed a noticeable difference, and bought it.
And I could swear the difference is real, even though according to Wikipedia it shouldn’t be...
For once, I bought something without in-depth research: I took the measurement in the store, noticed a noticeable difference, and bought it.
And I could swear the difference is real, even though according to Wikipedia it shouldn’t be...
hanse987 schrieb:
Anywhere in the house where a stationary device could have a LAN connection, I think there should be a LAN socket, and the rest can be handled via Wi-Fi. I totally agree. I plan to install one LAN socket each on the ground floor and the first floor. On the ground floor, it will be placed high on the wall facing the terrace, and on the first floor, it will be positioned high on the wall in the middle of the hallway, each for an access point.
Then, each bedroom will get one LAN socket exclusively for the TV. The problem is that the children are 5 and 7 years old and currently don’t have their own TVs, nor will they have any for at least the next five years. So, where is the best place to position the LAN sockets? If I misjudge this, the LAN socket with a 2–3 meter (6–10 feet) long LAN cable will be useless again.
Our bedroom will also get LAN and TV connections, mainly for “value retention,” since we don’t have or need a TV in there.
That adds up to 6 LAN sockets plus 1 for the basement. Not a huge number.
What do you think about this setup?
hanse987 schrieb:
By the way, I need an access point. I'm choosing between the Ubiquiti UniFi Access Point AC Lite and the Ubiquiti UniFi Access Point AC LR. Does anyone happen to use one of these models and want to share their experience?I have two UniFi AC Pro units on the ground floor and top floor, plus an AC-M in the basement shaft by the terrace. Wireless coverage throughout the entire house and garden is excellent.
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