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    coupler/joiner, is there a difference between cat5e and cat6?

    Thanks for the replies . I'm connecting a 20m cable and a 22m cable. The latter could be replaced with medium effort to a shorter length (>12m), the first 20m cable would be very hard to replace instead. The reason behind the need for a coupler is having relocated my home office to a room that...
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    coupler/joiner, is there a difference between cat5e and cat6?

    Hi all, I am looking to join two CAT6 cables with a joiner coupler. In my local DIY store they sell both a 5e and a 6 version and on the outside they look pretty similar to each other. Theoretically speaking would/should a cat6 joiner coupler have any difference from a 5e or is it just a...
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    TP-LINK powerline vs Netgear router: network coverage disappointment

    Sorry all I started a conversation and disappeared. I mentioned the home building renovation we are undergoing and it is unfortunately taking a lot of energies from us. @L&LD and @Going_Strong , really appreciated your inputs. Indeed it really seems the case that YMMV and by far and large...
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    TP-LINK powerline vs Netgear router: network coverage disappointment

    Hi all, I am aware that this post will be judged as perhaps trivial or quite unfounded. I hope some will stick with me. Let me make clear from the beginning that I am not a net enthusiast, but for pretty much everything in life, I like to have the best that my budget allows and thus I like to...
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    are access point as good as mesh at handoff?

    It is indeed totally understandable for manufacturers not to put money and time into researching something that consumers don't want/need. (Un)fortunately, that need/want is starting to become stronger, can easily be seen here in the UK as providers are starting to roll out the extra package of...
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    are access point as good as mesh at handoff?

    To be fair I am doing my due diligence and I don't like what I'm reading! https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Seamless-Roaming-Orbi/td-p/1178636 https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Big-Problems-with-Orbi-quot-handoff-quot-from-router-to/td-p/1249444 Seems to me that Orbi is not that great...
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    are access point as good as mesh at handoff?

    I think it does, thank you again @Trip! Essentially, if I plan to move to a mansion in the near future, then perhaps I should invest in a Eero Pro or UniFi Mesh; or actually, I better start saving for the hefty mortgage that the mansion would come with!
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    are access point as good as mesh at handoff?

    Thank you for the added info, @Trip, haven't I learned a lot of valuable information in this thread! To make sure I understand this 100% correctly: multi-level mesh would give me the ability (or luxury!) of having, say, three very distinct WiFi SSIDs in my home, one for private use, one for...
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    are access point as good as mesh at handoff?

    I suppose Ruckus is out of the question. I did enjoy (probably more than a decade ago) playing around with net stuff (didn't DD WRT bring a lot of joy to my back then life!), but right now I would like something that works quite decently out of the box and only requires a little bit of fiddling...
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    are access point as good as mesh at handoff?

    Thank you. If I interpret this correctly, you are suggesting to plug the root mesh AP where I would plug my bog standard wired AP (in blue) and then have one mesh node where the current position of my router is? This one above is a diagram of my situation, hail M$ Paint! But then I would...
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    are access point as good as mesh at handoff?

    Sorry, didn't mean to that mesh devices are not valid products, they surely are, or certainly some are. However they do come at a price, and I am sure some of that price is being driven by fancier design and lovely advertising. Meant exactly purpose-built, sorry for that. Of course I would...
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    are access point as good as mesh at handoff?

    Hi all, was considering buying a mesh system, but as I have an Ethernet cable lying already across the house, I thought I'd rather buy an AP than pay money into a new system (where a lot of your money is going into pretty designs and fab marketing!) I was just curious whether a custom AP would...
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    Advice for a M2 or miniPCIe WiFi module + antennas

    Hello Thiggins Sorry for disappearing, you know, holiday season. I'm not against the AX200 for any specific reason, actually I do see it's well priced so why not. Thanks for confirming that Intel is the way to go indeed. Probably most importantly I need to pay some.l research to the antennas...
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    Advice for a M2 or miniPCIe WiFi module + antennas

    Hi all I am looking at upgrading the WiFi module in my Asus H97I-plus motherboard. I will be getting a mini PCIe / M2 card, probably an M2 one, as I take it M2 is where the future is headed and all the newest WiFi modules are M2, I believe. Besides the evergreen but perhaps slightly outdated...
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    from PoE to a good router: Linksys, ASUS or Phicomm?

    It is a standard late nineteenth century built terraced house, hence mainly brickworks, it looks like something just like the below; I have never tested the congestion of wireless, but being terraced houses rather than a block of flats, it is not extremely congested. The internet access (modem...
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