Recent content by SpaceTofu

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...