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Re:Best Wifi Mesh Network Kits by ascorbic on Monday December 05, 2016 @03:01AM (#13104036)
Another happy UniFi user here. I have an 18th century house which isn't large but has very thick internal walls, which makes it a tough environment for wifi. A couple of ceiling -mounted UAC-AC-Lites connected to an Edgerouter X gives me full speed everywhere.
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Re:Best Wifi Mesh Network Kits by briandear on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:36PM (#13109891)
Are your AC lites hard-lined into the router? And if not do you get speed degradation from the hops?

My house is 17th century bastide in France which was apparently built to repel canon or nuclear blasts -- my walls are a meter thick in some places and average over a half meter of pure stone. Wifi is a challenge and pulling cable is excruciating.

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Re:Best Wifi Mesh Network Kits by ascorbic on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @05:32PM (#13118878)
Yes. I was renovating so was able to run cat-6 to them, even if it took some quite circuitous routes.
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