Re:Avery’s laws of Wi-Fi reliability
by vxNsr on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @12:13AM
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In 15 years my family has gone through maybe 4 routers total. The first was the original 54G linksys router, that didn't even have wifi, eventually we upgraded to the WRT54G, and had that for at least 8 years, finally it couldn't handle all the devices so we upgraded to an N, 5GHZ, we only had to replace that one because of a faulty surge protector and a power surge. Since then we've had no issues in a fairly large 6 bedroom 3 story house.
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Since then we've had no issues in a fairly large 6 bedroom 3 story house.
It depends very much on the construction of your house and interference of other nearby APs. We have an access point with a six-element beamforming antenna array (2.4GHz and 5GHz, Airport Extreme). WiFi in a room next to the AP is still reasonably ok. But once there are two walls between the AP and a device, the signal is basically gone.
We now use Powerline Ethernet and get excellent transfer rates around the house. (Of course, performance depends on the wiring, etc.)