Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)

Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by hackcasual on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:05PM (#19638590)

I use MoCA (over CATV) and it's really solid for me. Price has come down, you can get motorola devices that support MoCA 2.0 bonded which can provide around 800MBps for $60. Latency is in single digits with minimal jitter, compared to powerline, which doesn't play nice with the AFCI circuit breakers required by code in most US cities now, and also has pretty bad latency and jitter.

I also made sure to use a proper MoCA cable splitter, as well as installed terminators on the unconnected end points.

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Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by linsomniac on Friday April 12, 2019 @10:27AM (#19645067)

Which single digits? Single digit seconds? :-) Milliseconds? Microseconds? Just wondering... Looks like my local gigE at work is 0.3ms machine-to-machine, for comparison. And at my data center, pinging google.com is 0.6ms. :-) At home I have nothing close to that though.

Anyway: This is a fascinating idea. I had looked a year or two ago and the options didn't seem as good. What adapter are you using? I'm seeing mostly an Actiontec for around $90 each. I need to check my head end, but this might just be plug-and-play to reach 2 of my hardest to cable locations. I started thinking about just running some fiber along the CATV runs (along the outside of the house), but that'd be more of a pain. Especially getting the terminated ends through the wall. I'd want to run fiber since it'd be exposed to possible lightning, but I guess the CATV cable is similarly exposed. Hell, maybe I should just run some shielded cat6...

Anyway, I might just try this MoCA 2.0, thanks for that pointer.

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Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by hackcasual on Friday April 12, 2019 @03:28PM (#19648196)

Single digit milliseconds. Unfortunately anything ethernet over X will have latency due to the underlying medium.

I don't recommend Actiontec, I had a fairly expensive adapter go bad on me after about a year. I replaced the other ones with Motorola MM1000, which are much more reliable in my experience, and I found for $60.

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Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by linsomniac on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:57AM (#19665781)

Thanks, I saw some references to the Motorola, and I've had pretty good luck with their gear in the past (15 years of Surfboards after a cable tech recommended it as having fewer issues than the others). But when I searched pretty much all that came up for my string was the ActionTec.

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