Outlaw wrote to Nightfox <=-

I also have fiber, But I have a decent WiFi router, my computers in
the Den are using ethernet, all other connections are on reliable fast WiFI, never had a problem with WiFi.

Are you on a single floor? That's always the killer for me. I have
two layers of soundproofing between floors, and that seems to kill
wireless. My upper floor office is almost directly above the router on
the bottom floor, but I barely get signal.

I limped along with powerline ethernet for some time, but bit the bullet
and ran ethernet between the floors and put a $5 router upstairs,
configured as an access point. I'm so glad I did.



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Re: Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Outlaw on Sun Nov 08 2026 09:20 am

I also have fiber, But I have a decent WiFi router, my computers in the
Den are using ethernet, all other connections are on reliable fast WiFI,
never had a problem with WiFi.

Are you on a single floor? That's always the killer for me. I have two layers of soundproofing between floors, and that seems to kill wireless. My upper floor office is almost directly above the router on the bottom floor, but I barely get signal.

No I have a full finished basment below the top floor, My WiFi gets great signal everywhere in the house, I also get good signal everywhere on my 1/2 acre lot.

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Re: Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Outlaw on Mon Nov 09 2026 08:05 am

No I have a full finished basment below the top floor, My WiFi gets great
signal everywhere in the house, I also get good signal everywhere on my
1/2 acre lot.

When I was part of FON, a bandwidth sharing service, I bought a directional WiFi antenna. That was a lot of fun, I had an outbuilding about 150 feet from the house that was my office and a guest house. With the directional antenna, I got full signal through a house and two exterior walls.

My router has 6 directional antena's, never thought I'd ever buy a TP-Link router, I have used an awesome TP-Link switch for many years and it's still going strong, so I bought a tp-link router and have been pretty impressed with it.

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Re: Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
By: Outlaw to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Nov 09 2026 10:52 pm

My router has 6 directional antena's, never thought I'd ever buy a TP-Link router, I have used an awesome TP-Link switch for many years and it's still going strong, so I bought a tp-link router and have been pretty impressed with it.

I bought a TP-Link router once in 2008 and its wifi was very weak.. I've heard TP-Link routers have gotten a lot better though. I've heard their switches have always been good.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
By: Nightfox to Outlaw on Tue Nov 10 2026 05:46 pm

My router has 6 directional antena's, never thought I'd ever buy a
TP-Link router, I have used an awesome TP-Link switch for many years and
it's still going strong, so I bought a tp-link router and have been
pretty impressed with it.

I bought a TP-Link router once in 2008 and its wifi was very weak.. I've heard TP-Link routers have gotten a lot better though. I've heard their switches have always been good.

Yes these new TP-Link routers put out awesomw WiFi signals, I have been running this router for about 2 years now.

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Re: Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Outlaw on Wed Nov 11 2026 09:40 am

My favorite router of late has been the Linksys WRT1900/3200 ACS series. They're blue and black, reminiscent of the old WRT54G series routers, have enough cores and memory for my needs, and run OpenWRT just fine.

I think I still have my old WRT54G out in the shed, had 4 ethernet ports, Thats why I originally bought my 8 port TP-Link switch.
I ran alot of stuff in the den hard wired, still had wifi for stuff like tablets and phones.



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