Nick @ The Linux ExperimentLooks like the WiFi mesh was the right solution for the horrendous WiFi coverage in the new flat.
3 little mesh routers later, and I have excellent speeds everywhere on both floors, and, more importantly in the office where I edit / publish stuff.
CaveDave@thelinuxEXP do you use a desktop in your office. I wonder if powerline adapterd would be more useful in sich a situation
@engravecavedave Both desktop and laptop, but on a 1960s flat with old wiring, power line adapters gave me a 10th of the mesh WiFi speeds :)
Winston Smith@thelinuxEXP Yes, a PLC does wonders. A lot more stable.
@dm29 Maybe in a brand new house or flat. On 1960s French power lines, it never works properly, way too many appliances and twists and turns in the electrical. PLC gave me 1/10th of the mesh WiFi speeds :)
@thelinuxEXP Yes, I don't really know how it works. Marvels me it just exists. I had not expected bare copper to transfer high speed internet. Surely an electrician could offer a simple explanation to us both!
visoneWhat about ping? too high??
@visone No, it’s fine
Legion495@thelinuxEXP
Meshes are great. Once upon a time even switches had mesh functions. But it was very horrible. One faulty package led to quite the trouble.
Meshes are great. Once upon a time even switches had mesh functions. But it was very horrible. One faulty package led to quite the trouble.
alihan_banan@thelinuxEXP oh no, no more old decorations in videos 😭😭😭
Ketata Mohamed 🐧💻🎮@thelinuxEXP why you brought up my trigger? Even if your internet speed is trashy, it's still literally a million or more times better than the best speed in tunisia, this kind of posts makes me cry & wanna leave the country even more
Ben Foote@thelinuxEXP I wish mesh wifi solutions weren't so expensive. I ended up ultimately settling on the Orbi, and it makes a huge difference, but jeez.
OldFartPhil@thelinuxEXP The 2 Google WiFi mesh routers I bought a few years ago have been stellar. Great speeds, very simple to set up and administer and no dead spots anywhere in my house or yard (I have a small house). They're not for someone who wants to micro-manage their network, but they're great for normies.
I'll be bummed when Google inevitably drops support for them, but - despite the expense - they've been one of the best tech purchases I've ever made.
Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen@thelinuxEXP My favourite part of the Asus router feature set is their mesh. They added it early and it spans their whole range. So picking up any of them, new or 2nd hand, integrates without issue :)
@AngryAnt That’s a nice feature, especially if they keep compatibility with older models!
@thelinuxEXP Last week I joined a 2024 model to a mesh run by a different class 2014 model, so at least hands-on experience confirms that range.
But their mesh system is older than that, so I'm not quite sure exactly what the supported span is. Enough that I didn't try to look up compatibility before ordering.
@thelinuxEXP Oh and another fun part is the new, smaller, addition to the mesh supports wifi 6. That had not rolled out in 2014, but I now have it supported on the mesh when in range of the new unit.
Patrick H. Lauke@thelinuxEXP after spending far too much on routers, running ethernet for an infrastructure setup, additional extenders, and a powerline attempt that ultimately never worked, i went mesh (with linksys) years ago and never looked back. can count on one hand times when i had to restart a node to fix something
el_haych2024@thelinuxEXP I've been looking at getting Mesh routers for three story unit. Keep getting dropouts and needing to WiFi call (separate issue)
@el_haych2024 Yeah, it changed everything for me. I went from the ISP’s router giving me 10 Mbps in the office and no signal at all upstairs, to consistent 400 Mbps everywhere!
@thelinuxEXP I'm amazed at how much more reliable my signal is after switching away from the ISP supplied router.
Now I'm looking around for a mesh setup with VoIP and VDSL support for my parents' place... that's a bit harder.
Fenton Norridgewock@thelinuxEXP Not a fan of the good old-fashioned wire?
@fenton_norridgewock Basically impossible to do that, I’d have to drill into 5 walls and go around 3 or 4 doors :)
Lighty@thelinuxEXP, yippee!!
Jan@thelinuxEXP I still have to solve wifi where I live. The house has 1 meter thick walls and Orange didn't want to put the router in a more adventageous place so we will have to run cables through those walls.
philipwilk@thelinuxEXP I set up a two router mesh last month and the roaming works ootb even on linux, but I've noticed that my desktop has ping spikes sometimes up to 200ms, which is fine for using youtube/downloads but not for gaming, so;
even though it's a bit tedious and im not sure if there's a way to automate it, i switch to my slow but consistent latency powerline (even though its min latency is actually about 10ms higher) when gaming and fast wifi when downloading stuff but don't consistency.
even though it's a bit tedious and im not sure if there's a way to automate it, i switch to my slow but consistent latency powerline (even though its min latency is actually about 10ms higher) when gaming and fast wifi when downloading stuff but don't consistency.