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If we don’t want our homes to eat Wi-Fi signals, companies will need to start eating the cost of choosing better Wi-Fi-penetrating materials — or, at the very least, they will need to stop putting fiber connection points literally inside walls.

Or you could just USE THE DAMN ETHERNET DROPS THEY SO KINDLY BUILT FOR YOU.

Of course you’re going to get shit signal if you put one AP in a metal box and expect it to cover the whole house. that’s why they built that box and ran Ethernet throughout the house.

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Toribor@corndog.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ideally houses would have ceiling drops for Ethernet. Consumers are getting all these wireless mesh networks that cause more problems than they solve.

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- atx_aquarian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I put a Ubiquiti long-range Wifi 6 AP on my ceiling, fed with a Dream Machine Pro SE. Google Fiber just kept saying, “You know, we could ‘upgrade’ you to our mesh stuff for free!” Ha, no thanks.
  
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  - grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Google Fiber just kept saying, “You know, we could ‘upgrade’ you to our mesh stuff for free!” Ha, no thanks.
    
    You’re much nicer than me. My response would’ve been something like “that shit is a downgrade. Your suggestion is bad, and you should feel bad.” I’m just so fucking sick and tired of assholes trying to upsell me…
    
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  - Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I would avoid Google for utilities like the fucking plague. I do not want to pay for terrible customer service on a vital service only for them to cancel it 6 months later.
    
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- glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I did home AV for years and the only consumer mesh system I would ever recommend is Eero. Everything else I used was total shit
  
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- QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Agreed. We requested 2 ceiling drops when building our house (the basement mesh AP is in the network closet on its base). Used PoE to power the 2 mesh APs. Works great for full coverage.
  
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  - grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If they’re wired back to a switch, they’re not “mesh” APs. Having a wireless AP-to-AP backhaul connection is what “mesh” is.
    
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    QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Being pedantic are we?
    
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fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If we’re making requests, please use conduit for wires. Pulling new cable (cat x, fiber, whatever) is such much easier that way.

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- AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I wish I could upvote multiple times: 20 years ago, I sent so much time crawling around the attic and running cable through walls, now I’m looking to upgrade but am not willing to do that again. I really wish I had taken a little more time and run conduit
  
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  - fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I have an old old house, as in serval generations of wire running through it. It’s a nightmare to redo. Been through conduit every chance I can, no more spidernests and crisscrossing wires for me!
    
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    AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Have you pulled the old wiring? I’ve been tempted to pull the phone wiring in my house. I suppose maybe coax also since I haven’t used that in years but it seems too early to get rid of that
    
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micka190@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There’s been an unfortunate trend of newly-built houses not running Ethernet cables. Here in Canada, at least. You can still run them yourself, but the average person probably isn’t going to bother with it.

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- BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  So if they can’t be bothered, then I’d say it’s not a big deal to them.
  
  Hell, I couldn’t be arsed to run a wire for my TV for months. And I’ve run miles of cable, and it was trivially easy for my TV, took about an hour.
  
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