Thats true. And the higher it goes the more money you have to spend to properly network. I have heard 60GHz requires you to be in the same room as the AP but gives fantastic speeds. What i eventually plan on doing is buying say a 24 port PoE switch and running 2 cables to the ceiling in each room (for redundancy) and putting an AP in every room. I know that will cost a good chunk of money, but with an AP in every room that would future proof the network for higher and higher frequencies in the future.
Less RF interference, sure, but a lot more wall and physical object interference as the higher frequencies aren’t able to go through them nearly as much.
Overall, it’s great to have more spectrum available, especially in a less crowded range. More options means more optimal solutions to be had.
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 9 months ago
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 9 months ago
If you’re wanting to future proof, run conduit not just wires. For now a setup like that is overkill and probably straight up won’t work well, since roaming is a client decision and the clients make really silly choices sometimes.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yep! once evening runs on fiber or USB C, you can easily pull more wires to that location!
howrar@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I keep seeing this brought up but I can’t find information on how they work. How do you actually get new wire through a conduit? Do they not get stuck in corners? Or on the ridges of the tubes? What if you need to send wires upwards?
nowwhatnapster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
A pull string is typically vacuumed though the conduit and left inside for attaching to and pulling wires through.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Pull a pull string in the conduit along with the wires.
When you pull new cable you use the existing pull string and pull a new pull string through the conduit at the same time; this was you still have a pull string.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
60GHz is more of a PTP or PTMP use case spectrum i.e. outdoor, long range, high throughput, but requires line of sight.
I have an enterprise style network stack like you described, albeit a bit more. It allows me to be dedicate a single spectrum per SSID e.g. my IoT network is only 2.4GHz, or use multiple spectrums across multiple access points for a single SSID e.g. guest wifi uses 2.4GHz & 5GHz across several across points for roaming.
So with that said, you can’t future proof yourself with an AP, as standards evolve and change - but you can somewhat protect yourself by running the right cable (Cat 6a). Regardless, if you’re just trying it get wifi in two rooms, you probably only need a single access point, but far be it for me to lecture someone on excessive home IT spending.
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 9 months ago
I need more than one access point for sure. My house is made of brick and even the internal walls are extremely thick. So signals have real trouble penetrating the walls. That is why i intend to do 1 ap/room.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Without knowing your floorplan, I can’t really provide any additional insight.
I would just add that I’m guess your doors aren’t brick, so a ceiling mounted AP in a hallway would likely be able to provide good coverage through any doors within range.
Regardless, running proper cable conduit, and doing it properly, is the single best and most impactful thing you can do.
Good luck.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 9 months ago
This is it. All this speed is theoretical, unless you’re willing to fork out a lot for a grid of APs with LoS.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Just wait until we enter the gamma spectrum, then it should be quite penetrative.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
They already have that, but it’s only been a limited release so far. Just a drop in the ocean.