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On 14/07/2022 16:39, NY wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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So the network still works with the router switched off?
Fair enough. I suppose it allows you to reboot the router or move it from
one place / mains socket to another. But only if the LAN segments to all
the computers are connected via a separate network switch, and none are
connected by wireless using the router's wifi.
Do any serious computer people still use wifi?
I use Ethernet for my computers, including my PVR computer etc, and the TV. Everything which it is easy to cable to the router. And things which need a reliable connection - my experience with wifi is that it can sometimes go
loopy (lost connection or unusually slow) which requires a device to be rebooted, which is not possible when you are trying to access a computer remotely over Teamviewer or Real VNC while away from home.
I also have a Linksys Velop mesh network which provides wifi to the rest of
the house, for portable devices like laptops, phones, tablets which mainly
need to access the internet but which don't generate heavy traffic within
the house. Having said that, my laptop can quite happily access my PVR over wifi, for editing out continuity/commercials for programmes that I want to keep. It's a bit slower than Ethernet: it seems to average about 30-70
MB/sec (so about 300 - 700 Mb/sec) rather than about 80 MB/sec over
Ethernet, but that's only an issue for local traffic, because internet WAN traffic is limited to around 30 for my FTTC connection.
Both Ethernet and wifi have their place. It's a damn sight easier to use
wifi than to have to run Cat7 cable up into the loft, and then down into
other rooms, just for wifi-only devices like phones and tablets. One of the mesh nodes also feeds Ethernet to the Hive hub which needs to be within wireless (proprietary, not wifi) range of the thermostats and the central heating controller, so can't be placed near the router (I tried...).
The problem with the Velop system is that you can't control which nodes do
or don't have 2.4 GHz enabled - its all or none. I have a few older devices that only talk 2.4 and not 5 GHz, so I need 2.4 turned on, but that means
that the five nodes have overlapping 2.4 coverage if they are placed just at the limiting distance for 5 GHz backhaul to the primary node. This means
that if there is a power cut and the nodes all turn on simultaneously, they spend a long time faffing around while they try to work out which 2.4
channels they can use to minimise overlaps. I did have 6 nodes but I found
out by trial and error than if one of them was turned off, I still got good coverage and it took less time for nodes to negotiate channels.
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