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jbraner
Dialled in
12 months ago

wifi signal strength

Hi, This has probably been discussed before - but I haven't found it yet 😉 Can we please talk about wifi signal strength? My flat is not that big, but the VM router (hub3) comes in at one end, an...
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    jbraner
    12 months ago

    Hi Steven,

    Thanks a lot for having a look. I'll look out for a PM from you.

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Adduxi
Very Insightful Person
12 months ago

VM will not "loan" you any Pods, nor I suspect will they send an engineer to do a Wifi survey.  Simplest way is a powerline Wifi extender.  Best way is extending an ethernet solution to the dead spot, and get a proper Wifi Access Point.

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    jbraner
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    12 months ago
    Adduxi wrote:

    VM will not "loan" you any Pods, nor I suspect will they send an engineer to do a Wifi survey.  Simplest way is a powerline Wifi extender.

    I didn't think so - I just thought I'd throw it out there 😉

     

    Simplest way is a powerline Wifi extender.  Best way is extending an ethernet solution to the dead spot, and get a proper Wifi Access Point.

    But the point is - would you be looking at this with levels of -65dBm?

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      Adduxi
      Very Insightful Person
      12 months ago

      At the moment, my Wifi strength is showing as -43dBm, so -65 is quite a bit lower.  Even my most distant AP is showing -70dBm at this location, so I would reckon you wouldn't go amiss with an extender.