On 10 April 2017 at 13:03, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
As in wireless for what? Controlling things like the central heating, lights, etc.?
No, just providing reliable wifi throughout the house, without dead spots or issues handing over between repeaters.
At the moment, I never use Wifi at home on my mobile because 4G is way more reliable - as well as faster - and I am lucky to have no usage cap on it. But that means I don't have access to anything on my (W)LAN. I'd like to switch to wireless at home but without the penalty for being so rash as to move around while using it! I've tried several repeaters and different wireless routers without success, and the reviews of all the mesh systems seem to suggest that compared with all the issues of normal wireless "it just works".
Also I feel like it might be a skill worth learning.
Is a 100Mb/s port *really* a limitation for this sort of thing? What would use lots of bandwidth? ... or do you mean, by 'wireless products' streaming video around the place?
Well Wireless-N is capable of more than 100Mbps, and my home Internet (Virgin) connection maxes out at close to 200Mbps, so putting in infrastructure that limits it to 100Mbps just feels wrong to start with. But yes, streaming video is one of the uses (from media held on a box at home so not limited by the Internet connection), and of-course that 100Mbps bottleneck would apply not per-user but as a maximum total throughput, so having lots of devices using it is going to see individual throughputs drop substantially.
Interestingly though I've found some suggestions [1] that using a USB3 Gigabit LAN adapter on the Pi (albeit limited to USB2 speeds) can make a big increase.
[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gigabit-networking
Mark