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WIFI repeater / bridge
soldar:
I think the degradation of the earlier connection might be a result of two or three new WIFIs appearing. I find it interesting that one of them is a device installed in the electric distribution transformer located across the street from me. It measures and computes power distribution and my take is that they are investigating electric power theft. If the total power indicated by that device as being delivered to the sector is more than what is being measured by home meters in that sector then power is "leaking". I don't know why it would need WIFi unless it is for someone to stop by periodically and collect data.
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Part of the problem might be the AP jumping channels trying to find the one with least clutter. Every time the AP jumps to a new channel all connections have to be re-established. I think there might be several WIFIs jumping around the channels trying to find the best spot. I may try to find the best compromise and fix it to one channel.
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--- Quote from: soldar on October 08, 2019, 10:11:03 pm --- and a 12 V to 220 V ac converter. Quite a sight.
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N.B. unless this is a really good quality unit, with proper filters, then it will probably kill the reception of any devices it is connected to. Many inverters skip the "necessary" filter stages because they cost money and most customers don't understand what happens when they are gone.
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Definitely not "good quality". Just a very small and cheap unit. I did not think of this. Yeah, better stay away from this.
--- Quote from: Whales on October 09, 2019, 06:38:09 am ---Reflectors: parabolic reflectors can be useful, there is a whole subculture of using them with USB wifi dongles. It will be harder to use them for a whole router, unless you modify the antenna to be on the end of a lead. Keywords are "parabolic cookware wifi", here's a site I used to look at.
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I have used them with good results. USB WIFI dongles with long antennas have worked best for me BUT you need a computer pretty close which prevents installing them at the end of the yard, way from the house. Ethernet WIFI clients are just OK, I have several Linksys WET54g, and they work OK but not as good as USB. As you say, making reflectors is also more complicated.
For now I have placed an Ethernet WIFI client at the end of the yard and it is working reasonably well but it cannot stay like that. I will have to weatherproof it, as well as the cables, etc. I will probably look at using the ethernet cable for power supply.
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