“ISPs must do more to improve WiFi speeds”
https://telecoms.com/521717/uk-wifi-speeds-clocking-in-at-29-8-of-ethernet-speeds/
Only way to achieve this is by offering (probably) a mesh WiFi system, which is significantly more costly than just supplying a cheap all-in-one device.
I solved my WiFi deadzones by having 2 APs and “allowing” them to use 50% more transmit power than is strictly legal.
@DigitalStefan Reading that story just tells me that I'm well outside the norm in terms of my home networking lol.
"Outside of performance hungry gamers, plugging devices into ethernet ports at home is probably quite a rare thing, so..."
Nearly all the machines in my house are wired. The only real devices that use wifi are mobiles and the wife's laptop.
I own all my own hardware (including modem), and deployed a mesh network.
@yestergearpc WiFi is the norm now and I think has been for years. Those in the know will want ethernet of course, but we’ve been in our house 13 months and I still haven’t got around to running Cat6a around the place.
I do have WiFi6 though via some UniFi gear, which if I’m in the same room as the AP does net 1Gb real throughput for my laptop. Still an acceptable 300Mb+ in the office. Way more than I need for video calls and Google docs.
@yestergearpc depending on when it happens, I may not bother with wired except maybe for cameras and sending PoE to where it can be used by APs or small switches, instead spending whatever I need to spend to upgrade to WIFi7 in due course.
I fully expect 3, possibly maximum of 4 WIFi7 APs will give me all the performance I could care to want for the next 10 years.
@DigitalStefan I guess I was just very lucky. My house used to be a radio station in the 80s, 90, and into the 00's. Every single room was wired with Cat5e *and* Cat3 for telephony.
I was doubtful the Cat5e stuff would handle gigabit, but haven't had any issues yet, and the whole house is using gigabit without issue.
@yestergearpc Cat5e should be perfect for gigabit. I only want to run 6a on the chance that maybe I will bump up to 2.5Gb or higher in future. 6a should be good to 10Gb for any length of cable I could conceivably run in this house.