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Or you could just USE THE DAMN ETHERNET DROPS THEY SO KINDLY BUILT FOR YOU.
Of course you're going to get shit signal if you put one AP in a metal box and expect it to cover the whole house. that's why they built that box and ran Ethernet throughout the house.
Ideally houses would have ceiling drops for Ethernet. Consumers are getting all these wireless mesh networks that cause more problems than they solve.
I put a Ubiquiti long-range Wifi 6 AP on my ceiling, fed with a Dream Machine Pro SE. Google Fiber just kept saying, "You know, we could 'upgrade' you to our mesh stuff for free!" Ha, no thanks.
Btw, this is not an endorsement of Google Fiber. I just cancelled it. They can't or won't handle chronic infrastructure issues. Multiple outages a day, every day (as confirmed by their app) for weeks to months, and they still wouldn't even acknowledge that there was a chronic problem, much less tell me any status of a permanent resolution. That service is total trash.
You're much nicer than me. My response would've been something like "that shit is a downgrade. Your suggestion is bad, and you should feel bad." I'm just so fucking sick and tired of assholes trying to upsell me...
I would avoid Google for utilities like the fucking plague. I do not want to pay for terrible customer service on a vital service only for them to cancel it 6 months later.
I did home AV for years and the only consumer mesh system I would ever recommend is Eero. Everything else I used was total shit
Agreed. We requested 2 ceiling drops when building our house (the basement mesh AP is in the network closet on its base). Used PoE to power the 2 mesh APs. Works great for full coverage.
Addendum: Of course, our network box is plastic so it’s wireless transparent. Of If I had to do it again I’d cut the cost of the network box and just use pegboard. Can shut the damn thing anyway with how it’s set up. I’ve got way too many devices to cram in there. Oh well, hindsight and all.
If they're wired back to a switch, they're not "mesh" APs. Having a wireless AP-to-AP backhaul connection is what "mesh" is.
Being pedantic are we?
Hell yeah!
Ok, I can play along. Just because they’re not being used in a mesh doesn’t mean they aren’t still mesh APs (because they are). It’s just on the ones I have, I prefer the stability of wired over the speed of the tri-band wireless backhaul. I’m not saturating wired at the speeds I’m using anyway (500/500) with a lot of streaming to different devices.
Lol, nice.
There's been an unfortunate trend of newly-built houses not running Ethernet cables. Here in Canada, at least. You can still run them yourself, but the average person probably isn't going to bother with it.
So if they can't be bothered, then I'd say it's not a big deal to them.
Hell, I couldn't be arsed to run a wire for my TV for months. And I've run miles of cable, and it was trivially easy for my TV, took about an hour.