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  • I spent a bit of time playing with powerline adaptors (interestingly discovered that I could connect to the network of the house two doors down with them and access their network drive and Sonos) and range extenders but it was all a bit painful.

    Powerline adapters weren't that fast, I had multiple wireless networks that I had to manually connect to, speed was still slow, etc. Eventually I ran a network cable through the wall to the room where my main PC was and installed one of these https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-lr/ for WiFi and the problem is now solved.

  • The power in 'the Mains' beyond the spur to your property is 3-phase.
    Dwellings are connected sequentially, hence the '2-doors-down' spacing.

    I'm surprised you got past your 'fuse box'.
    Without prying, is it conventional 'old fuses', mcbs or even rcbos?

  • I was fairly surprised too, couldn't work out what the random network drives were. It's fairly dated, mid 80s I think, like this:

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