Owning your own home

Maybe look at wireless mesh with a wifi 6 backhaul.

Wired backhaul is the real solution as above though.

I am currently half way through doing this, sort of. I am retrofitting an oak door to replace a 30 year old upvc monster. My thoughts:

If you’re painting (not staining) it will be easy.
It will still take ages to sand, fill, re sand, etc. so you need to be patient, but it isn’t hard.
Dual action sander.
Restoring and refitting an existing door is going to be easier as it will fit the aperture.
Buying doorframes to fit both a door and an aperture is tricky, but they can be modified (I will have to do that) - sizing is unclear, places assume that you’ll magically know what is 1981mm and what is 782mm (or whatever - is it the size door that frame fits? Is it the size hole that frame fits into? Loads of websites don’t say).

I’ll post before and after photos when I finally finish

Maybe look at wireless mesh with a wifi 6 backhaul.

These? If so, that's what I have and that are losing ~400Mbps in 11 metres.

Those numbers don't sound unreasonable to me. Might not be a case of 'loss', but rather that's the max bandwidth they're capable of of in their current locations.

Should be simple enough to test with the satellite right next to the router (laptop preferably connected with ethernet) and see how they fare in the best case.

What's the model of the repeater?

My understanding of mesh systems is they tend to half the bandwidth because of the way mesh works.

It's pretty edge case to need more than 300mbps across a domestic network anyway but why not just change to Ubiquity Unifi or similar for way more control and speed (that's what I did anyway).

If you're looking to transfer at gig speeds between a raid array and laptop then I wouldn't be expecting a providers router to achieve that.

A gigabit network translates to 300 - 400 mbps transfer speeds over wireless, doesn't it?

Halve it because duplex, then take a bit off for attenuation / noise etc...

Unless you have some fancypants enterprise APs

It wasn't hard and I found it quite enjoyable. The door was a bit manky but it had only been painted once which I think helped. Buy one of those heat stripping guns and it won't be difficult. You won't get it perfect if it's an old door and DIY but with a bit of time you can get a very decent finish.

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This is what I get on my iPhone, third floor, diagonal opposite of the house to the router.

Wired backhaul Wi-Fi 6 mesh point in the same room as me.

Wired backhaul is the answer.

Anyway…. To the Wi-Fi thread >>>>>>

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Sofàs. Anyone's got a brand recommendation, very comfy and good quality.
Years ago I bought a John Lewis sofa down cushion second hand for nothing and it was beautiful.

How much do you want to spend?

I like the Bo Concept stuff.

Honestly happy to spend a few grand. Spend more time on it than in my car so why not. Tired of cheap shit sofas. Now having a home that I plan do die in, I'm happy to do things right.
Will Google.

Edit: Their big ones are pushing 6k, that's more than I can do. Was thinking 2-3, unless I can find something reputable second hand.

Speed drop between mesh router and a mesh node is always 50% unless it’s connected by Ethernet. I learned this the other week as I’ve just had fibre installed as well.

We got a giant corner sofa from Sofology - think it was the ‘Majestic’ range.

Didn’t think they’d be any good but it’s super deep, has held up perfectly, even with a little one, since March 2019 so far.

Can’t say I’d recommend anything else there but if you want comfy; buy this sofa.

I have a MADE sofa; degrade very quickly and no longer comfortable.

Spend very silly money on John Lewis stuff, held up great after a year and a half including moving.

Partner’s brother brought the same sofa, to my surprise it felt exactly the same brand new.

Don't think they ship to the sunny uplands ;)

Ha. Fair point. You’re missing out. Best snooze sofa I’ve owned.

I need to put my hammock up in the garden for those.

We've got a nice Habitat one. Think it was rrp about £1500 but we got it for under 1k in a sale. It's definitely comfy and surviving well after 3 years of my fat ass playing video games too much from it.

I wish mine was 300/200.

That’s the keys isn’t it? I spend £400 on a new sofa and it just end up being crap, it look like a minimum, a grand to get a decent one.

Probably not much help, but I got a sofabed from Tesco in the 90s that's been the everyday sofa for about 25 years and still going strong. The delivery guys told me it was a good brand resold by Tesco. I'll see if I can find any label to see who made it.

This is very useful information - thanks.

It’s useful but not always true. Mesh systems with a dedicated backhaul channel, especially those with 160Mhz channels will not suffer this signal loss.

Yours has dynamic backhaul when wireless meaning it does share bandwidth between mesh connections and your network traffic.

Either get a system with a dedicated 160Mhz backhaul or go wired on what you have.

They’re part of the package from Community Fibre so I’ll stick with them I think.

I’ll explore options for making them a bit happier with signal strength, but I’m coming from an EE 5g router which (toward the end) was shocking in terms of speed and reliability- so “only” 300 Mbps is quite nice.