I got 99 problems but my WiFi ain't one

Would not working involve them not recieving the packet when running? Because a WoL sniffer didn't seem to register anything.

Curious, is there more than one subnet?

Pretty sure no, like I said, illiterate. Just wondering if lack of WoL facility on the network interface would prevent just doing the actual waking or seeing the packets in the first place. If the former then it suggests maybe something else going on for them to not be recieving magic packets.

Does anyone want a Unifi AP AC-LITE for £25 posted before I put it on eBay?

It's a bit yellowed (from pervious owner) but still works, includes a 3d printed mount and a PoE injector

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Anyone getting rid of a powerline setup, or a wifi extender?

Any suggestions on how to get good internet to a garden office? I thought about running a cat6 cable out in the same conduit as the power cable, but the problem comes when it gets to the shed - it’s a pre fab steel structure and drilling holes in the wall to feed the cable through it will void the warranty.

I have tp link deco in the house and it can get a weak-moderate signal from that, but I could experiment with better mesh router placing and add more I guess. Also open to upgrading to newer more powerful mesh system or even going down the road of switch and access points.

Any other suggestions? Office is about 3 meters from back of house.

Squirrels carrying ethernet encoded in acorn shell orientations?

(Inspiration)

Powerline? Might suck through multiple consumer units/RCDs though.

How does the power cable get inside?

You could use a weatherproof AP mounted on the outside if you really can't get anything into the structure.

If it's metal, then any signal from the outside is going to be a problem, I'd imagine, because Faraday cages & all that.

How about gaps in doors / windows?

There’s a pre-installed hook up point from the factory.

I was thinking of a weatherproof ap on the side of the house - probably couldn’t mount anything to the garden room for the same reason.

I’ll have a closer look in daylight at some point today, but it’s a fairly well sealed unit

Seems implausible that the supplier wouldn't have a solution? (Unless the pre-fab steel structure is actually a shipping container 😅)

Haha no it’s not a shipping container! The supplier suggested removing an existing bolt and using the hole from that, which is one option, but I might just risk drilling through a panel and covering it in silicone.

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Where does the power come in?

Rather than drill through the side (inviting leaks & warranty problems), can you drill a hole / chase a channel in the base?

You could mount using tape (or maybe magnets). With it being all metal you may want to get it as close as possible

I got a masterplug weatherproof electrics box to house a mesh ap. It sits a few metres from the back patio door within range of the mesh ap which is just inside the back patio door to relay the signal down the garden. I get a good signal at the far end of the garden c.30m away in the garden office. The setup is needed to get through a patio door with some kind of special glass that knocks the stuffing out of the wifi signal.

You could try similar with a mesh point either side of the metal wall.

Power comes in via a 3 pin plug like you see on a camper van, which came pre-fitted to the back wall of the office. I poked around this to see if there was a neat way to run a cat6 cable in through this and there isn't.

With the benefit of hindsight, I should have gotten the contractor to set some pvc conduit into the base when he was laying it back in October. I could probably chase something into it now, but worried penetrating the damp proof course might allow some damp to seep in through the base, so will probably avoid that.

I could try this, but I am fairly exposed to wind off the Atlantic so my AP might end up out in the bay!

Run it through one of the doors. They'll still seal with a cable in the corner.

If you want to get keen have an outdoor cable connect to a flat cable just outside the door with some sort of weatherproof enclosure.

was it @TW or @aggi who had their linksys shizzle locked down?
I had my Three5G Zyxel > Linksys MX5500 mesh fail yesterday and i think an auto update of software might have borked it?
have had to reset the Zyxel back to factory setting and use router mode as it’s the only way to get the app to connect and check the service, it has a 5G signal so presume the linksys are at fault though the app would connect to them but there was no internet??

do they update themselves? going to try setting up passthrough mode on the Zyxel and see if they play ball. I’m the IT department here and my skills are limited.

Edit: it’s not playing ball, the Zyxel is defiantly in pass through mode, firewall is off (as recommended) and I have checked the short ethernet cable between that and the Lynksys and that’s working fine, the linksys app says I have no internet. not sure of the next steps/things to change?

Not me - this is a Ubiquiti household.

It was somebody on here...
I seem to have got it working but this is all way above my pay grade as i have no idea what LAN/WAN/IPV6/PPOE/DCHP/Lease mean (nobody needs to answer that)
but I clicked some IPv4/IPv6 buttons mentioned in this thread that didn’t quite match up to the UI for my Modem.
https://community.three.co.uk/t5/Broadband/FYI-IPv6-Prevented-VPN-Connection/m-p/14851#U14851

rebooted a few times and tried the LAN1 socket not LAN2/WAN on the 5G Zyxel and the blue light didn’t turn to red.
I hate the hours wasted on getting this shit to work, time for beer...

I'm also a ubiquiti house but I do remember the post.

Have a search for Linksys and I guess you'll find it

Couple of Qs

Anyone know why my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) has significantly slower speeds than other devices. Just ran a bunch of speed tests (in varying orders and tried last week too) and my Mac is about 30mps and phone and work laptop are 400. When I get nearer the router it's 80 vs 900.

Router is a Linksys MX5600 from Community fibre on channels 6 (2.4GHz) and 44 (5GHz).
I plugged in my Ubiquiti UAP-AC-LR to test (need to set this up but not yet worked out where to put it or how to get the ethernet there, also debating picking up another Linksys node but not checked price yet) but no different.

Research suggested turning off bluetooth and setting channel to 44 (which it was already set to from a radio scan) but no avail.