Bristol Digest, Vol 605, Issue 7

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: The Perfect WiFi setup? (Ashley Pittman)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:49:10 +0100
From: Ashley Pittman <ashley@pittman.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] The Perfect WiFi setup?
Message-ID: <55814296.5010502@pittman.co.uk>
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On 16/06/15 18:41, David Fear wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> Just looking for some quick advice.
>
> 1) Do people on this list use the wireless router supplied by their ISP?

Yes and No, it's complicated.

I'm with BT (the logic being that having one company responsible for
both the line and the service would be a good thing - although I'm not
sure this is true) and the BT home hub has traditionally been poor. I
replaced my system with a netgear several years ago now and it greatly
improved both the ADSL side and the wireless side. I recently upgraded
to BT Infinity which came with a new wireless router to talk the new
protocol, what I do now is I use the new BT router downstairs where the
line comes into the house and I used the old Netgear upstairs in my
office acting as a second wireless network. Almost all devices are
linked to the netgear router rather than the BT one because it gets
better signal however my laptop can work off either, and does depending
on location. I don't even try to to get devices automatically joining
the closest one, they just have different names and settings.

Even with the netgear I found it a pain to configure and use so a long
time ago I added a raspberry Pi to the mix which sits in under the
cupboard and runs DHCP and DNS for me so neither router is performing
this role. In terms of stability of the whole system this last item has
made the biggest difference, even allowing for the SSD failure I had on
the raspberry pi.

If starting again I'd ditch any provided equipment from day 1 and
replace it with Draytek routers and repeaters, probably Vigor 2760n and
ap-900.

Ashley.



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