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New WIFI Access Device

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My FIL, lives next door and is getting shoulder replacement surgery next week. Both my SIL and wife are planning on being over there a lot because he is a widower. Both of them can work from home. I was challenged to get Internet to his house, he does not have a computer or anything Internet connected.

I first thought about digging a trench and running Cat 6 in conduit to his house from our house but that would take a lot of work and materials plus I would have to drill through our basement and his crawlspace wall to get in the houses. That is also a way to permanent solution.

My old WIFI Access Device had age on it and with a 1 gig fiber in I was not getting the bandwidth. I didn't need a router for WIFI as I have a switch and firewall router, I just needed an access point. Business access points are much more expensive than home devices. I ended up going with a Netgear Nighthawk AX12 and am running it in Access Point Mode. The thing looks like Batman's plane but it has the range and I am getting 1 GIG thru put on Speedtest. I didn't need a Gaming WIFI device but it was the one rated with the most coverage. The gamer in the family, my son, is jealous, but he doesn't live at home.

I went and tested data and video streaming, it covers well past ours's and his property in the country. The true test will be a laptop in his house. Who knows, the old man may get a ROKU if all works out.
 
I had a business that had the cable service in to one building and we had some kind of hardware that transmitted it over hundreds of yards to other surrounding buildings. It supported VOIP and multiple IP devices. I was surprised at how good it was. I don’t know what exactly it was but it was a transmitter and receiver that were line of sight.
 
Alan F said:
I had a business that had the cable service in to one building and we had some kind of hardware that transmitted it over hundreds of yards to other surrounding buildings. It supported VOIP and multiple IP devices. I was surprised at how good it was. I don’t know what exactly it was but it was a transmitter and receiver that were line of sight.
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They do sell amplifiers, in businesses many are outside and are considered to be access points. Amplifiers will attenuate a signal longer distance. In my case my network attached device was old and it had limited strength to broadcast in MB. If my access device was newer I would have opted for an amplifier.

I did not want to have to equip his house with anything If I have to use the old router/ access point as an amplifier over there, I will look into it but right now the WIFI is near a window closest to his house.
 
We just upgraded our service speed from 100/100 to 500/500 then when the guy did Speedtest my wife got 15? on her tablet, the tech got 356 multiple times on his phone, my Dell Latitude laptop (Recond) only got 9.? but it works fine so I don't understand that, I haven't checked range but thinking it wasn't effected by the upgrade? Guy used CAT5 wire, we did have FIOS, it'd be very nice if you got ROKU for your FIL, I really like it and since we share our Netflix with the kids my oldest step daughter shares Disney Plus with us, those antennas can any neighbor pick up the signal if you're trying to send it to your FIL? We have a WiFi booster gizmo kit that boosts signals I wonder if 1 of these Google Home systems would help you? IIRC it was $300 ?
 

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I took my laptop over to his house and only 1 room did not have reception, Speedtest showed 45 down and 50 up in his eating area, and by the TV about the same. Tomorrow the work laptops will be tested on their VPNs.

The trick with WIFI is securing it via a strong password, the longer the better. I have also restricted by MAC address. Another thing is to never leave the default SSID because if it broadcasts the name of the device a hacker can exploit vulnerabilities more easily. Also keep your firmware updated, they are released to remediate vulnerabilities.

We live in the country and everyone else around has fiber Internet, except him. Also, hijacking a signal with a car on the side of the road would attract a lot of attention around here. Rokus are local to the TV, we have 2 Roku TVs and 3 Roku devices, one is a spare so it will be the one going next door. My parents are 45 minutes away. I convinced them to get a Roku TV and they love it. They piggyback our Netflix and Hulu/Disney/ESPN Plus accounts.
 
For security reasons at businesses, I restrict by MAC address. No password needed. MAC address isn't authorized, they can't connect at all, and with billions of combinations of MAC addresses the likelyhood it'd ever get hacked by a brute force attack is very slim.
 
kmakar said:
For security reasons at businesses, I restrict by MAC address. No password needed. MAC address isn't authorized, they can't connect at all, and with billions of combinations of MAC addresses the likelyhood it'd ever get hacked by a brute force attack is very slim.
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Yes, MAC address restriction is the best.
 
Shovelrick said:
We just upgraded our service speed from 100/100 to 500/500 then when the guy did Speedtest my wife got 15? on her tablet, the tech got 356 multiple times on his phone, my Dell Latitude laptop (Recond) only got 9.? but it works fine so I don't understand that, I haven't checked range but thinking it wasn't effected by the upgrade? Guy used CAT5 wire, we did have FIOS, it'd be very nice if you got ROKU for your FIL, I really like it and since we share our Netflix with the kids my oldest step daughter shares Disney Plus with us, those antennas can any neighbor pick up the signal if you're trying to send it to your FIL? We have a WiFi booster gizmo kit that boosts signals I wonder if 1 of these Google Home systems would help you? IIRC it was $300 ?
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How old are your devices? Maybe they are older with slower network.
 
Newest is my wifes tablet and I think it's probably 3 yrs old ?, my Dell Latitude E6530 laptop is a rebuild from my SIL a year or 2 ago but FREE :LOL:, think I'll get my wife a new tablet and see if this laptopcan be upgraded since I really like it, very heavy but I like it
 
Shovelrick said:
Newest is my wifes tablet and I think it's probably 3 yrs old ?, my Dell Latitude E6530 laptop is a rebuild from my SIL a year or 2 ago but FREE :LOL:, think I'll get my wife a new tablet and see if this laptopcan be upgraded since I really like it, very heavy but I like it
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Tech changes fast. It really pisses me off when a good computer is no longer usable because of web requirements and OS deprecation. For instance: Windows XP and Windows 7 were solid OS's but became obsolete as did the hardware it was running on. Windows 10 is the next OS to be deprecated and only 1 Laptop I have is capable of running Windows 11. Sure, I could make Windows 11 run but most likely the video driver will not be supported or available.

Don't get me started on servers, they too are governed by the whims of OS software developers.
 
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