Old houses and wireless

[deanwebb]

Found out recently that lots of old houses, built back in the 60s or earlier, would put up a metal mesh wherever tile went up on the wall, like in the bathrooms.

I have two bathrooms between my bedroom and the wireless access point.



At least now I know why I have crappy wireless reception in my bedroom, even though I can pick up my home SSID from half a block away when I'm outside.

Fortunately, we are going to remodel the bathrooms this year, so I plan to have MODERN materials put up to replace the cursed mesh in my walls.

[icecream-guy]

At least now I know why I have crappy wireless reception in my bedroom, even though I can pick up my home SSID from half a block away when I'm outside.

Fortunately, we are going to remodel the bathrooms this year, so I plan to have MODERN materials put up to replace the cursed mesh in my walls.

use an open floor plan concept. no walls, no concrete, no metal, no wood, no wall board, no tile.  just hang plastic and run a hose inside through an open window....

[hizzo3]

Out in the country and areas without HOAs metal roofs will do crazy things with WiFi too.

[SimonV]

My house is ancient. My DSL arrives at my office which is right next to the street. No network cabling -and not allowed to pull some from the missus- so I'm basically running everything wirelessly on one 1142 AP. Once we redesign, it'll be CAT6 everywhere

[AdamTilbrook]

I built my house two years ago and purposefully had Cat6 run everywhere in the house to suit my needs. It all runs back to my laundry cabinet where I have a small cabinet with a patch panel sitting on the top shelf with patch leads running into a HP Procurve 1810G 24-port GigE switch.

[deanwebb]

I built my house two years ago and purposefully had Cat6 run everywhere in the house to suit my needs. It all runs back to my laundry cabinet where I have a small cabinet with a patch panel sitting on the top shelf with patch leads running into a HP Procurve 1810G 24-port GigE switch.

Lucky. My house was built in 1956. I don't even have IBM 10base2 cables...