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Thread ID: 150965	2022-10-27 17:22:00	Wifi and concrete walls	Mike (15)	Press F1

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1489115	2022-10-27 17:22:00	We just bought a house (haven't moved in yet) and I'm interested in people's experience using wifi in a house with concrete walls. All the walls (internal and external) and floors are approx 180mm thick concrete block (well the floors aren't block, but they are concrete). We have a 3-unit Tp-link mesh wifi in our current place which works really well, but are wondering whether we're going to have issues in the new place once due to the concrete. New place is U shaped, so thinking of putting the internet (and one mesh unit) in the lounge at the base of the U. Bedrooms up one side of the U (with second mesh unit), kitchen and another bedroom up the other side of the U (with third mesh unit in kitchen). One bedroom and games room and garages downstairs... Are we likely to have issues with our wifi? If so, what are some possible solutions to overcome these issues? I am hoping to not have to run cables everywhere (for a start, concrete isn't an easy place to thread new cables LOL) Cheers, Mike.	Mike (15)
1489116	2022-10-27 19:32:00	Any Wall has the potential to block /reduce a signal, having the router at the base of the U would be a good start, sometimes you just have to place them and see what happens. A customer of mine, a couple of years ago had a U shaped layout, the straight line from room to room across the open space would have been around 10 Mtrs (if that) and the signal had to go through two wooden walls --NO GO. wouldn't even be detected in the other room, so ended up using EOP devices to sort it. EOP = Ethernet Over power OR power line Adapters. They use the wiring in your house to send the signals. Video youtu.be	wainuitech (129)
1489117	2022-10-28 14:03:00	You bought a house? Wow you must be rich....	Agent_24 (57)
1489118	2022-10-28 14:35:00	You bought a house? Wow you must be rich.... Haha - we sold our house in NZ and bought a house in another country ;) <- check my location! :nerd: Cheers, Mike.	Mike (15)
1489119	2022-10-28 20:13:00	Haha - we sold our house in NZ and bought a house in another country ;) <- check my location! :nerd: . MY god. Why Mexico? Seems rather dire in the news lately with drug gangs and such. Anyway, I would position the router in the centre of the house and my brother also has one of those plug into powerpoint booster things. With an aerial. It works well surprisingly.	piroska (17583)
1489120	2022-11-22 01:26:00	An update if anyone is interested :) Finally got internet installed into the new place last week, so today took my Mesh wifi units and spread them around the house and managed to get a decent signal and was able to stream some video in every room without issue or delays. So it sounds promising so far. True test will be once we move in (next week) and have everyone using it all over the house �� Will probably still buy a couple more Mesh units for a couple of the rooms, but after running the "Network Optimization" tool in the mesh app it said the network was perfect, so hopefully that means they're talking to each other without issue! Fingers crossed :) Cheers, Mike.	Mike (15)
1489121	2022-11-22 04:18:00	MY god. Why Mexico? Seems rather dire in the news lately with drug gangs and such. Mexico, the only place Kiwis can afford real estate... Maybe he owns the drug cartel! :waughh: Finally got internet installed into the new place last week, so today took my Mesh wifi units and spread them around the house and managed to get a decent signal and was able to stream some video in every room without issue or delays. So it sounds promising so far. True test will be once we move in (next week) and have everyone using it all over the house �� Will probably still buy a couple more Mesh units for a couple of the rooms, but after running the "Network Optimization" tool in the mesh app it said the network was perfect, so hopefully that means they're talking to each other without issue! Fingers crossed :) Sounds like it'll work alright, then. If you have already been using the system with success, and the testing tool says the new config is all OK. Personally, I would have just run CAT6 everywhere. On the floor. But I'm a psychopath.	Agent_24 (57)
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