I'm curious who has a problem that this solves. You need to have line of sight to something very nearby. So you'd need to wire 10Gb Ethernet to the LiFi points.
But then why not just use wired Ethernet?
But then why not just use wired Ethernet?
So I run an ethernet cable across the floor, and it's not great.
I also think VR/AR use cases may benefit from this eventually.
And my range it atrociously bad.
It’s an old building, and I live on the top floor just below a roof with assorted antennas. I think there’s some microwave gear up there that would explain my issues.
I’ve wanted to do a site survey for awhile to figure out what’s up, but have just lived with the Ethernet cable across the floor.
Way back when I was still in university, if I would walk out of my room and close the door (which would put a few cm thick wooden door, some plaster wall and about 14m between me and my router) I would already have a significant reduction in connection strength.
Even with the ridiculous walls Americans use for their homes, there is just no way a neighbors 5GHz signal is strong enough to cause significant distortion. And if there somehow is, there is enough room on the spectrum to choose a different band.
Thinking on it, almost all civilian microwaves also only operates at around 2.4GHz. And since you mention sudden spikes, I would check for radar interference and if you are on a band that’s radar-assigned.
I spent a number of years as a network engineer working with consumer microwave gear, most of which was in the 5.2-5.7 GHz range. There is plenty of this stuff around.
And I’ve seen what a poorly aligned backhaul can do to the wireless networks in the vicinity.
That said, I’m not committed to a specific reason it’s not working well, it’s just not. The point was that wifi is not a good option for me for some use cases given the apparent spectrum use here.
I think it’s probably a combination of factors since I live in a dense city. Radar is certainly a possible factor.
(There are none on the west coast: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_TDWR.svg)
And then more rarely, certain military airports.
Both my phone and computer supports 6GHz, but it's still hard to find a reasonably priced router.
I need to look into newer generation Ethernet over power to see if it’d work better than the aging pair of plugs I purchased a number of years ago.
This is a recurring question and one often answered by “people rent houses/apartments and can’t just run cables through the walls”.
I’m not all that sure what I’d use this specific technology for over Wifi but I can understand why people don’t use wired Ethernet.
Already this is a problem as I have 1.Gbit internet.
Edit: I am silly and wrote Mbit instead of Gbit.
also dear god I hope it's a typo and you meant 1Gb
You want to stick with moca 2, and there might be some gotchas with older coax wiring, but I previously ran it for years without issue.
Traced the cables and the only splitter I can find is a moca 2 aware one, and the coax cable that would have been used for cable internet is unplugged so that's not interfering.
Nice when it works, real pain to troubleshoot when it doesn't.
This fixed some (probably modem specific) problems where internet would randomly drop in the presence of moca.
I believe you when you say you can't replace them, but I'm curious why? Every wire I've ever seen run through concrete was in a conduit that could have replacements pulled through it. Did they just run the wires and pour over them?
The obvious downside being the extra expense of media conversion.
2.5Gbps isn't even going out of spec for cat5 and should go the full 100 meters.
When everything else fails, ask an RF engineer. Metal is for RF like glass for light.
To connect the networks between the two buildings, they had a laser connection set up in the widow's walk on the buildings. It worked great except when it was foggy or raining very heavily, or when the marina moved a sailboat so that its mast blocked the beam.
Office spaces are going to eat that shit up. They are already running Ethernet everywhere, and they already have many wifi access points. This is probably lower-crosstalk, faster and more localized than wifi.