Re: [OT] Re: The best Wi-Fi upgrade I made wasn't a new router, it was moving one piece of furniture

On 8/20/26 14:30, Nuno Silva wrote:
> On 2026-08-18, Rich wrote:
> 
>> The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 18/08/2026 14:36, Rich wrote:
>>>> c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>     Best, shitty, fix is to have multiple repeaters in house and then
>>>>>     pick the BEST one to connect to in any given part of the structure.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that is the best way, but also the more complicated way, so most
>>>> non-techie folks won't end up going that route.
>>>>
>>> The best way is to wire the house with CAT 5
>>
>> Indeed, yes.  That avoids all issues with WiFi, at least for those
>> devices that can be connected to a CAT5 wire.
> 
> I appreciate all the petting and the cuteness and so on, but I'm not
> sure how do they provide the data transfer.
> 
> Do I need to configure a TUN-a interface?

   Start here :

   https://www.baeldung.com/linux/tun-interface-purpose

   There are 'C' code examples too.

   However if there ARE "simpler" solutions to your
   particular issues, by all means use THEM.

   Not every house/building/site is particularly good
   for hardwire networking. Mine sure as hell isn't -
   early 50s concrete and actual wood and shit plus
   I have outbuildings.

   My easiest/cheapest solution was wifi extenders/repeaters.
   Many make them, they DO work and aren't very hard to set up.
   Increase your range, 'get around corners'. Not as fast
   as Cat-6, but still very useful. If you have multiple
   servers, bunch them together and, if needed, hardwire
   THOSE together.

   Right NOW I'm only running one extender, but I have a
   fairly good proper desktop in a back room that I have
   not used in over a year. Fast with lots of storage.
   Love ASUS boards. Now I can bring that out of the
   back room (though really NO room out front) and use
   hardwire to some other boxes OR deploy another
   extender and 'get around the corners'. At The Office
   days I had a large closet with half a dozen boxes
   full of drives and the whole place was hardwired.
   Now retired, nope. However I don't NEED twenty+
   high-terabyte drives for my personal stuff and
   don't have to please a big office full of people
   who expect EVERYTHING to be "instant".