Thanks sharing this. What I can add:
Our house is a little bit bigger. It was formerly a farmhouse. It has a stone firewall between living room and formerly hay storage place. This firewall is quit good in blocking RF. My "production" network has 2 dual band APs. I have good indoor coverage. In summertime, I use WiFi in my garden to watch live TV (iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Android gear). It is partly testing, partly following Tour de France, news etc. My partner is less a geek and carries the TV, coax and power cables. Still possible with some analogue channels. Soon we have to carry a lot more stuff to decode DTV, this is bad. Or watch over WiFi. I don't want to CAT6 my garden, sorry. Walking from living room to desk to garden means AP switch-over. I used to have 2.4 and 5GHz SSIDs, this doesn't work well. With exact same SSID and keys, handover works. Not well, but it works. With different SSIDs and different IP subnets: no, total failure. There are WiFi AP kits around that operate in same channel and spoof AP BSSID. Roaming is transparent for clients. Nice idea, not accepted by standards bodies nor by industry. Back to my point: I want L3 on each and every homenet box. At the same time, I want high performance wireless links. It must be cheap, I don't want to pay € 1000 for a WLC and €400 for each AP. As long as homenet enlarges my WiFi problem, it is useless for me. And I thought I was candidate for early adoption, as I have multiple APs, a wired backbone, thinking of dual ISP links etc. And as geek, I want to pay a bit more for high performance and I am able to troubleshoot a bit. Back to the subject: What are the requirements of a high performance WiFi home network to the homenet routing protocol? I guess we don't know. Teco > Op 20 feb. 2015, om 13:17 heeft Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> het > volgende geschreven: > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Teco Boot wrote: > >> Do you have CAT6 to WiFi APs in every room? Can you share experience with >> moving WiFi devices? > > No, my apartment is covered by a single 5GHz AP in the center of the > apartment. > > I mainly use cabled connections for media players and similar devices since > they work much better over full duplex gige than over wifi. If I just could > go back to my 1ms RTT Internet access link, things would be a lot better > because my current DOCSIS3 cable connection is a lot worse (for instance when > it comes to RTT and PDV) than my previous connection I had at the previous > apartment which was a lot more consistent. > > I tend to use a CAT6 ethernet adapter in my laptop when I'm at my desk, even > though both my AP and laptop has 802.11ac. Wifi is mostly used to handle > mobile devices such as tablets and mobile phones. > > My experience is that even with state of the art equipment, wifi still is not > even close in quality of experience compared to cable, apart from very light > use where it's still sufficient. > > My experience with multiple APs (from other places) is that clients don't > switch APs easily enough so they're seldom connected to the optimal AP. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
