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Would you like an article on improving a home network? Poll is created on Oct 25, 2024

Yes, that would be helpful

Interested enough to start reading it, jury's out as to whether I'd finish it.

No, I'm sleepy enough as it is. Not interested.

A bit of a straw poll about device connectivity

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Majordennisbloodnok

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Topic starter 25/10/2024 2:32 pm [#1802]

As you are likely aware, I recently provided a series of articles about home automation. The idea was to provide some insights into how to bring your heat pump, solar PV, EV charger and other disparate pieces of smart kit together into one cohesive home solution. I've had some positive feedback from all that, but it also got me thinking.

Whatever kit we're bringing together, it all relies in one way or another on being able to talk with the Internet, and in many cases that means whatever our broadband provider installed. In essence, we spend perhaps 5 figures on kit to heat and power our home and then channel quite a bit of its functionality through a £50 router that our ISP gave us "free" as part of the broadband installation.

Speaking personally, I chose to invest a bit in a more robust home network infrastructure and have never regretted it. However, is that a topic many forum members would find of interest? It's certainly starting to stray quite a bit from the core focus of this site and may well therefore be a bit too arcane to warrant an article. However, it's also technology we all of us use, so perhaps it's worth discussing.

I leave it to you, therefore, to decide. @editor has said that if I write such an article he'll publish it, but if I did so would you be interested or quickly skip past?

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Toodles

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25/10/2024 4:08 pm

Yes indeed Major! We have a 1930’s built brick construction and found that pushing wifi signals around the whole house warranted a MESH network, so we have a router and FIVE more nodes. Yes a good subject network kit - why not? Changing from Virginontherediculous to Zen Internet next month here. Regards, Toodles.

Toodles, heats his home with cold draughts and cooks food with magnets.

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