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   The Natural Philosopher to All   
   Re: More on wifi range - Pi PICO W Oil l   
   10 Dec 25 11:29:02   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 10/12/2025 10:29, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 12/10/25 04:47, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
      
   >> I ought to resurrect 27MHz.. that is still free-ish   
   >   
   >    It can be good for some stuff, alas not IP   
   >    cams and other higher-bandwidth devices.   
   >   
   Yeah. You can get maybe 50kbps out of 27MHz Probably enough fir a very   
   low res cam.,   
      
   >    Hmmm ... maybe 300 Hz ? Goes everywhere !   
   >   
   Short to medium wave the best, as used in ADSL.   
      
      
   >>>    Pity nobody makes a 5ghz "viewer" so you can   
   >>>    get at least a fuzzy picture of the signal at   
   >>>    different places  🙂   
   >>>   
   >> Well they do. Its called a smart phone.   
   >   
   >    "Bars" ??? How CRUDE !  :-)   
   >   
      
   Er no, Not bars.   
      
   https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=abdelrahman.wifianalyzerpro   
      
   >    I wanna SEE colors on the walls.   
   >   
   Take more LSD   
      
      
   >    DID add a wlan1 ... but, as was, not really useful.   
   >    You could connect to one, or the other, but there's   
   >    no inherent fail-over. Apparently there IS some   
   >    software, and/or evil config/iptables, fixes ...   
   >    but kinda icky.   
   >   
   No,. it just needs setting up.   
   I looked into ot and decided life was too shoryt   
      
   >    What we WANT is for a device connection to use   
   >    the BEST signal - whether that's the primary   
   >    router or an extender - and switch back and   
   >    forth automatically depending on the connection   
   >    quality. Looks like it CAN be done ... but ....   
   >   
   Yes. unfortunately that is not how *most* wifi works   
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