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On 10/12/2025 02:19, c186282 wrote:
> If monitoring 'emergency vehicles/installations'
>  ÿ is critical, maybe consider something using lower
>  ÿ frequencies than wi-fi ??? In USA I think there's
>  ÿ a designated comm space in the 400mhz band. It'd
>  ÿ still be good enough for a 1-fps camera feed.
> 
465Mhz.
Its equally shit really.
I ought to resurrect 27MHz.. that is still free-ish

>  ÿ Ah ... POTENTIAL cheap solution. Haven't fooled
>  ÿ with it in about 10 years but I think it's still
>  ÿ possible with Linux. Just buy one of those wi-fi
>  ÿ extender/repeater thingies (about $50 USD) and
>  ÿ put it not far from the main router. Make it
>  ÿ wlan1. At least with wpasupplicant and dhcpcd.conf
>  ÿ you could designate an automatic "fall over" in
>  ÿ case the main signal got crappy. Not 100% sure
>  ÿ what happens now with apps if you list a wlan0 and
>  ÿ wlan1 at the same time - will the app just use
>  ÿ whichever, or both, without complaints ???
> 
Depends how they are set up.

>  ÿ Between the two, 'shadow' areas ought to largely
>  ÿ go away.
> 
>  ÿ Pity nobody makes a 5ghz "viewer" so you can
>  ÿ get at least a fuzzy picture of the signal at
>  ÿ different placesÿ ?
> 
Well they do. Its called a smart phone.

If te phone has 5Ghz wifi then a wifi sniffer app shows all.

>  ÿ I have a repeater to reach an out-building. Gonna
>  ÿ try to add it as wlan1 just to see what happens ...

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oppressors."
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