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   On 12/9/25 06:57, Andy Burns wrote:   
   > The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >    
   >> might be dependent on where I parked the car   
   >    
   > Monitoring within the appliance bays of multiple fire stations,    
   > certainly shows signal levels exhibiting high and low levels depending    
   > whether the truck is in or out ...   
      
      Wi-Fi is sometimes just black magic ...   
      
      Simply just moving things just a couple of   
      inches oft makes an unreasonable difference.   
      
      2.4 tends to have better range indoors   
      than 5ghz - making up for the lower xfer   
      rate by being Reliable.   
      
      5G phone can be just as spooky.   
      
      6G phone ... I saw somewhere that a theoretical   
      'dynamic signal steering' tech might help - but   
      real-world that's still to be seen.   
      
      Robots ... with current tech they will depend on   
      being able to connect their tiny AIs to a BIG AI   
      somewhere else so they can do much more. BUT, if   
      6G is horrible, then what ?   
      
      If monitoring 'emergency vehicles/installations'   
      is critical, maybe consider something using lower   
      frequencies than wi-fi ??? In USA I think there's   
      a designated comm space in the 400mhz band. It'd   
      still be good enough for a 1-fps camera feed.   
      
      Ah ... POTENTIAL cheap solution. Haven't fooled   
      with it in about 10 years but I think it's still   
      possible with Linux. Just buy one of those wi-fi   
      extender/repeater thingies (about $50 USD) and   
      put it not far from the main router. Make it   
      wlan1. At least with wpasupplicant and dhcpcd.conf   
      you could designate an automatic "fall over" in   
      case the main signal got crappy. Not 100% sure   
      what happens now with apps if you list a wlan0 and   
      wlan1 at the same time - will the app just use   
      whichever, or both, without complaints ???   
      
      Between the two, 'shadow' areas ought to largely   
      go away.   
      
      Pity nobody makes a 5ghz "viewer" so you can   
      get at least a fuzzy picture of the signal at   
      different places  :-)   
      
      I have a repeater to reach an out-building. Gonna   
      try to add it as wlan1 just to see what happens ...   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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