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My house is solid brick walls throughout. My WiFi is awful in any room without an access point.



Brick walls don't block wifi that much - there's probably steel or concrete (or both) in your walls and floors. That kills wifi pretty good. In a traditional brick house you can get wifi coverage on 2.4 GHz, and for the most part 5 GHz as well, into the last nook and cranny with a single, well-placed AP.


There's definitely no steel in my house, however there is lime plaster which is somewhat similar to concrete.

I can get 2.4GHz fine, but it's pretty slow for a 1Gb/s connection. 5GHz only within the room of the AP in general (or the room immediately above/below, because the floors are just wood).


We in wall access points (eg Unifis) are great for room coverage, and there are Ethernet ports on them too, so they provide a convenient switch too.

However doing a whole house wouldn’t be cheap.


Unifis? Are they homeplugs? (Ethernet over Powerline)

Homeplugs are awesome. Used them in Singapore due to concret walls everywhere which made Wifi basically useless. Had them in every room for Wifi + Ethernet.


> Unifis? Are they homeplugs? (Ethernet over Powerline)

No, they are accesspoints

> Homeplugs are awesome

They CAN be awesome. Depends on the wireing. But if they work, they work well. I just had to replug mine every week or so but this weas a few years ago. I ethernet hardwire everything now as Im just in a small room.




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