2019-06-18, 21:45
More ideas:
avoid wifi extenders (really bring down throughput badly)
Avoid powerline based wifi-APs. that just adding insult to injury.
APs from companies who are big in the consumer market may be more likely to have worked out wifi quirks to be compatible with most consumer equipment. In my experience, they did even better at that than professional only WiFi APs (how many support calls do those get to make work with internet radios, TV sets, and other wifi connected home-stuff).
Testing testing testing. There are nice wifi testing apps for phones, so you can roam the home and see how high connection speed is, check roaming if you have multiple APs, and so on.
If you measure throughput X to one client, and the client needs X/4 bandwidth to stream, don't expect that you can stream in parallel to 4 of these clients. Not even to 3. As soon as you stream simultaneously to multiple clients, your safe aggregate bandwidth goes down.
Be sure to check the connection rates of all clients to minimize issues. Ideally, all clients should connect at equal, highest speed.
Different APs have differently good/bad GUI to troubleshoot/monitor whats going on. I am fairly happy with Unifi APs for this.
WiFi drivers/software can suck. Always have another highest-speed USB3 wifi stick to compare and diagnose whether problems/speeds come from the clients built-in wifi.
Good luck
avoid wifi extenders (really bring down throughput badly)
Avoid powerline based wifi-APs. that just adding insult to injury.
APs from companies who are big in the consumer market may be more likely to have worked out wifi quirks to be compatible with most consumer equipment. In my experience, they did even better at that than professional only WiFi APs (how many support calls do those get to make work with internet radios, TV sets, and other wifi connected home-stuff).
Testing testing testing. There are nice wifi testing apps for phones, so you can roam the home and see how high connection speed is, check roaming if you have multiple APs, and so on.
If you measure throughput X to one client, and the client needs X/4 bandwidth to stream, don't expect that you can stream in parallel to 4 of these clients. Not even to 3. As soon as you stream simultaneously to multiple clients, your safe aggregate bandwidth goes down.
Be sure to check the connection rates of all clients to minimize issues. Ideally, all clients should connect at equal, highest speed.
Different APs have differently good/bad GUI to troubleshoot/monitor whats going on. I am fairly happy with Unifi APs for this.
WiFi drivers/software can suck. Always have another highest-speed USB3 wifi stick to compare and diagnose whether problems/speeds come from the clients built-in wifi.
Good luck
