Thursday, February 13, 2014

Home Office Connectivity

An email I sent earlier this week that I thought should be shared with the wider group.


With the eventual move out of the BTC and a move next month into a new house (fingers crossed) I’ve been looking into ways to improve connectivity at home. Having a work laptop in the rear of the house and the Wifi router at the front of the house makes for a lot of signal interference. Connect to VPN and it’s kind of pointless. At the BTC we’ve been talking about the latest and greatest WIFI routers and range extenders but nothing beats a hard wire connection for dependability and overall throughput.

 

I found an article that addresses this in a relatively inexpensive way that I thought others might find helpful. The basic premise is use your house’s electrical wiring as network wiring. You plug one of the gadgets into the wall near your router and run an Ethernet cable to it. Plug another one into the wall near your laptop and run an Ethernet cable to that. No signal interference, no new wiring and you can add as many as you need.

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