Improvements in and around my home
I have known for a while that the brick walls in my house were likely to be my biggest barrier to decent wi-fi coverage, but I wasn’t really sure just how bad they were. A few years back I drew up my house in Visio and one of the tabs shows the whole house with…
The pair of Actiontec ECB6200 MoCA 2.0 network adapters actually arrived whilst I was writing the previous article, but as that one was becoming pretty lengthy, I decided to start a new one to cover off this topic. Now MoCA 2.0 does not play well with satellite signals, since it operates in the 1125-1675MHz frequency range that sits slap bang…
This post will show how i wired up my house for Satellite multi-room, but first some history. I have a number of satellite dishes on the side of my house, the first was installed around 1996 which was a 60cm dish for the Sky analog service on the Astra satellites at 19.2° East. I then…
Over the years I have had a number of network solutions in my house, most of which revolved around what equipment I had in my office space, especially in the pre wi-fi days. My internet has moved from a standard telephone line with a modem at 1440bps (or slower), through ISDN, ADSL and currently a…
Our front door is still the original one that was fitted to the house back in 1935, so we decided it was well overdue for an upgrade. There are some sizeable gaps for the wind to come in, thanks to the door warping over the years, plus the lock has been replaced a few times…