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The WiFi here has been pretty terrible for a while. Upgrading our internet speed at home made things better, but not great. Last year I ran a bunch of ethernet through the attic which did help overall, but performance over wireless was still badly lacking. I needed to reboot devices often and ASUS's documentation for their routers was, frankly, dogshit. The WiFi here has been pretty terrible for a while. Upgrading our internet speed at home made things better, but not great. Last year I ran a bunch of ethernet through the attic which did help overall, but performance over wireless was still badly lacking. I needed to reboot devices often and ASUS's documentation for their routers was, frankly, dogshit.
### Main Causes ### Main Causes
- Old equipment
#### Old equipment
- ASUS AX-92U (x2 in mesh) - ASUS AX-92U (x2 in mesh)
- Motorola Surfboard.. something (replaced prior to this project, but the routers gaslighted me into thinking the new modem was a problem...) - Motorola Surfboard.. something (replaced prior to this project, but the routers gaslighted me into thinking the new modem was a problem...)
#### Spaghetti network - Spaghetti network
- No VLANs - No VLANs
- No special firewall controls - No special firewall controls
- The 2.4GHz band is flooded with IoT devices - The 2.4GHz band is flooded with IoT devices
#### Mostly using free/cheap/used equipment - Mostly using free/cheap/used equipment
- This isn't changing THAT much... but now I have a 24-port PoE switch - This isn't changing THAT much... but now I have a 24-port PoE switch
## What to do? ## What to do?