I have an issue. Im gonna get company paid WiFi (wu hu!) but the fiber box going to my living room. About 8 meters and a wall away from my servers. It is not possible to run an Ethernet cable. My current internet is coax 1000Mbit and is right by my servers.
I am considering using either my current mesh setup which will be:
Nokia beacon 1:
Router → Ethernet → beacon mesh → beacon 1 → Ethernet → server.
This first solution might give like 300mbit
Second option:
Buying 2 beacon 2 (WiFi 6)
Router → Ethernet → beacon 2 (wifi6) → beacon 2 (wifi6) → Ethernet → server.
I’m hoping this can get close to 1000mbit
Or get WiFi 6e access points
Or get WiFi 7 access points.
Keep in mind I got many nodes in my 3 servers and get a lot of traffic like you all do these days.
What is my path forward? Is it doomed to fail? Should I at all cost get Ethernet ( really really not possible).
Thanks in advance
Please ask if questions and please try to stay on topic
wifi will add very huge latency. also theoretically you can get near gigabit but in practical you have neibors also that occupies part of frequencies. even it it very low signal from them it will work like noise. there is always a way to put cable, just need to think how. for second connection i made this.
You could try it and see how it goes. I appreciate LAN cable struggles. Ideally you would figure out how to run one. Perhaps run it outside. That bypasses a lot of obstacles.
I’d wait after it’s installed, then you could probably use a router as a client inside the server room and check the performance. If it’s only 8m away it’ll be fine. A couple additional ms of latency won’t hurt. Remember there are people hosting nodes behind VPN/VPS incurring tens of ms and they seem to be fine.
Is there a coax connection from the server room to the fiber box? You could use MOCA.
If you have many nodes already: would they pay to keep your old Internet too? Stick with what you know works for your servers… and use the new WiFi for everything else?
I’ve never had a problem running some Cat5/OM3 down the sides of halls and around corners… but perhaps you live with someone that won’t approve. Remember if you have to cross a hall and don’t want a cable on the floor… you can often go up and around doorframes instead.
And fiber is thin and unobtrusive: grab 30m, some clear packing tape to strategically hold it, and go to town!
So… maybe it doesn’t matter? Maybe you have continuous 100Mb/s bandwidth from storj. Wifi can still handle that. And sure it adds latency, but the latency from the wifi is less than the latency from the rest of the internet or from an overloaded hard disk. It may not be noticeable.
That said, the ranking of general reliableness works like this:
I don’t have personal experience with moca or powerline, but anecdotes tell me that people have good and bad inconsistent experiences with them.
If you’re doing wifi, you want to close the longest gap between any two devices (client or mesh access points). And that longest link you want to be FAST devices (like, real access points and not the laptop or phone connection).
My house is shaped like a long rectangle with bad wifi across the length, I have two solutions in place.
For a basement room, I ran ethernet from my main house router in the crawlspace into the basement, then set up a ethernet switch and another wifi access point. It’s got 2.5Gb LAN and everything is great down there.
in a bedroom, I haven’t wanted/ been too lazy to try to run another ethernet run. But the desktop’s built in wifi was pretty weak. So I had a beefy Asus ‘gamer’ router with four antennae that I changed to bridge mode. That maintains the connection to my closest wifi AP, and then a 3 foot ethernet cable connects to my PC. this can actually manage 500mbps connecting to the wifi in the other room which is good enough.
My wifi adds maybe 1-2 ms of latency on average, though there is a long tail there. Curiously, my pair of TL-PA8010P has a latency of 5 ms minimum between each other, worse than wifi.
With WiFi there is only one problem - it’s not good for hundreds parallel transfers. Since there are several nodes, the latency and retries will be noticeable increased up to break the connection.
But only the experiment may show. It’s also highly depends on the router, some can handle, some not.
