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by r24y 1323 days ago
I work from home, in a home office with no sane way to route an Ethernet cable to, and I've been feeling the crunch during video calls. We have a wifi-enabled baby video monitor in a corner bedroom, and from my experience it's been proving "Rule 10: Your Wi-Fi network is only as fast as its slowest connected device" (see source [1]). My best-practice workflow has been to unplug the camera before an important video call.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/the-ars-technica-sem...

1 comments

It's worth trying a good powerline networking adapter if you haven't tried already! I've used a bunch of them and they are much much faster and more reliable than wifi.
That (realistically) requires you to have coax cabling in the walls already, or be willing to snake them through, right? Whereas powerline is where you're working already