How we turned our homes into offices and classrooms
Like many people, this year we were required to turn our homes into both offices and online classrooms. This puts a strain on a network designed to watch some Netflix and do some light web surfing. Here's a series of articles we produced along the way documenting the steps we took in the first few months to upgrade the network hardware in a number of houses. We offer it in hopes it might help you avoid the same mistakes, or finally achieve the good, reliable results we have.
The system that worked well for web surfing and movie watching is hampering our efforts to earn a living and educate our kids.
Plans to work around or change the gateway - modem/router from the cable / phone company
The most reliable way to distribute our home network is by wires.
Our oldest, slowest laptop and tablets cause traffic jams and slow our system. Let’s concentrate on them first.
Using the other wires in our house for our network - cable TV wiring and electrical wiring carrying internet.
Before we get crazy buying $900 routers, let’s calculate how much network speed we truly need.
After testing the concept on the cheap, we see internet signals can move through our power lines at a very rapid rate.
After the easy pickings of a fiber optic phone company household, we begin to upgrade a cable TV internet supplied house.
An investment in our own cable modem, buying a mesh WiFi system, but with a backhaul through house wiring.
Calculating the costs of upgrading our emergency home office classroom internet system with bailing wire and duct tape.
We get busy learning how to inject cell phone internet service into our home networks.
A little, inexpensive router acts like a backup generator and kicks-in when we lose our main internet service.
Reaching a point where we feel we can declare victory (for a while, anyway) in our efforts to build home internet offices / classrooms.
Products incorporating the WiFi 6e standard were introduced in January of 2021. Can they help our home office / classrooms?
Your WiFi and Cell Phone
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We had moved to reliance on ethernet, and away from our mesh WiFi system. It had declined rapidly, but we didn't notice.
Xfinity went down and our backup got really cranky, so we went on the hunt for a simple, easy way to change our internet source.
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