Gigabit fibre and Wi-Fi 6
I might possibly just have mentioned that I have upgraded the internet connection to my house. For some years I’ve relied on a pair of FTTC ADSL connections from different suppliers. Although both have come to the house on the same multicore copper connection, this hasn’t proved to be the unreliable link. ISP failures, and failures in the local exchange, have caused more outage than the last 100m of copper.
But I needed more, and so have installed a fibre connection. It’s dark fibre back to the main lab network, and so I get 1Gbit/sec in and out. I decided to put it all onto one LAN, connecting both ends together. The big advantage is that everything is now accessible from both ends. In the future, I think I’ll segregate them into two subnets and then control the routing between them using the pfSense firewall. For the moment, it’s an interesting experience.
One side benefit is that I now have access to my home Roon server from the lab, so I can fire up the Roon client there, choose music and stream it to an endpoint. If I’m feeling evil, I can, of course, do this even when I’m not in the lab, and thus subject my team to some Peruvian nose flutes on a whim. Or Kajagoogoo.
The speed is superb. Full 1Gbit swoosh, and you simply wouldn’t know that there was some ten miles between the two ends. However, moving from a standard 80/20Mbits/ sec ADSL connection to a full fibre interconnect has justified changing price think