I put mine on top of my fridge's cupboard, near the electrical box.
Where do you put yours to get maximum range and still look nice?
Where Do You Put Your Wireless Router?
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Headboard is too far away to get the full benefit of those sweet sweet health-enhancing WiFi rays.
I put mine under my pillow to get a good dose during the night. The heated pillow is an added bonus in winter.
the distraction from blinking leds makes me last longer
I carry mine in my pocket so I don't knock up my friend.
I put mine where the phone jack is.
yep, no other real choice for us.
.I got my electrician to make a new phone jack to the fridge's cupboard.
Middle of the house next to the stairs so it does upstairs and down. I would put it up on top of a bookcase but the kitties would probably chew the aerials on the way through.
Mines runs off 4G so I have it placed near the window closest to the tower.
Underneath my cat, apparently…
Man, that sounds like my entire house.
If it not for sits, why it made of warms?
You sound like someone who has spent time pulling the cat hair out of their computer too.
@try2bhelpful: Despite her most adorable pleading, I exercise strict discipline with SeƱorita Dreamyface. Although that doesn't stop her waiting for hours smooshed up against the door to my office.
But you're not wrong. Her teeny tiny hairs still piggyback their way in on my clothes. Every so often my laser mouse pointer suddenly slows to a stutter. I have a pair of jeweller's tweezers on the desk ready to retrieve the nigh invisible intruding hair from the laser port.
Some of my clothes have a very high affinity for fur while others shrug it off. I have one black hoody in particular with an undercoat of cotton and an overcoat of chocolate Burmese.
Little Miss still gets pampered during TV time. Scooped up from my door, cuddled like a baby and carted to the couch, body slammed (gently) to my lap, and receives a full body spa including remedial massage, scapulae adjustment, spinal process manipulation, 18 toe and foot pad squishing, ear itching, occipitofrontalis release, face detail, rheum removal, chin scratching and belly zhuzhing.
But don't think for a minute this is a free-loader relationship. HRH reciprocates by treating me to a full body exfoliation using a small pink licker of wet Velcro which continues until the skin bleeds or the licker goes limp like a warm moist anchovy. <3
@Scrooge McDuck: I hear ya with the hair problems…
Here's a pic of her in position after making some slight 'adjustments' to the layout of my desk.
@Scrooge McDuck: Love your writing style.
You are so right about some clothing - generally all the black stuff is covered in ginger hair. Given I live in Fitzroy I have a LOT of black clothing.
I'm amazed you can keep her out of the office - mine appear to be able to Teleport through locked doors.
Tummy rubs seem to have a direct link to the purr mechanism. What I love is the sheer look of bliss on the face of a contented cat.
@try2bhelpful: You need to get some sacrificial honeypot clothes. That's the purpose of my previously black hoody.
I know exactly what you mean! In years gone by, if I wanted to take any food into my office I would need to perform an elaborate dance of plate balancing, door opening, kitty carrying, running away, hand washing, careful door closing and emotional blackmail resisting. Once complete I would let out a sigh of relief as I faced the closed door. But my supposed solitude was often short lived as I turned around to find Shinobi comfortably nested atop my desk chair watching me with body language asking, "Are we ready to do some work now?"
But Little Chocolate Princess has been slowing down lately. :'(
@Scrooge McDuck: Entertaining reading, as always. Our two little ones are 2.5 year old Somali siblings and the place is like a zoo. We have a converted warehouse, with the original beams, and they are like the flying monkeys from the wizard of Oz. We have put together some Ikea hacks, (offset shelves, old carpet attached to the shelves, etc) that allows the girls to make there way up to the second storey levels at various parts of the house and a running shelf between a couple of book cases. Keeps them quite fit and is immensely entertaining. We keep telling them that vet bills are expensive but it doesn't seem to stop them.
I do understand what you mean by the slowing down, our last girl got very sick, by the end, and it was heart breaking to watch. My view is you owe them a good life and a good death. However, may your little one have many good years ahead of her. OUr experience is that they tend to perk up in Summer with the warmth in their bones.
Khajiit has Wifi, if you have coin.
Inside my fridge.
I have two mounted on the ceiling in different points in the house
On the ceiling? How?
Using mounting brackets or the mounting holes on the modem.
My wifi APs come with mounting brackets. They look like an additional smoke alarm on the ceiling.
How do you manage wiring?
inside ceiling space
Fished through the wall and into ceiling- network cable plugs into bottom of device which sits on ceiling and looks like a smoke alarm- it all goes back into a cabinet in my garage which is the real brains of the operation.
On the corner of the tv cabinet (our networking point is next to the tv aerial point)
Did you get a good range? I heard putting inside the cabinet is not good.
Not inside the cabinet - on top of it next to the tv - I live in an apartment so yes the range is good - not a huge space.
routers in the garage, ubiquiti access point in centre of the house
Is that how ubiquiti works? If that so I might get one myself.
But isn't wireless extender degrades the speed somewhat?
nah not an extender, a wired access point
Oh so there is Ethernet cable connected to your router. Why not just place your router there?
Underneath the Christmas tree. I had to move things around and couldn't be bothered to replace the cable with a longer one.
Inside microwave.
Good question. In our new build, Clipsal recommended putting all NBN and other ports in the garage. It's a two storey town house. Any others done this?
Currently, modem is on cupboard in lounge room.
Garages can get HOT depending on the layout of your house. Dusty too. I would avoid putting it in your garage. I have mine in my top shelf in my walk in robe and then have a Ubiquiti Wireless Access Point in the centre of the house.
I have this in my 3 storey townhouse.
I installed a network cabinet above nbn cabinet and then cables to some wifi APs on ceiling through the house.
We have all the NBN stuff, modem and printer in the cupboard under the stairs.
Thanks for the replies. Very helpful.
I use a mesh network. Linksys Velops. One in the main cupboard (where my FTTP connection is), one in the kitchen and one in the theater room. Works very well.
Mine is up a pole outside the house. I run 2 ubiquiti access points inside
i recently mapped out the WiFi strength of all the rooms in my house using NetGear's Genie app (works with any router, doesnt have to be Netgear) - i recommend everyone determining best spot for router do this.
Additionally, as a little PSA, the way WiFi antennae work (if your router has movable ones) is they amplify the signal as a donut around the shaft of the antenna stick (and not shooting it out of the tip, like a pointed finger). So keep that in mind when arranging your antennae.
there is also an app called wifi analyser in android.
ASUS RT68U in the garage (FTTP / NBN), plugged in a 4 port switch to supply ethernet downstairs.
Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC Pro upstairs study room. Had a electrician come to run Cat5e cables from upstairs to the garage, was a pain but worth it.Why not using cat6?
There was a additional cost and the electrician did not stock any Cat6 cables. My existing Ethernet wiring (done by the builder) was all Cat5.
I wanted to future-proof by using Cat6 but then again i won't be investing in 10Gigabit switches soon.
I see. I thought Cat5e and cat6 is only fractionally more.
Default TPG modem router at one end of the house where the cable comes in and a Netgear Nighthawk X6 R8000 router at other end of the house connected via Ethernet cable not wirelessly but same ssid and password everything so the devices automatically get the strongest single which ever side of the house they are in.
At my house its next to the fttp modem. At parents I run a cable through the ceiling to the other end of the house and run a seperate access point
in the centre of wifi usage area of your house
my huawei router looks like pixel phone so no need to hide
just let it stood on top of my bed headboard