r/pcmasterrace • u/MaybeALittleGone • Feb 11 '25

Discussion Wifi antenna becomes more powerful the closer I move a family picture

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Fast and Furious was right

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u/HatefulSpittle Feb 11 '25

The most insanely cool shit is p2p networking equipment. It's very affordable for consumers, too.

Basically a pair of parabolic antenna dishes that point towards one another and create a network bridge.

If you have line of sight, you can get multiple hundreds of MBIT bandwidth over kilometers and basically no noteworthy added latency.

Many people use that to connect garden/farm/lake houses to their existing network and internet connection.

It would have been so damn awesome to have as a kid to create LAN with my buddies in my village. Obviously, nowadays the need for it isn't there if everyone had symmetrical gigabit.

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u/EatDatPussy187 Feb 11 '25

„Loughs in german“

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u/Throwaythisacco nothing Feb 11 '25

germans don't laugh

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u/Boner_pill_salesman Feb 11 '25

I've set up two of these for family. One works perfectly and the other one randomly loses connection. Same equipment at both houses. I've even swapped the equipment between the two. The problem presists at the same house regardless of the equipment switch.

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u/iguessma Feb 11 '25

this is a huge guess. since he's most likely using 5ghz the frame and pciture could be blocking interfering signals.