That’s strange. Please let me know what you find out.

This is a great idea, thank you!

I had issues searching for Lemmy communities until I updated my docker-compose to give the “lemmy” container it’s own network.

https://lemmy.austinwadeheller.com/comment/14247

Oh, so you have a main router for internet traffic (wifi access for extended router and other devices) and another router extended from it that both your VR headset and PC connect to for VR-type data communication, still providing internet to the PC with about half the bandwidth?

I was having issues searching as well until I added a network to the docker-compose and then adding it to my lemmy image.

networks:
  lemmybridge:

services:
  lemmy:
    networks:
      - lemmybridge

I feel like a good name around me would be “FreePublicWifi”. Can you get in trouble for naming it something like “[city name]WifiNetwork”?

That sounds promising. Thanks for the numbers. I’m planning to put the second router under their rooms, so I would think that one set of flooring shouldn’t be too bad.

Your setup sounds very interesting to me. If I wasn’t so obsessed with writing code, I would have been deep into hardware. I imagine that it will become a hobby of mine when I hit my midlife crisis. I’ll be buying up all kinds of hardware, quiting my job, and connecting everything to everything.

Thanks for confirming my suspicion. I appreciate the link too.

I assume you had a hardline from the VR router to the central router? Otherwise wouldn’t the wireless communication between the VR router and the central router be in the same competition as the VR headset was before?

Maybe for Halloween, I could be “Internet Man”.

I bet it’s compatible and they don’t get punished for lying. All they have to say is “Oh, it looks like it IS compatible after all.”

That’s an interesting idea. How do you access the router connected to the ISP to setup port forwarding to your second router? If it’s too complicated to type out here, I’ll understand.

That would be a great thing to setup at an airport (somewhere people sit around for hours, bored). So long as it’s done to advertise your music and not to be malicious. I’m assuming your music isn’t “Nails on a chalkboard” or “A baby crying”, that could both be music and malicious.

I’ll look into that, thanks.

That makes sense. I just hope that it’s good enough for YouTube.

If we can at least do that (do simple web crawling and watching YouTube), that’d be enough for me. Thanks for sharing your experience.

I’m legit scared to put holes in my walls; I’m afraid that I’ll make a hole, realize that I can’t use the hole (blocked, pipes in the way, etc.), and now I have a hole in my wall. I’m far more likely to pay someone else to do it - but I will at least watch a video on the topic, just to see if maybe it’s easier than I think it is.

I hope it’s not too terrible, purely over wifi. Maybe when my son gets older and wants to play games on his own computer, I’ll pipe a line over to the other side of the house for him. I don’t think his sister is going to care enough about computers to want a direct line to the internet, but if she does then I’ll do it for her too.

My kids would be the ones benefiting from the range extender and they’d only be watching YouTubeKids on their tablets. I don’t think they’d notice any issues with latency assuming that the buffer is able to load faster than the videos play. Thoughts?