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We have always had issues with the wifi coverage in our house. The FritzBox modem / router / wifi is located on one side of the house where the telephone line enters the house. Already on the other end of the house the reception is bad if you are sitting in the corner; outside in the garden there is no reception whatsoever. Now, I could have bought a wifi repeater which would in all probability have done the job; but I have always been curious about networking technology and was also interested in getting s
I still want to keep the FritzBox — it is a reliable modem with great reporting of the DSL state and we use the seamless combination of landline (I know, we are dinosaurs) and VOIP via SIP. Once you start with this it is really hard to stop. I early on decided that I didn't need the "cloud key" which is basically a very simple small computer with their admin software running on it. Instead I just used a raspberry pi I had lying around and installed the software there (Following Howard Durdle's post on using