Serious Gamer 'Upstairs' and No Ethernet - What to Do?

[allanc]

I see it now! You have to select airmax, the default view is only showing airmax ac

Yup, just found them too!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I have seen the Pico mentioned in these forums a number of times.
However, I cannot find any reference to them at https://www.ubnt.com.
What am I missing?

They are still there..
https://www.ubnt.com/airmax/picostationm/

When viewing product line, Pico is under "AirMax"....when on AirMax..the primary page is the newer "AirMax AC" line, but click on the "AirMax" link to the right and you see the non-AC models.

While the Pico is the most powerful indoor/outdoor AP out there..and we install a whole crapload of many different Ubiquiti products (it's our main wireless product) .I still don't recommend wireless for gaming. Been there, done that, tried a kajillion different products. Fast action/paced first person shooters and air combat sims don't like wireless.

 

[allanc]

They are still there..
https://www.ubnt.com/airmax/picostationm/

When viewing product line, Pico is under "AirMax"....when on AirMax..the primary page is the newer "AirMax AC" line, but click on the "AirMax" link to the right and you see the non-AC models.

While the Pico is the most powerful indoor/outdoor AP out there..and we install a whole crapload of many different Ubiquiti products (it's our main wireless product) .I still don't recommend wireless for gaming. Been there, done that, tried a kajillion different products. Fast action/paced first person shooters and air combat sims don't like wireless.

Got that.
I ordered one kit of the TP-Link AV1200 and it will arrive Monday.
However, I would like to keep one additional AV1200 and PICO in stock and try them out for different circumstances.

 

[glennd]

Got that.
I ordered one kit of the TP-Link AV1200 and it will arrive Monday.
However, I would like to keep one additional AV1200 and PICO in stock and try them out for different circumstances.

is this what you ordered?
http://www.tp-link.com.au/products/details/TL-PA8010P-KIT.html
i'll be interested to know how you get on with it.

 

[allanc]

is this what you ordered?
http://www.tp-link.com.au/products/details/TL-PA8010P-KIT.html
i'll be interested to know how you get on with it.

Almost. I ordered the model with the 3 ports.
I will post an update once it is installed.

 

[Krilus]

This, if the house is only a few years old I would think the phone jack in his room is actually Cat5e. If that doesn't pan out I would try to sell the client on running Cat 5e/Cat 6 from the basement, folks do it for satellite all the time. Thats probably easy for me to say as I do it all the time, may not be your skillset tho.

Thinking in a different direction...

Often phone jacks are just CAT5 with only four of the lines terminated.

It may be possible that there is a line running to his room in the form of a phone jack.

You could convert that phone jack into ethernet jack.


Alternatively, move the 20-year-old to the basement for his gaming rig.

It's actually not a bad way of testing to make sure that it's not there WAN connection that's the problem.

 

[Markverhyden]

Almost. I ordered the model with the 3 ports.
I will post an update once it is installed.

Looking forward to the update. Personally I've never used those types of devices. But I have been in many sites that had those solutions. None that had the throughput requirements of gaming but did work for the task at hand.

 

[allanc]

This, if the house is only a few years old I would think the phone jack in his room is actually Cat5e. If that doesn't pan out I would try to sell the client on running Cat 5e/Cat 6 from the basement, folks do it for satellite all the time. Thats probably easy for me to say as I do it all the time, may not be your skillset tho.

Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, the client's wife says 'No' to running Ethernet.

 

[allanc]

Yes. Attach it to the ceiling in the basement.

I don't remember exactly what is exposed in his basement.
Did you mean literally to the ceiling or can it be to a beam?
With the type of antennae on a PICO does the orientation of the antennae (horizontal, vertical, upside down, etc.) matter?
Also, I assume that with the router supplied by the ISP or the consumer grade LinkSys, etc. that I will need a POE adapter to attach to the router, correct?
Sorry about the basic questions.

 

[allanc]

I apologize for the extended lack of posting on this thread but the client was on vacation.
I installed the TP-Link TL-PA8030P KIT this morning.
Installation/configuration was a breeze and apparently the son does not need any port forwarding for his games.
I ran a continuous ping to google.com for a few minutes and the response time was 13-14 ms.
The son said his games have never run so well!
It is now several hours later and no complaints via Email or telephone.
Thanks to all who suggested the TP-Link PowerLine ... it worked as advertised.
BTW - due to impatience on the part of the client - I did not remove the face-plate from the telephone jack to see if there was any available wiring.