I got to thinking about how my network is connected and realized that I don't have a way of reducing the outages or recording what has happened. I have a project that was supposed to tell me the condition of the WiFi connections at any one time, but I don't use that information in any sense. I also don't have a way for the front of the network to know what the back of the network is doing and vice versa. I don't have a graceful way to shut things down if the network fails from some external problem (mainly power outages which happen from time to time here). WiFi outages also happen from time to time but they are less important since the backend of my network is mainly for hobby purposes.
Fallover is not apparent in the current setup of my network. Is that important to me? It depends on what I am doing at the moment. If I am wood carving, not at all. If I am working on an electronic circuit, also not important. But if I am online how do I keep online without a problem. I could switch from one network type to another, but is that efficient? So a number of questions come to mind:
- first of all, what is missing from my network?
- how would the front fail as opposed to the middle and back?
- if the front goes down, how would I know?
- if the middle goes down how would I know?
- does it matter if the back is completely off?
- how can I keep my laptop in the back always available?
- is there a fall over that I can count on?
- can I log what is happening with the network? where?
- how does WiFi from other apartments into bedroom play into this?
- how do I detect how good of a connection I have?
- can I separate out living room from back bedroom?
- would it be profitable to switch AV2000s with a WiFi mesh connnection?
- could the AP-HD be used in a WiFi mesh configuration?
