PING - other than some sort of measure of latency, just another thing in my lack of knowledge bucket.
I do know I’ve never seen the great low numbers I read about. I think it has something to do with my IP. Even though I’m aimed at a tower just over a mile away, my internet seems to think I’m on the mainland, usually California. Annoying as he 11 to attempt a quick log on to HD and read that I’m connected to the Huntington, Ca store for example. When I was trying the Verizon & Visible sims my pings were around 200. Really hopeful that Starlink is better.
I initially set up my Unifi AP’s just scattered about the house, inside where I had an ethernet connection. Saw decent wifi performance. I thought once configured I could easily just move to permanent location. Wrong.
I’m sitting in living room maybe 20ft straightline from one AP mast mounted, but I can’t get the signal through the metal roof. A second AP is mast mounted 90° to my right maybe 40ft. I can see base of mast through window but apparently it won’t pass through the roof either. Both I can stand outside and connect so long as no obstruction between me and AP. The mast mounted wireless AP at tractorshed sees neither, nor can I connect to either from that location. Frustrating in that I can see my non Unifi, albeit very weak from there. The main reason for the Unifi is to get a strong signal to that location. Guess I need to learn more about the radio/channels/strength. I’m a bit frustrated that this mast mounted external performs worst than my interior based network than lives in concrete walled, metal roofed structures.
