"The Natural Philosopher"  wrote in message
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>> Personally powerline is evil, generates broad band radio frequency
>> interference. Tell her that the Pi has limited storeage and that if
>> she wants to watch recordings of 
>> the hole is required.
>>
> Powerline works for one point to point. It sucks big time at adding more
> connections

Is it worse than wifi in that respect? I've had fairly good multi-user
performance on powerline, whereas wifi, even with devices right next to the
router, is atrocious on my laptop, my pi and my desktop, especially if more
than one is talking.

Am I right that two devices talking to each other via wifi and the router
(both devices wif rather than Ethernet) will be significantly slower than
one device by wifi and one by Ethernet, because both devices are competing
for bandwidth?

What about wifi extenders (either dedicated or an old router in bridge
mode). Even if there is only one device talking to the router (eg to the
internet), is the performance worse (half?) if the wifi is connected to the
extension rebroadcasted wifi than if it's connected directly to the router's
own wifi?

For an extension network, is the best advice to give the extension a
*different* SSID to the router's wifi (eg "ROUTER_EXT") and to give it a
*different*, non-overlapping channel? I've seen advice to put both networks
on the *same* channel which I'd have thought would cause interference
between the two.

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