but means you'll need wires between buildings

I'd use some of the more affordable but still decent ASUS ZenWifi router packages with wired backhaul, I'm currently using an AX6600 setup with dedicated wireless backhaul channel for the two sides of my large floorplan bungalow but when I move will probably run some cable and go wired, its a lot more reliable and will definitely be needed between buildings. Before that I had an AC1900 setup and it was pretty good, just didn't quite have the wifi range and reliability without a dedicated channel for backhaul, so I sold it to the MiL. Don't even bother trying to use WiFi 6 for backhaul it doesn't have the range, 5Ghz band is as good as it gets.

Echoing above, I always go wired unless I have no option, a good quality CAT 7 (or whatever latest is) Will last a decade or 2. Cable is so cheap you might as well just sling 2/3/4 in an armoured sleeve for redundancy, or to use for CCTV etc, you can also then fish cables down the sleeve to upgrade/add more cables between sites in the future.

Takes work but is 100% worth the effort.

hi, welcome back :-)

I'd forget about mesh and just fit a bunch of access points?

what kind of distance between the buildings etc. ?

what kind of starlink speed are they getting?

I've fitted a few of these at work https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234892635332 and a bunch of the older ones (same thing, bit slower)

power over ethernet so no worrying about power where I need it

I like them, piece of cake to setup, good coverage, decent speed etc. etc.

but means you'll need wires between buildings

I have had the  1st Gen Acer X34 for a while but it has been progressively getting worse with it cutting out to black, green fuzzy lines and so on.
Not a wash with money so been on the hunt for a replacement for a few months and there was a 30% off and bought this:
https://www.lg.com/au/it-monitors/lg-34gn850-b

Images:
https://imgur.com/a/W1Ptm8E

Still working on the desk setup and cables etc. My wife uses my old Macbook Pro when working from home, I sometimes need to work at home and use my Macbook Pro as well as the PC.
I found the HDMI and wife's laptop not pushing enough pixels so have cables / adapters coming to sort that.

Not fully sorted cable management and currently sorting and cleaning the office as well.

I am keeping the Acer because it may be based on an issue I have found common online. Some of the capacitors / chips become faulty and cause current issues / display issues. I can keep my eye out for a broken screen going cheap and buy it and swap the parts over and then hook the other up as well.

I doubt you will have to pay for the returns seeing as you told them to hold the order as you wanted to make some changes. Maybe they will even do a collection on delivery arrangement (that's what I would do if I was still in the game)

Quote from: knighty on June 10, 2023, 15:40:38 PM

yep... a few tech type shows come up on my youtube feed regularly... it's all RGB... who gives a f**k about that?

there's less and less talk about performance/cooling, more and more about hot it looks :-(

We're all 40 or more, thus not the target audience anymore.

Noctua are pushing the airflow and technology, Corsair are all about the RGB and connectivity and the rest are all over the place.

At the end of the day though, these companies are making money having their stuff show up on tik tok's etc of peoples setups and so that is where the money is, that is where they are leaning too. As long as things are decently cooled people care more about having those dream desk setups now.
I am sure if we all did a thread here of our setup's most would be far removed from this, we are not the target audience and we care for the performance etc over the looks more than anything else.