[57north-discuss] Space Wi-Fi + Wired Network (aka please donate some Unifi APs)

Hi, There have been complaints about the wi-fi in the space not being very good. The area of the space is quite a bit larger than the average house that the tiny router was intended to cover. Instead, we could deploy some Unifi access points throughout the space to give better coverage and better spectrum utilisation (using lower power to talk to the AP nearest to you). I've got one access point to put into the space, but ideally we would like 2 or 3. If we got more then we could start covering more of the room that we are in, potentially even giving coverage to people outside the front door which has been requested by those that don't have keys. Thanks to Ana for working with me one afternoon to take apart the ceiling and stick some Ethernet in it, we now have a new rack between the radio desk and the multimedia(?) desk that has wired Ethernet. We've also run patches to the switch in the desk and to the laser printer. Moving PiMPD onto the wired Ethernet would save some bandwidth as streaming music probably does jam up the channel a bit. Everything is there ready for this to happen but I don't know how PiMPD is configured so I didn't touch it. I will add a static IP for the laser printer and get that added to the wiki so that it's super easy (and reliable) to print from wherever you are in the space. Thanks, Iain.