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Not true. I am in a 1920s house, all plaster walls and ceilings. Hot spot on floor 1 is just fine on 2nd floor, attic, and basement. Only dead spot is when the brick chimney is in the line of sight of the hot spot. House has wood lath, if that's what makes the difference.
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Originally Posted by Bungalove
Nope, wood lath isn't necessary. My 1959 house is all plaster over either plasterboard or brick. The Wifi connection is in the concrete and brick basement, but I have no trouble accessing it anywhere in the house.
1920s house, no issues with wifi either. I heard metal lathe can cause issues, I have wood.
If you love your Wi-Fi, don't get plaster, unless you want an access point in nearly every room. The key is to not get THIN drywall.
We have over a 3000 square foot 1865 house and almost every room has lathe & plaster. Our wifi is in the southeast corner of the house and we can get the wifi EVERYWHERE in the living part of the house. (Never checked the basement or attic and it probably won't reach out to the garage either.)
My walls are all wood lath and plaster. When the cable guy hooked up the wifi, he said I might need boosters around the house, because of the plaster. But, I get a connection everywhere inside and even outside of the house; I have about a 200' range.
I really don't like drywall, I think its cheap crap. Lathe and plaster imo is a far superior material. I know drywall didn't come into common use until relatively recently. Do most older, pre-war homes still retain their plaster walls, or have they been replaced with drywall? I've only lived in one pre-war home, built in the 1920s, and it had drywall throughout.
Higher quality houses use blueboard and a plaster coat or in some cases wire lath and plaster. I do restoration plaster and have applied new wood lath and wire lath, I like wire lath better, but it's a bugger if you have to add switches or outlets after the fact. Ask me how I know.
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