Today the focus changed as I wanted to rebuild the wifi system. I have replaced on a like for like as the old units largely worked but there seemed to be something falling over.
So everything was powered down and a new base unit installed plus two new extension units. However the 2.4GHz band appears no more stable as the signal on the secondary units disappear. Previously the base unit was similar to the extensions and as there is a replacement in the post I will probably swap it all round again.
The signal in the study has reverted to the router and the streaming to the hifi has gone back to be intermittent – although the signal shows up as pretty solid on the phone display. I manage to test to streaming to the Chromecast and that held up for a good few minutes. Let us hope that happens when I use it seriously this evening.
Extricated from under the railway were five or six boxes of historic railway bits and pieces – far more than I can remember – but then they have been under the desk for a long time (and I can finally unplug the last old phone handset. Once I have been through the contents the boxes can go upstairs – but for the moment the floor of the study has vanished again under these boxes. There are a lot of kits which can probably be dumped.