In our house, we currently have "five" wireless LAN access points activated.
Our house is not a huge mansion, but an ordinary single-family house.
The reason why this is happening is because my family complains to me that 'the wireless LAN is not connected.
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As I've explained before, I don't believe in wireless LAN communication, especially for remote work, so I use LAN cables to connect all my devices.
Wireless causes "null points," which are points where wireless radio waves interfere and disappear regardless of distance, so there are cases of transmission failure quite often.
In such a case, it would be enough to shift the location a bit or disconnect and reconnect the device, but my family, except for me, does the simplest thing without such technical devices.
"Complaining to me"
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I'm not in charge of managing the wireless infrastructure, and I'm not paid to do so.
Rather, I think I am providing a stable supply of a luxurious IT environment that is unthinkable in a normal Japanese home. Even so, if there is a slight problem, they will immediately complain.
This is the same way the general public deals with the businesses that maintain the infrastructure (water, gas, electricity) in Japan and around the world.
Water, gas, and electricity are, well, life-threatening infrastructures, but that's not the case with home LAN.
If they don't have a home LAN, for example, they can do by without it.
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So, what I did was to pull the LAN cable right up to the table and put a small wireless LAN access point right next to the kitchen table, a thorough "short distance strategy".
The distance is a little more than a meter, I think.
I already thought that this was almost like connecting a LAN cable to my phone.
If it is this close, there is no way for a null point to occur.
But well, it's like having 2.4GHz and 5GHz radio waves irradiated directly into your body.
Even if we find out years later that direct exposure to radio waves in the GHz band dramatically increases cancer rates, by then it will be too late.
But -- well, in that case, I probably won't be too disappointed, since I'll have a million or so compatriots (or hundreds of millions of compatriots around the world) with me.
I have written a similar story here.