Mesh setup - Sky router plus Deco X50 AX3000

[SaBBz]

Morning all

I have just swapped from BT gigabit (with Halo 3 disks), to Sky broadband with no kind of mesh network as the disks no longer work with Sky broadband.

The Sky router is under the stairs with the ONT (green box), and we have CAT 5e connections going from under the stairs into both the study and the lounge (orange boxes) - both of these have gigabit switches attached which then go into TVs, PS4, PC etc, though I have a Sky Q main box connected in the lounge I have had go to wifi for the Sky Q mini box in the study as it was reducing the whole wired network to 250mbit. I'm trying to work out where best to put the Deco units to give decent coverage to the whole house and also the garden (out from the kitchen). I've attached a very basic layout diagram for reference (not to scale ).

Is it sensible to put one unit under the stairs, wired directly into the Sky router and then turning off the Sky wifi, and then the other two units connected into the switches in the study/lounge? Is this likely to give me a poor signal to the garden (which is about 25m from the under-stairs cupboard, in which case I might be better having a Deco unit in the kitchen (which cannot then be wired via ethernet)?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

 

[SaBBz]

Thanks both for the responses.

The house is a new build so the walls are pretty thin, being plasterboard and a small amount of insulation, though I have already bought the set of 3 X50s so I may just wire up the two in the study/lounge and put the other in the kitchen I think. The specs say they have good coverage so that should hopefully be ample?

 

[SaBBz]

Garden usage would be streaming music but also some phone and iPad usage, though nothing that requires too much bandwidth. I might turn the wifi off on the router and pop the third unit under there, and just see how the signal is in the garden. If it’s a bit rubbish then I can always move it into the kitchen.