Currently we have one NETGEAR WAC120-100UKS in the house providing our wifi as our Cisco router doesn't have wifi, now I'm up to date with routers and switches but wifi is my weak area. Currently the signal is great in the middle of the house but in some rooms there's no signal. The house is wired up with CAT6 everywhere so installing extra access points is not a problem. My question is what's the best way to go about this, a mesh network combining multiple access points or a different way, and could anyone recommend me any reliable products? Price is less of a concern than reliability and throughput.
Looking to improve my patchy wifi.
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If you want a nice neat and robust solution then I’d suggest some Ubiquiti in wall access points in the rooms suffering the problem. They’d replace your faceplates, give you rock solid wifi in the room and still give you a couple of Ethernet sockets.
Since you’re cabled up you should definitely add access points and not use mesh.
Since you’re cabled up you should definitely add access points and not use mesh.
I have been using Tenda Nova MW3/MW6 mesh - very easy to setup via app, can be hardwired if required in a 'remote' area. Not experienced the dropouts or handover issues I was getting with regular extenders. Currently have 3 nodes and get great signal in the house (old 1920s solid brick walls throughout). Planning on adding a few more to get better coverage in the back garden, which is simple to do as and when.
I think you overestimate my setup, currently we don't have any faceplates just cat 6 cables coming out of the walls connected to gigabit switches.
Since I'll be overhauling the WiFi and the electrics though it does make sense to sort out faceplates, my electrician should be able to do this shouldn't he? Might as well add it to the list of jobs.
Is mesh not combining multiple access points? God I really need to do the cisco WiFi CCNA.
I think you overestimate my setup, currently we don't have any faceplates just cat 6 cables coming out of the walls connected to gigabit switches.
Since I'll be overhauling the WiFi and the electrics though it does make sense to sort out faceplates, my electrician should be able to do this shouldn't he? Might as well add it to the list of jobs.
Is mesh not combining multiple access points? God I really need to do the cisco WiFi CCNA.
Mesh is sharing the load across multiple access points which act as range extenders for a single WLAN. IRS better than nothing, but it’s. It great. If you have cables, then attach the in-wall access points and you won’t be disappointed.
Ah right, I assume that these are powered by POE?
Seems like a great solution as I need to install faceplates anyway, might as well get these in wall access points. It looks like you plug the ethernet cable in the back and then it acts as a gigabit switch to produce 2x ethernet ports, but I can't see them in the photos, is there some sort of flap on the front? Can this be removed so the ports are visible?