Advice Needed: Old Jacobean Property over 3 floors? Broadband, Mesh etc

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I’m moving to a 3 story Jacobean property. It was built in 1621 so I have a limited possibility of running Ethernet around the place. It is Grade 2 listed.

It has a ground to 3rd floor central stairwell. With clear line of sight from ground to 3rd floor.

I want to provide the house on all floors with strong fast WiFi. The current owner has a BT Smart Hub 4 on the 1st floor and the WiFi barely reaches the ground floor or the 3rd floor - 2 bars on the former, just one bar on the latter.

I was thinking of the TP Link Deco 1200 units with Powerline also? Or I was thinking about WiFi 6. There is so much choice that it’s not clear how best to tackle or which products?

It's Brick and Stone. I am assuming plaster walls.

Here is the internal 3D Model if that helps?
https://vt.ehouse.co.uk/HmZgCeoy4FP

You can see from it the challenge of the central stairwell. So this is why I was thinking of using say a TP-Link Mesh Network for Wifi with Powerline backhaul such as the TP-Link Deco P9 series?

My second challenge is Internet. Its in an excellent Three 4G Broadband location outside getting circa 50-60MB. But BT wired broadband is on 4MB down and 1MB up
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So I have to also get Three 4G sent around the house. So was going to get a decent 4G Router to handle that?

Kind regards Neil.
 
That is a very impressive property and software to view it all!

The default/preferred option will be an AP on each floor hardwired to your router but you could try powerline adapters if running a network cable is completely impossible (usually it isn't?) but its a bit pot luck with how good it will be with your wiring / ring main(s). You could end up spending a few hundred on them and they don't work as expected.

For 4G/5G help I'd suggested this thread - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/foru...adband-thread-three-ee-vodafone-etc.18917203/
 
We do installs in listed buildings all the time and it’s perfectly feasible to run ethernet either surface mounted in conduit or cut into the walls and made good.

Do you have conditions on your building about antennae? Are you banned from having a Sky dish? If yes, then I’d suggest a Mikrotik SXT LTE6 painted or wrapped to match the building. If not, then a Mikrotik LHGG LTE6 would be better. You can also get a paintable/wrappable snow-shield for the LHGG but it’s difficult to hide it’s bulk. A further option (if you do have a Sky dish) is a Mikrotik LDF LTE6. So you use your Sky dish as the LTE antenna. It’s not absolutely optimal, but it’s not bad if you’re limited on what antennae you’re allowed.
 
You any idea if its single or three phase some old big properties have three phase with separate phase on each level powerline adapters might not work, probably wont but worth checking
 
Oh wow, what a lovely house, I love high ceilings.

As WJA96 said, I don't think you will struggle to get cables in here. There are carpets you can lift to get access to the tops of walls to see what they are made of, and the storeroom/prison cell could be a useful space to get things from the ground floor to the top floor.

I've started doing some cabling work for my sister in a 1880s-era property and I thought it would be a nightmare but it's all lath and plaster so there aren't even noggins in the wall to deal with, you can just drill down through the wall plates into the void and deal with it in the floor.
 
Thanks all that's encouraging feedback. We have been told it's single phase and we do not have any conditions other than any dish needs to be on the roof NOT the sides of the building.
 
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