Hi all,
I'll try and explain how I originally setup and where I am now coupled with the problems I am facing and then a possible soloution. Feedback on any of this, particularly the soloution part, will be greatly appreciated.
If it can be today then even better as one of my soloutions is half price until 10pm!
Virgin Media have a connection at the front of my house and I've been with them for 20+years.
2 Years ago we built and extension at the rear of the house and I had the builders run some cabling from the front of the house to the extension. The termination point sits roughly in the middle of the house.
At this point they installed a switch plate (not sure of the name) LINK.
This then distributed connections back to the front of the house and into the Kitchen/Diner (extension). As thsi was the termination point of the incoming cable this was also the location of the wifi router.
Thus effectively...... cable in from front. terminate at wifi/router in extension near middle of house. Distribute from there.
However, The main Coaxle (?) cable to the middle of the house broke and my Wifi/Router is now back at the front of the house. As it's a wifi/router the wifi is now at the front of the house too. I hard wired into the front room PS and TV and reverse the cat6 connection back to the face plate in the middle of the house and cross wire (my terminology for connecting to side-by-side ports) into my PC
Still with me? (if not the summary below is far shorter and might just make more sense. K.I.S.S)
I recently installed this LINK which was useless. The range worked but as it was so close to the VM wifi our devices in the house really struggled with what to connect to and would drop and reconnect as we moved around the house.
We've now removed it but all my wifi devices seem to be struggling and I want to resolve this. One of hte problems we had was that my Sonos system whcih is dotted around the house seemed to be connecting to differnt wifi's at differnt times thus being nightmarish to control. We could only print to our wifi printer if we stood in certain parts of the house.
One Soloution:
Is there a better/simpler way?
Wall of Text............ sorry for that.
Regards
Lee
I'll try and explain how I originally setup and where I am now coupled with the problems I am facing and then a possible soloution. Feedback on any of this, particularly the soloution part, will be greatly appreciated.
If it can be today then even better as one of my soloutions is half price until 10pm!
Virgin Media have a connection at the front of my house and I've been with them for 20+years.
2 Years ago we built and extension at the rear of the house and I had the builders run some cabling from the front of the house to the extension. The termination point sits roughly in the middle of the house.
At this point they installed a switch plate (not sure of the name) LINK.
This then distributed connections back to the front of the house and into the Kitchen/Diner (extension). As thsi was the termination point of the incoming cable this was also the location of the wifi router.
Thus effectively...... cable in from front. terminate at wifi/router in extension near middle of house. Distribute from there.
However, The main Coaxle (?) cable to the middle of the house broke and my Wifi/Router is now back at the front of the house. As it's a wifi/router the wifi is now at the front of the house too. I hard wired into the front room PS and TV and reverse the cat6 connection back to the face plate in the middle of the house and cross wire (my terminology for connecting to side-by-side ports) into my PC
Still with me? (if not the summary below is far shorter and might just make more sense. K.I.S.S)
I recently installed this LINK which was useless. The range worked but as it was so close to the VM wifi our devices in the house really struggled with what to connect to and would drop and reconnect as we moved around the house.
We've now removed it but all my wifi devices seem to be struggling and I want to resolve this. One of hte problems we had was that my Sonos system whcih is dotted around the house seemed to be connecting to differnt wifi's at differnt times thus being nightmarish to control. We could only print to our wifi printer if we stood in certain parts of the house.
One Soloution:
- Get a single Eero mesh (though I appreciate a single one will not 'mesh').
- I'd keep the VM router at the front as there is no option there.
- Then with the single CAT6 that still reaches into the conversvator (middle of house) connect to a network switch
- From the network switch (new kit) connect backinto the original plate and out to CAT6 hardwired devices in the conservator
- and into the Eero to provide wifi from middle of house
- and at the same time turn off the VM wifi so that there is only one wifi in the house.
Is there a better/simpler way?
Wall of Text............ sorry for that.
Regards
Lee