Mesh Wi-Fi options?

J1nxy said:
I had 4 of the Eero 6 Pro that I picked up used at about 45 each. That blanketed the house and I placed one in the kitchen which fixed the blackspot caused by the fridge freeer and oven. The only reason I went for so many is because they were cheap, and the insulation we have upstairs under the flooring is metal coated which cuts the signal signficantly between floors.
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What sort of speeds do you get?
 
ChrisD. said:
My house is a similar size, a single UniFi AP (U6-Enterprise) on the ceiling upstairs covers the entire house. I got 1100+ Mbps from the bog downstairs via Virgin Media. It's easy to route cat5/6 to the loft in new builds, either DIY it, or if the house doesn't have network cabling already you can use the phone cabling in most cases as they use cat 5. Or MoCA as suggested above.
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Stupid question but what age would you class as a new build now @ChrisD. I'm in a similar position to the OP? Mines a newer build but about 20 year in now.

BT FTTP comes in from the external wall into a small dining room at the front of the house. Are you suggesting it'd be easy to do a run of ethernet or fiber on the inside of the external wall into the loft space, or are you thinking on the outside of the house visible?

Previous owners ran all sorts of now redundant and incredibly badly wired/faulty coax cables for sky all of which run on the outside of the building, looks terrible and makes me think it wouldn't be possible?
 
Cool story bro affair on the eeros, I bought a Grade A Eero 6E from CEX for £90 but was immediately suspicious when it arrived in OEM packaging. Lo and behold, after setting it up my eero app rebranded itself to Gigaclear. I reported the problem to CEX and Gigaclear, while waiting for a reply I heard stories about users having second hand eeros decoupled from ISPs so I contacted eero support too.

All three support teams replied in the end and all agreed I should return it. Gigaclear took down the serial number and CEX said they should be able to trace whoever sold it to them.

That’s not all though.

Eero support initially tried to give me a discount code for a brand new eero but said there was a problem as the codes only work in North America. They therefore have decided to send me a 6E unit for free. Brilliant service I think.
 
uvarvu said:
Cool story bro affair on the eeros, I bought a Grade A Eero 6E from CEX for £90 but was immediately suspicious when it arrived in OEM packaging. Lo and behold, after setting it up my eero app rebranded itself to Gigaclear. I reported the problem to CEX and Gigaclear, while waiting for a reply I heard stories about users having second hand eeros decoupled from ISPs so I contacted eero support too.

All three support teams replied in the end and all agreed I should return it. Gigaclear took down the serial number and CEX said they should be able to trace whoever sold it to them.

That’s not all though.

Eero support initially tried to give me a discount code for a brand new eero but said there was a problem as the codes only work in North America. They therefore have decided to send me a 6E unit for free. Brilliant service I think.
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How do you find the 6E?

CeX are dead dodgy. I bought a phone from them years ago that was stolen.
 
If you are using it with a wireless backhaul you want the 6 Pro rather than the 6E Pro. The 6 Pro has a better combination of radios, 1 x 2.4Ghz (2x2) 2 x 5Ghz (2x2 and 4x4) v 1 x 2.4Ghz (2x2), 1 x 5Ghz (2x2) 1 x 6Ghz (2x2) which means in most situations its provides better coverage as a mesh as the 6Ghz 6E doesn't have the penetration or range of the 5Ghz radios.

I have a 3 pack and 1 CEX bought 6 Pro the app did initially show with TalkTalk but that changed about 6 months ago and I now have the full normal app, for what it costs I'd go the CEX route and you have 2 year warranty so if it packs up then return it...
 
IC3 said:
Looking for Mesh Wi-Fi setup best suited for below

- House (New Build) 1,728 square feet
- 6 out door and 6 indoor Ring Cameras
- 900Mbps FTTP line Sky
- Devices are a mixture of Wi-Fi 5 & 6, but future proofing is good, I suppose?
- Tenants are non technical: stability and reliability are important, so basically install and forget kind of thing..

I was thinking about Tenda MX12 3-pack, any other recommendations?
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Similar situation - not a new house and 3000sq ft. Any one has had experience with

TP-Link Deco XE75?​

 
uvarvu said:
The 6E’s are great, speeds are maxed in the living room and I pickup 4-500mb elsewhere. At the moment I have no coverage around the far reaches of the house but the third unit should fix that when it arrives.
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Are you having to reboot the whole system every few weeks? What about firmware updates - at least annually or bi-annually? I'm having to do all of this with the Asus mesh wifi systems...
 
Kouba said:
Are you having to reboot the whole system every few weeks? What about firmware updates - at least annually or bi-annually? I'm having to do all of this with the Asus mesh wifi systems...
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I’ve rebooted my eero system once in 2 years. And updates install automatically eventually or you manually install when it’s available via the app.
I think they are a great mesh system, easy set and forget type, they get trashed by some folk because of being associated with Amazon now.
 
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Nope, I received a refund. Eero tried to give me a discount code but are sending me a free one after realising the code wouldn’t work.
 
I've tried so many APs whilst trying to achieve my end goal, and as such wasted a lot of money doing so.

Asus, Draytek, Unifi, Netgear, TP-Link......most of which were the higher-end products within their product range.

Each had its own strength/weakness.

I've now had my Grandstream WiFi6 AP for about 1 year and it is absolutely brilliant at everything. If it was to ever die, I'd go and get another without any hesitation.

Local WebGUI, solid software, very granular settings to cover most use-cases.

Amazing range, superb throughput. Never needs rebooting, solid firmware upgrades.
 
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I've got an Asus XT8 mesh and it's good, but, mine only does ~350mbits over the wireless connections between the mesh bases. Not a problem when I was on 100mbit internet but I'm now on 500 so I'm looking to get ethernet cables put in to have a wired back haul for the mesh.
 
Eero 6 Pro's were on my list too, they don't need full speed on wireless, they've ethernet cable running to their gaming PCs and android boxes. Its mostly mobile devices/laptops that wont suffer much if they get half the available bandwidth.

I said, I'll help, but I already regret saying that... I'm spending more time on research than I anticipated. :p
 
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