Mesh Wifi for a dummy, is the satelite slow?

OnamCh

OnamCh

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I am thinking of swapping my EE router for a mesh system and was wondering if the slaves are just as quick as the main router? For example:
- Main router downstairs
- Satelite / slave upstairs

My question is, if one device is wired into the main router and another device is wired into the satelite (I guess this is called backhaul) should I expect the same speeds on both? My understanding is that the main router is bouncing the signal to the slave which is another hope which makes me think in theory the slave should be slower?
 
It does depend on their setup. I have a mesh system with one unit up and one unit down. Both of these are connected to my router via a cable and so I get full throughput. I then have a 3rd device as a repeater in my office (only non cabled room after I swapped the spare room and old office), this connects to the wifi and then I connect to it via a cable. I still get my about 450mbps when I do a speed test (I have a 500mbps connection). I went for 6E devices to try and ensure if I did have this scenario the devices would hopefully talk to each other at decent speeds.

I am not an expert though, I just know this works for me.
 
This is the same setup I am going but with one satelite upstairs and want to hard wire it to my PC but have it as a hub upstairs for improved wifi. Out of interest what brand have you gone for and model?
 
I have a TP-Link RE700x (Sorry Wifi 6 not 6E) as the repeater unit with my main PC hardwired into. The two Mesh units I have are Linksys Atlas Pro 6 Velop Dual Band Whole Home Mesh WiFi 6 System (AX5400) (also 6 not 6E).

I do know as well that my laptop and ROG Ally show connections to the WiFi of 1Gb speeds on the 5Ghz so they seem like decent units.
 
It's only ever as slow as the slowest link in the path the data takes, more often than not, that will be wireless from client to node with a wall or whatever in the way, that assumes you hard wire, obviously if you are doing wireless backhaul from node to node, it gets more precarious, and if it's on a shared radio.... well buy better mesh.
 
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The one I was thinking of getting was the netgear nighthawk (wifi 7). Its overkill but will last a long time I imagine
 
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