networking advice

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Hi

We are moving into a new house at the end of the year which has Virgin Media ports in almost every room.

It is a 3 story house with 3 bedrooms on top floor, living room/kitchen/dining rooms on middle floor and a study/utility room on the ground floor.

I plan to get the Virgin hub installed in the ground floor study in modem mode and use with my own router (Asus RT-N66U)

I am not sure on this giving a good wifi signal to the top of the house.

So first question is will my router be able to give a good wifi signal to the top of the house without having to do anything?

will i have to get some additional equipment to get a good wifi signal every where? and if so, what?

Could i get 2 Virgin hubs and run double routers and broadcast the same network?

I have no real clue on networking, my knowledge goes as far as setting virgin hub into modem mode and then setting up my own router( maybe following the wizard :p )

I plan to run a home server in the study and stream music to something like a Sonus and stream HD video to TV/tablets and i also want to get amazon dot/echo and wifi bulbs etc set up in the future, basically Smart home stuff.


Thanks for any help.
 
This is what is in the build spec for CAT6/virgin media ports, i forgot i took a picture of it.


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We where shown the plans but i only noticed the Virgin points and not CAT 6 points. I assume the Virgin ports are what ever is required for the TV box.

What ever i buy i would like to keep to around £200
 
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