New 900mbps connection

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Had a city fibre connection put in. Due to the layout of the house they had to put it in at front left of the house. It’s quite a big detached house so the signal is only 10mb in rooms next to the router which is 15m away. After that room the signal is basically zero.

I had a Tena Nova mw6 which I used with previous sky phone line connection. That boosts signal to around 40-50mb around the house.

When I am next to the tp-link ac1200 router supplied by the ISP I get speeds of between 400-500mb.

Is there anyway to get better speeds around the house? Would an Amazon eero pro 6 do a better job? But considering I am getting 40-50mb around house and 200mb in rooms next to the main router with the mw6 would Amazon router be significantly better?
 
Post a floor plan of your house, but be prepared to be recommended installing cabling to run wired PCs from and wired APs. If you want to get anywhere close to 900Mbps over Wi-Fi then a mesh solution isn't going to cut it for you.
 
I have no PC’s to run. I don’t mind something that gets me 300-400mbs across the house. I was recommended tp link powerline adapter to create a wireless access point. What sort of speeds would this get if I move the main router to the middle of the house using the power line adaptor?
 
If speed is what you're after do not go with powerlines. You'll struggle to get decent speeds from them.

There was this thread earlier which shows there's a setting on the Tenda kits that can slow the speed down. You want to find "Capacity Oriented Mode" in the settings and turn it off.
 
Are there any power lines that would give me around 500mb through the electrical wires?

How is the Amazon Eeero? On a 900mb plan what speeds can I expect with 4 of these around a 6 bed house?
 
What speeds would a Eero pro 6 mesh system give. Some reports suggest around 600mb in the same room as the router. Is that correct?
 
Nobody can answer these questions because Wi-Fi is so sensitive to environmental conditions and we don't know anything about your clients. If you share a floor plan then you might have more luck with getting suggestions, otherwise you are best off buying from somewhere that is lenient with returns. You will not be able to maintain 5-600Mbps through remote nodes on a mesh setup though.
 
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As well as floor plan having a general idea how thick the walls are can also affect it. I have a support wall in the middle of my home and it basically kills the 5GHz signal even though the main AP is right by it, so I had to drill a hole and cable up another AP just for that side. Mesh will have the same issue if you're going to rely on wireless backhual.

I don't think I've ever seen powerlines go past 250mb odd. And even then that requires your own home's electrical wiring to be very good. You're much better off laying down some cables if possible. If you don't want to run them inside the home, external works.
 
Thank you so much everyone. In regards to Eero pro 6 what kind of speeds would I get with that? Reviews seem to suggest around 500 around the nodes
 
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Thank you so much everyone. In regards to Eero pro 6 what kind of speeds would I get with that? Reviews seem to suggest around 500 around the nodes
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We can't give a rough estimate until you give us a general floor plan and how thick the walls are.
 
Its a new build.Not that savvy on how thick the walls will be. Will draw up a floor plan.

A quick question though.... Would two mesh systmes work alongside each other? I see the Netgear Orbi is highly rated but I already have the Tenda. My idea is to use the Tenda for far our places like back of house and garage and use the Oribi for inside the house main areas. Reviews say people are getting 700mb around the router.
 
Mesh systems can work but what you get from them is very mixed depending on your home layout, you'll want a dedicated wifi backhaul channel if you are not wired.

I get 900Mb through wifi but I have gone AP in each room with wired backhaul, ideally you want 2.5G LAN for backhaul on wifi then the 1Gb Lan won't hold your wifi back.

Remember your client side wifi has to match your AP ability so if you only have old AC gear, I assume your Wifi gear is AC also, no point getting wifi 6 unless you are just using it for fast wifi backhaul links.

The MW6 you have is only two channel and low rate AC, so in perfect conditions from main router you'd be lucky to get much over 500Mb, using the wifi backhaul mesh satellite could half that to a top rate of little ~250 in ideal conditions, i.e. perfect link back to main and good signal to repeated wifi, if it repeats through another node you'll get half again, you can wire the MW6 nodes for better performance from each node.

You don't want to use two separate mesh systems, they will be competing for space in the same channels.

A little Mesh review that came up on my YouTube recently has the eero on.

 
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Thank you so much for the detailed reply. Makes perfect sense.

I have decided to upgrade to the netgear orbi 753 system. I have some ring security cameras in the garden that work well on the mw6. My idea is to try them out with the orbi but since they are quite far if that doesn’t work I was thinking of putting a couple of novas mw6 to reach the garden from the lab on the furthest orbi. This is to save the cost of buying another orbi satellite which cost £150.

Would you say this could impact my orbi network?
 
Typically the Orbi and things like the high end Asus stuff have really good antenna setup and get good range but if you do get coverage holes you can set the MW6 satellite as a repeater working of off the Orbi.
 
Use CAT 6A cable to run it to the end of the room where you need Wi-Fi access and then use either a cheap Wi-Fi router or a POE access point.

Wi-Fi expanders etc all aren’t great and add latency.

I use a cheap Honor 3 Wi-Fi 6 router which cost me £30 or something silly and works very well
 
Ok so I need to extend a LAN cable from the Modem that was installed by City Fibre at the entrance of the house to my sitting room around 15m away. Shall I get some Cat 6 cable from Screwfix and install a wall Ethernet socket in the other room? Will there be any loss of signal doing this? Would cat 6 do for Gigabyte internet?
 
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