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So i moved into a 'new' home a few weeks back. It's actually a victorian terrance house which hasn't been opened up yet so there are solid brick walls everywhere.
This is nightmare for my Wifi. I've just got the Sky standard hub, and it's good enough to cover the living room and up through the ceiling into the bedroom above, but the signal cant get through ANY solid wall. If you go in the dining room, kitchen, bathroom, ANYWHERE else in the house basically, your phone will switch to using 4G.
I want to set up a mesh network in the house. Ideally, i think, given the solid walls the best solution would be powerline wifi extenders but i cant find these easily and when i do theres no mention of them forming a mesh.
Has Powerline fallen by the wayside? Would i see much benefit from Wifi 6?
Typical usage:
A couple with a small child so -
4k Netflix etc, 2 people working from home, lots of zoom calls, only occasional (sadly) online gaming (Rocket League mostly). I would imagine 'peak' usage might be my wife watching netflix one evening and me playing RL upstairs.
We also dont want 'ugly' AP's dotted round the house so i have been looking at the Google Nest Wifi option as a solution but i'm unsure of its signal quality.
This is nightmare for my Wifi. I've just got the Sky standard hub, and it's good enough to cover the living room and up through the ceiling into the bedroom above, but the signal cant get through ANY solid wall. If you go in the dining room, kitchen, bathroom, ANYWHERE else in the house basically, your phone will switch to using 4G.
I want to set up a mesh network in the house. Ideally, i think, given the solid walls the best solution would be powerline wifi extenders but i cant find these easily and when i do theres no mention of them forming a mesh.
Has Powerline fallen by the wayside? Would i see much benefit from Wifi 6?
Typical usage:
A couple with a small child so -
4k Netflix etc, 2 people working from home, lots of zoom calls, only occasional (sadly) online gaming (Rocket League mostly). I would imagine 'peak' usage might be my wife watching netflix one evening and me playing RL upstairs.
We also dont want 'ugly' AP's dotted round the house so i have been looking at the Google Nest Wifi option as a solution but i'm unsure of its signal quality.