Spec me a Wi-Fi mesh system

roccles

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I need to send back my Eero Pro 6 system that TalkTalk supplied when I signed up for their TalkTalk Fibre 900 service. I’m now looking for a replacement mesh system.

The Eero Pro 6 can just about reach my detached garage (where my office is) if I placed one module in the rafters of the garage and another on the living room window sill. Although a speed test in the garage maxes out at about 250mb whereas in the house it is closer to 900.

Does anyone have recommendations for a system that would perform well in this situation? Would being outside while traveling between the house and garage make much difference to the connection quality?

Red Squares indicated current mesh locations.

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Exactly as above, run a cable over such a short distance and be done with it. It’s not even far enough that it’s worth doing PTP wireless.
 
thanks guys, running a cable would be ideal but it not the easiest location as lot of concrete to deal with and don't really fancy running over head as its close to the back gate and would only be a matter of time before I take it out with a bit of timber :cry:

Didn't even know point to point was thing assumed the mesh systems I was looking at was the answer for this, looks interesting. I will have a look into this
 
I had to run power for ‘things’ through solid concrete path earlier this year, I am fortunate enough to have access to concrete saw, but they aren’t expensive to rent or indeed buy. Shut the windows (I did this in summer), wear a dust mask/face shield, ear defenders and some old clothes and cut a 1” channel, lay the conduit/cable and then concrete it again, the last part isn’t advisable when it’s properly cold/going to frost/freeze though. I used quick dry and from start to finish, it was likely an hour and a half including getting tools out/setting up and clearing away, the bloke fitting the new oil pipe for the boiler did similar in under an hour, but we were his last job of the day and he wanted an early finish.
 
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Avalon said:
I had to run power for ‘things’ through solid concrete path earlier this year, I am fortunate enough to have access to concrete saw, but they aren’t expensive to rent or indeed buy. Shut the windows (I did this in summer), wear a dust mask/face shield, ear defenders and some old clothes and cut a 1” channel, lay the conduit/cable and then concrete it again, the last part isn’t advisable when it’s properly cold/going to frost/freeze though. I used quick dry and from start to finish, it was likely an hour and a half including getting tools out/setting up and clearing away, the bloke fitting the new oil pipe for the boiler did similar in under an hour, but we were his last job of the day and he wanted an early finish.
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Thank you after going into this a bit further, I think this is exactly what I am going to do, am wondering when I lay the conduit whether I should make it accessible and large enough to feed additional cables through it in the future if needed.

My original search of just replacing my Eero mesh has now lead me into investigating building a server rack in my garage with UniFi products to control my network and cameras, plex etc! :cry:
 
roccles said:
Thank you after going into this a bit further, I think this is exactly what I am going to do, am wondering when I lay the conduit whether I should make it accessible and large enough to feed additional cables through it in the future if needed.

My original search of just replacing my Eero mesh has now lead me into investigating building a server rack in my garage with UniFi products to control my network and cameras, plex etc! :cry:
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Conduit wise I would say 25mm (comes in 2 or 3m lengths) is probably where you want to be looking, it's cheap and easy to work with, remember to put pull cord in as well unless it's short enough to rod.

Fair warning, that Unifi/rack server habit gets expensive pretty quickly, I say that as someone downsizing from a half rack/multiple servers/managed switches and fibre runs, to a much smaller comms cabinet set-up and small server. Unifi camera's aren't upto Hikvision standards, ColorVu is a game changer, but doorbell wise my G4 is way better than Blink/Ring or the Hikvision options, and you can now just about use Hikvision cameras with Protect officially now. Plex wise, iGPU and PlexPass are your friends, something like a Jonsbro N5 (12 bay+) or N4 (8 bay+), perhaps a Node 804 (10 bay+) would likely serve you better, unless you want to go rack mount (honestly, it's probably overkill), in which case the 36 bay SC847 or 24 bay SC846 are good shouts, the 16 bay SC836 is nice as well, but remember a Fractal Define XL R2 can hold a lot of drives with a little work and no rack/rails cost along with easy upgrades.
 
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