Looking or any suggestions as to what would be my best solutions for home network/wifi coverage?
Recently had a FTTP network being installed in my local area and today I've been hooked up with a new 450mb connection.
My 2 storey house consists of a footprint of approximately 70sq/m. My old BT router sat more or less in the middle of the lower floor, and I improved wifi coverage with three TP Link Deco M5 AC1200 nodes. These were fine, but occasionally troublesome.
My new FTTP modem is at the front of the house. I have been tearing my hair out investigating what mesh system to get to replace the Deco M5, but from a reply to a recent thread in this forum, I wonder if there are factors I haven't considered.
When I renovated the house I put network cable through a lot of it, so I happen to have a network socket right where the new FTTP modem is situated. There are various other sockets throughout the house, and one is in a first floor bedroom at the rear of the house. They all converge to a switch in my understairs cupboard where the BT router was situated.
Would I be better to get a mesh router system with a view to having one connected to the modem, and then have a cabled connection directly to another node at rear of the house via the network sockets? If the answer is yes, then are there any features I should be looking for in light of the fact that I'd be connecting them via a wired connection? Or indeed, any features that wouldn't really be needed. e.g. I'd been looking at tri-band, but I read that if you have a cabled connection between your nodes, they will use that for the backhaul. So presumably I could save a few quid and just get dual band.
Apologies that this is a bit of a vague post. I consider myself tech savvy, but networking is right at the bottom end of my tech know how.
Cheers.
Recently had a FTTP network being installed in my local area and today I've been hooked up with a new 450mb connection.
My 2 storey house consists of a footprint of approximately 70sq/m. My old BT router sat more or less in the middle of the lower floor, and I improved wifi coverage with three TP Link Deco M5 AC1200 nodes. These were fine, but occasionally troublesome.
My new FTTP modem is at the front of the house. I have been tearing my hair out investigating what mesh system to get to replace the Deco M5, but from a reply to a recent thread in this forum, I wonder if there are factors I haven't considered.
When I renovated the house I put network cable through a lot of it, so I happen to have a network socket right where the new FTTP modem is situated. There are various other sockets throughout the house, and one is in a first floor bedroom at the rear of the house. They all converge to a switch in my understairs cupboard where the BT router was situated.
Would I be better to get a mesh router system with a view to having one connected to the modem, and then have a cabled connection directly to another node at rear of the house via the network sockets? If the answer is yes, then are there any features I should be looking for in light of the fact that I'd be connecting them via a wired connection? Or indeed, any features that wouldn't really be needed. e.g. I'd been looking at tri-band, but I read that if you have a cabled connection between your nodes, they will use that for the backhaul. So presumably I could save a few quid and just get dual band.
Apologies that this is a bit of a vague post. I consider myself tech savvy, but networking is right at the bottom end of my tech know how.
Cheers.
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