Which router for £100ish?

[dlockers]

You can't be serious... You got it wrong the first time, and your next suggestion is they spend twice as much to get the same outcome as buying a pair of Deco's to fix it?

You seem unable to read the question/read the room. OP has a £100 budget. Deco X55 got them halfway to a mesh system. Of course my answer is wrong if the right answer is:

In an ideal world, i'd like everyone to hard-wire an AP on the in the middle of each floor and the same on any extension, run a patch panel and segregate routing from switching to make upgrades easy and only use Wi-Fi for mobile devices. It's not an ideal world, unfortunately. When someone wants to improve Wi-Fi coverage and speed, the answer is usually going to be my 'ideal world' option or a decent mesh system with a bare minimum of wired backhaul on the master node and wherever possible and dedicated rather than shared radios. Why? Because I can almost guarantee a better outcome than replacing a recent AIO with a 3rd party AIO unless they live in a bed-sit.

P.S. you said you don't know consumer gear that well - X55 has ethernet backhaul and will move OP one step closer to your utopia.

 

[Avalon]

You seem unable to read the question/read the room. OP has a £100 budget. Deco X55 got them halfway to a mesh system. Of course my answer is wrong if the right answer is:



P.S. you said you don't know consumer gear that well - X55 has ethernet backhaul and will move OP one step closer to your utopia.

For a moment, it almost felt like you'd forgotten which one of us gave poor quality advice, got upset when it was pointed out, tried to argue about it, failed miserably, then when op came back as predicted and said it didn't work, didn't own it, but tried to double down and go over budget by 50%, then accused the person who gave decent advice with obvious justification of not being able to read the room and being unfamiliar with consumer grade hardware.

I mean, can you actually imagine being that person

@Drake5 i'm sorry you were given poor advice, sometimes people who should know better make the mistake of telling you what worked for them in the situation they have, rather than trying to understand what will give you the best outcome in yours. If you can return the AX55, that would allow you to get a pair of Deco X20's (£109.99) or X50's (£139.99), unfortunately they were on offer recently and aren't quite as cheap today. The other alternative is you exceed your budget by 50% as suggested by the person who got you into this mess. Good luck with whatever option you choose, but both should provide very similar end results, other than to your bank balance.

 

[dlockers]

a pair of Deco X20's (£109.99) or X50's (£139.99)

I think you are confused; so much so you have recommended the non-Broadcom version of the Deco I recommended in post 8. AX55 was a typo; AFAIK that doesn't exist.

 

[Drake5]

I appreciate all the advice you guys have given, thanks for that

I actually don't mind having the AX55, it's got a lot more settings than the ISP provided router I was using before and the wifi speeds to my other devices are better with it

Anyway, now I need to decide whether to get the Deco's or just another AX55 to extend the Wifi signal, I'll do some research and make a decision

Cheers

 

[Avalon]

I got the tp link ax55 and WiFi signal to my ring doorbell isn't any better at all

I think you are confused; so much so you have recommended the non-Broadcom version of the Deco I recommended in post 8. AX55 was a typo; AFAIK that doesn't exist.

Behold! A consumer product I don't know anything about... The Archer AX55

AX3000 Dual Band Gigabit Wi-Fi 6 Router

Featuring a 160 MHz bandwidth and 1024-QAM, Archer AX55 delivers true gigabit speeds of up to 3 Gbps. Enjoy faster streaming and gaming like never before.

www.tp-link.com

Ironically, neither do you.

 

[dlockers]

I appreciate all the advice you guys have given, thanks for that

I actually don't mind having the AX55, it's got a lot more settings than the ISP provided router I was using before and the wifi speeds to my other devices are better with it

Anyway, now I need to decide whether to get the Deco's or just another AX55 to extend the Wifi signal, I'll do some research and make a decision

Cheers

Definitely don't get another AX55. That isn't a proper Mesh device like the X55 is.

 

[dlockers]

Behold! A consumer product I don't know anything about... The Archer AX55

AX3000 Dual Band Gigabit Wi-Fi 6 Router

Featuring a 160 MHz bandwidth and 1024-QAM, Archer AX55 delivers true gigabit speeds of up to 3 Gbps. Enjoy faster streaming and gaming like never before.

www.tp-link.com

Ironically, neither do you.

Apology accepted calling me out for poor advice then giving the advice I gave in post 8

 

[tangey]

If the original poster is just looking better wifi coverage in a blackspot, can the recently bought router not be set up as a simple access point, located somewhere a bit closer to where the blackspot is, and cabled back to the original router.

Also, I didn't see if the OP mentioned the speed of his internet connection. If it's 150 or 250 or something like that, probably not gonna see any speed drop on a wireless mesh system that doesn't use a cable to run back to the router.

 

[Steveocee]

Reading just the OP and subsequent post with context. I would have said something like a pair of Decos would have sufficed.

A WiFi black hole is rarely going to get fixed swapping router A for router B.

Being as you haven’t asked to change anything else significantly in your network then I would have assumed ISP router was performing well enough for you in terms of network services.

Mesh is a consumer friendly way of fixing way black holes and is scalable to a degree to increase in time as well.

If it were my house, I’d have ran a cable down to “somewhere near” where the WiFi is needed and picked up a second hand router/ap.