WiFi Help

[PieEater]

I have an Asus RT-AC66U B1 as my main router which is in one corner of my 2 story house. I wanted to improve the signal to the other side of the house and out to the back garden so I bought a Tp-Link RE700X and set it up in AP mode using a cabled connection. I set the RE700X up with the same SSID and password as the Asus and this has worked well. We've recently had some building work done and I seem to have a location where I want to use my wireless devices that is in between the coverage of both the Asus and the Tp-Link which is causing issues with devices losing the connection and having issues reconnecting.

I think my first step is to reduce the signal strength from the Asus so that the devices in the problem area pick up the signal from the Tp-Link but wanted some advice on other ways of addressing the issue. I was looking at getting a new Asus RT-AX58U and using this with the AC66U in MESH mode and selling on the Tp-Link or picking up a pair of Deco X20 and using these instead of the existing Asus and Tp-Link kit. But would prefer not to spend money if it's not necessary.

 

[5abr3]

It may be worth checking to see what other networks are around and if any of them are using the same channel. I had all sorts of trouble at a previous house where there were a bunch of neighbours router's auto-hopping channels chasing each other around, managed to get everyone to stick to a set channel on their settings and everyone's connections improved dramatically (only a couple of houses in the middle of nowhere).

I haven't needed to play with range extenders but I would assume if you can diversify their channel selections (if they currently use the same channel) then that should help things too on the same basis.

 

[PieEater]

Found a good deal on a refurbished TP-Link AX55 Pro router (£59.98 inc. 12 months warranty) so will replace the Asus with this and use it with the RE700X in mesh mode which will hopefully resolve the issue and give me WiFi 6 across the house.

 

[PieEater]

Seems to have been a good decision. I think the issue was some new steel struts put in as part of the building work interfering with the WiFi signals. I've replaced the Asus router with the refurb TP Link and it works fine with the TP Range Extender in Mesh mode, eliminating the dropouts when I had the Asus router and TP Link RE700X as an AP.