Wifi mesh systems

Tis a listed building and all the walls are very thick, I'd have nightmares even thinking about doing cable runs!

Many thanks - appreciate your replies.

I will try to hardwire whatever I can.

Unfortunately I only had 30-day return on the Google Wifi, but it is still going in the bin.

I will order something new - looking around if I want tri-band, wifi 6 and three devices, the choice seems to be Linksys Velop MX12600, TP Link Deco XE75, or Netgear Orbi RBK753. All of these come close to 500, the Linksys is the cheapest at 439.

Any thoughts on these criteria and options?

The Google WiFi is just terrible when it comes to reliability. I can live with the speeds but devices cutting out non stop. Before I installed it I had the 10 year old router that I got from my ISP and it did a better job

Yah, you're right.. they are 2.4Ghz only.

I already have the bands separated and with different SSID's

I'll have to try changing to AP mode tonight and see.. can't risk it during the day as the wife and I are both working from home.. there'd be ructions if it went wrong.. 🙄

Thanks for the advice.

Hiya,

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Yeah, Imagine point blank refused to do that for me.. felt like I was being fobbed off at the time.. and then when the mesh worked okay I just left it.

I'm out of contract with them and rather than hand them another €100 I'm going to stick it out..

The NBP eejits have revised my connection date to September now so I'll hold out and see... tho this is the 3rd connection date I got so far.. sigh..

Here's hopin that sub 10MBs speeds of a saturday night becomes a distant memory soon...

I'll try changin to AP mode tonight and see what gives.

Thanks again

TP-Link Deco should do that for you.

Given your existing gear though Ubiquiti gear might suit you better (you will need to host a controller as well as the AP's though). TP-Link Omada would probably do similar.

Just as a follow-up.

The Asus ZenWifi AX just doesn't work with the Blink camera. The Blink support just gave up in the end.

Setting it int AP mode with the Imagine router made no difference.

Lots of other devices, smart plugs , Echos, etc, are connecting to it no problem.. just the Blink cameras.

They are just access points, you still need a router. I have a full ubiquiti set up which might be overkill but if you want the full unifi effect id recommend that you get a dream machine (router and switch) and you can run the access points off that. You can plug the unifi router directly to the ont but there a few settings you need to set before itll work.

see settings below, basically if you are replacing the router you need one where you can set a vlan id.

yes you could do that just use the existing router and turn off the wifi and use the unifi aps, you are on the right track with wired access points.

if you decide you want to change things in the future you could go for the dream machine set up, its addictive kit....

the dream machine has an ap built in aswell by the way.

Thank you, I hadn't seen that. It does look like a good piece of kit. Looking into it, it isn't as powerful as the UDM but it has wifi 6 and has POE so might be more suited to my scenario - I am not running too much on my network I just want to have decent speeds and coverage and future proof it a bit in case I want to get more into in the future. Stupid question but can I power the UniFi6 Lite AP off the POE ports on the UDR? My assumption is you can but I just want to make sure.

What do ye think of the new Google Nest Wifi Pro?

Im looking into it but they only come in sets of 1 or 3. 1 isn't enough and 3 is too much!!

Might go with Nest Wifi instead and see how that is. Have 1Gb with Sky

Ended up getting a Netgear Orbi and a Nest Wifi just to compare the 2. The Orbi was able to connect directly into the ONT with its VLAN tag support. It's wifi6 so i was getting around 800Mb which was fantastic. But for some reason the second satellite, though ethernet-backhauled was only able to pull about 300Mb down!

Set up the Nest wifi and it only gets about 500Mb down but near the full Gb on ethernet. I'd rather faster ethernet than wifi so im keeping the Nest, and still debating an upgrade to the Pro.

The beta of the Home app allows you to manually set the VLAN tag but I'm not in the beta yet so still using the Sky modem in between for now!

I have a 200sqm bungalow with and all walls are solid inside. When researching the NETGEAR Orbi and Linksys Velop were meant to be the best for signal through masonry. I went with the Orbi. One router and 2 satellites. Did the trick. However the previous owners had wired for a satellite at one end of the house so it obviously helped. I have no problem with signal inside and for much of the garden. It really would help if your brother could even get one Ethernet cable from the router connected to a satellite on the first floor and then other satellites could daisy chain.

I had a bit of difficulty understanding your post, but will say this... The major benefit is that it is a mesh system, if you're not getting good coverage with your current router, them a single module would only offer minor benefits... I'd recommend using two modules (at least) through a 3 bed house... That should be plenty and should help with whatever is happening in the attic. Put one downstairs and one upstairs on the opposite side of the house.