I would love some advice please. I’m looking at buying a wifi 6 mesh. I have a double level house with brick walls.
I’m looking at either:
Can you please tell me your experience with any of these or preferences.
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I've got TP-Link Deco X50 POE - happy with them, never had a drop out and improved my signal strength significantly.
If the floor between the two levels is concrete then it will have a bunch of reo in it and as such you may struggle to get good coverage. You may need to position a mesh device at the bottom of the stairs and at the top of the stairs to get coverage between the two levels.
If you have CAT5 or can run CAT 5 from the NBN termination area to the two levels then you will be in allot better position even if the cables run on the outside of the house.
If I had to buy consumer mesh, my first choice would be Deco. But there have been reports by others on here that some Deco mesh models are not true mesh- rather, they are a wifi star topology where each slave station has to connect back to the base, which is a terrible design. I haven't tracked which models do this.
I would not touch Amplifi gear with a bargepole. It's downmarket Unifi, which is already cheap shit 'business' gear that is skewed towards pretty rather than quality. I used to run Unifi, and will never go back. My one buddy who bought Amplifi quickly replaced it with a cheap TP Link router.
Also, two floor house, you want more than 2 nodes.
brick wall is no good as high speed wifi won’t get through reliably. Your practical option is hardwiring between the floors, then plug the nodes together to create a stable and fast mesh network
Brick isn't that bad- I can get through two walls okay with one AP. Concrete is the wifi killer.
We have TPLink Deco M9 3 pack at work, single level building. The signal from the main Deco goes through 3-4 solid brick walls effortlessly. We get close to full speed in the backyard about 5-10 metres from the last node, which is a total distance from the main node of about 15 metres straight line including several brick walls in the way. No dropouts or connectivity issues at all. I also have 2 pack Deco X60 at home. The X60 covers two levels with timber floors with no speed loss.
Both M9 and X60 don't have dedicated backhaul. If this is important to you, X90 is the way to go. The M9 is only WiFi 5. The Deco app allows to select how the nodes connect between each other and you can also choose the 2.4 or 5 band.
Thanks for the suggestions :)
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