Hi! My house currently has NBN FTTP.
I purchased a Deco 3 pack mesh Wi-Fi, and connected one of it to the NBN NTD box. I spread the other two around the house.
My question is: I have multiple ethernet ports around the house. Would that mean they are now redundant as the Wi-Fi is transmitted via the Deco mesh only? I tried connecting a Eufy Homebase 3 into the ethernet port in the wall and no Wi-Fi was detected.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks!
Thanks, still getting my head around this NBN FTTP.
I got the Deco XE75 6E AXE5400
Use Ethernet backhaul and put the other devices strategically near Ethernet points. This way your bandwidth won't be wasted moving data between nodes.
You'll likely have a cupboard somewhere which has points for Ethernet throughout the house. These should be connected to the main unit.
You need to either connect the eufy home base via Ethernet to one of the nodes or configure it to use wifi.
Connecting it to an ethernet port without anything on the other side won't connect it to wifi.
Treat your multiple ethernet ports as switch using the 2nd setup
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To add to what's already been mentioned, I believe you may be mistaking Wifi to mean network and/or internet access. They are not the same thing, though common parlance has often been equating the two.
Ethernet and Wifi are two means to the same ends - to connect you to a network. Ethernet does it via physical cables, whereas Wifi does it via radio signals. Since you connected your main Deco node directly to the NBN NTD, if you plug something into one of the Ethernet ports in your house, there's nothing on the other end for it to be connected to. It's a little bit like connecting an HDMI or video cable to your PlayStation and not connecting to other end to a TV.
Mesh Wifi nodes broadcast a Wifi signal for your devices to connect to it, but the nodes you've set up around your house also need to send the data back to the main node that's physically connected to the NTD. This is called the backhaul.
There are two ways to do this: one is to send the data back to the main node wirelessly using Wifi, which you're currently doing. This is inefficient because it hogs Wifi bandwidth that your end devices could be making use of (some mesh systems have a separate Wifi channel dedicated for backhaul).
The other is to physically connect the mesh nodes via Ethernet, so all backhaul data goes though physical cables, which tend to be faster and more reliable than Wifi, and avoids using Wifi bandwidth. This is obviously the preferred method, and that's where the existing Ethernet ports come in.
Depending on your home's setup, there's usually a patchboard somewhere where the ports throughout the house terminate, and a network switch that connects to the patchboard. There should already be an Ethernet port or cable near your NTD that goes to the patchboard/switch. You will want to connect that to your main Deco node, which should bring all the Ethernet ports around the house online. Connect your remaining nodes to an Ethernet port and they should automatically switch to Ethernet backhaul.
Apart from that you would generally want to connect devices requiring high network reliability via Ethernet wherever possible, so TVs, streaming video boxes, gaming consoles, gaming PCs, etc that have Ethernet ports. You can connect them either directly to the port in the wall, or if you have a Deco node connected to the port, you can connect them to the Deco. If you don't have enough ports in one location (for example your TV stand might have your TV, a streaming video box, and gaming console), you can buy a network switch which will give you more ports.
Those ethernet ports can be thought of as extension cables. You need something plugged in on both ends.
Depending on the model Deco, it would look something like this:
NBN FTTP Unid port -> Deco -> ethernet connected from Deco to each ethernet port in the patch panel.
Ideally, you wouldn't run the other two Deco in wifi backhaul mode, but in ethernet backhaul. So you'd connect them to ethernet ports in the rooms.
Which model did you get exactly?