Hi all,
I live in a double brick house that is 2 stories and internet connection is very weak throughout the house. I have Ethernet for my main study room however I’m looking to improve connection through my living room and kitchen. I have started to look at the mesh wifi router deals prior to BF and CM begin. Tried to research a bit if mesh would work through double brick at all or if I was wasting money, but got a bit confused in the end.
Hope someone here could provide me some help!
I've recommended it on OzB before but if you currently have a crappy router, take a look at the Asus RT-AX86U Pro. I have the previous version (the non-Pro one) and it's 2.4Ghz coverage is insane…completely floods my whole property with signal and I can even see it across the road at my neighbor's place and the 5Ghz coverage is impressive too. Best idea is grab one of them, deploy it into your place and see how it goes.
What are your walls made of? Brick, concrete, double brick or wood studs or metal frame or TBA.
This.
Doesn't matter if the exterior walls are double brick or now. What matters is what the interior walls are.
Gyprock>>>>>brick>>concrete>concrete+rebar.
Devastator0 "completely floods my whole property" so what are the internal walls made of?
Lower level is double brick + gyprock interior walls, upstairs is woods studs and gyprock. Forgot to mention those details on my post. Lower level is where the kitchen and living room is (where I have connection issues).
House is very old.
If you are right with double brick internal walls down stairs (old 1948 house like I had) then you will have issues depending on where the mesh is put up stairs to get the coverage you want down stairs. If the study is downstairs then IMHO run a CAT5E cable upstairs somehow so you get a good connection to the router upstairs and then the mesh devices can get full connectivity to the router up stairs (* assuming no fridges, stoves or marge metal objects between the router and the mesh devices).
The higher you put the mesh devices upstairs the better the coverage into the rooms downstairs, but I would expect there to be black spots downstairs due to the double brick walls downstairs blocking the signals.
If you can get under the house then run CAT5E to the rooms downstairs you need internet in and put a 1GB switch to cable the lower level devices and put mesh upstairs.
Gyprock is practically radio transparent.
Double brick is a killer for the 5G band.
Double brick is a pain for the 2.4G band. When I used it one double brick was was usable, but two was a no go. This was on a single level house.
I put CAT 5E under the house and never looked back. Mesh worked a treat where double brick was not between the two devices.