Mesh Wi-Fi Advice

I know you already have answers but if Walls are the issue your best bet is the Decolink P9.

It's still mesh but it uses the Powerlines as a backhaul meaning that where signal from each mesh satellite is weak it can use the Powerlines instead.

Only downside is that it doesn't support WiFi 6.

Mesh Networks are great. I swapped provider a few months back and just unplugged the Sky Router, plugged the replacement in and bang everything worked. No going round the whole house updating the WiFi connection details for every device

 

What's main difference between E4 and M5 (apart from shape)? Just ethernet ports?

 

Looks like the M5 covers slightly more area, both appear to have ethernet ports. Not sure other than that to be honest.

 

Cheers, just ordered a 3 pack of M5 .................. will let you know how I get on when I try them tonight

 

Main difference Andy is the 1000Mb Ethernet port on the M5. The E4 will only allow speeds of upto 100mb to pass through it. If your speeds at home are above 100mb and you are wanting to use the primary mesh also as a router, you are better of with the M5.

 

We have always had issues with Wi-Fi at our house and tried all sorts of boosters etc with limited results.
On Saturday had a lad come and set a mesh system up and it’s now brilliant.
Looked really easy to set up but we were just so frustrated with previous efforts we opted to pay an expert.

 

Bought a tp link ax3000 WiFi router as the signal from the virgin router is shocking.

300mb on WiFi on most devices, eldest son was always going through his data watching Netflix on his phone on a night not had a complaint since.

0n 600mb with virgin and on ethernet plugged into my nvidia shield getting close to 700mb. Wish I'd done it sooner

 

Mine say 1167 Megabits Per Second so I'm not sure that's correct?

 

If you are primarily using the mesh as a Wi-Fi extender whilst still keeping your current broadband router from your isp then you will receive those high speeds.

Try putting your Virgin Router into “modem” mode and you will only receive upto 100mb over WiFi.

Reason I know this is because I ended up swapping the E4 for the M5 because of this.

 

You wouldn't think I worked in technology but ........
I got the TP-Link the other day. Seems Ok I guess, but not really doing much by the way of downloading (that will change when sprogs #1 and #2 come home for Xmas).
Looks like it reports real-time data transfer speeds, so everything today is really showing in Kbps. Connectivity and coverage seem OK.

I have BT Fibre 100 - which when I got it a couple of years back gave me about 70Mb down. Funnily enough it is now consistently 35Mb (ish) ...... just above their minimum guarantee - so I am nowhere near some of you guys in this thread.

So I have just done a test from my phone, watching a Youtube Vid whilst downloading a Spotify album. Result below - is that what you would expect @Gally and @royston tyke ? Not sure what else I can do regarding tests to see what it is capable of. Will be in touch with BT for an upgrade.

 

EDIT:
The app shows the amount of data being transmitted, doh.

So looking at connection Speed shown on properties of my various wireless devices ......

433Mbps on my android phone (Wireless 5)
433 on tablet
866 on my work laptop (Wireless 5)
300 on my own laptop (Wireless 4)

Like Gally alludes to above ....... as good if not better speeds than wire.

I could see me working in IT ......... lol

 

Hello, looking for advice on whether I can use a similar mesh configuration with my 5G router- it’s not clear if you are supposed to replace your router with theses extenders - but because mines a 5G router I doubt that would work- what I need is something that can plug into an RG45 cable from the 5G router to extend the WI-FI. Is that how they can be setup?

the reason I use a 5G router is that the “broadband” speed I can get is scandalous, that’s despite having new box into the house and trying all the usual providers - slow and unreliable, all of them. One day they might put cable in the street but I’ve been waiting 20 years and only live a mile from the centre of Wakefield!

 

We have a 4g router (TP link archer MR600) as we can’t get broadband either, that has 4 outputs which we use to wire devices and then we have a couple of WiFi mesh extenders (TP Link RE300).

so you can use mesh with 5G ina similar way, just see if your router manufacturer does any mesh extenders for beat compatibility

 

I have just upgraded to a 5G router and use it as the main unit on a mesh, exactly as you suggested.

Set up:

We're 7 miles from exchange and have Fibre to Cabinet only so the best I can get on a line is 50Mbps

Rigged up an external antenna yesterday and been able to get much more speed too.

Speed:

Speed has dropped by the time you get to the living room, but at 90Mbps it's still far more than I used to get.