Anyone in here any decent experiences of mesh networks? As you may recall I was looking to change internet providers and in the end decided to stick with British Telecom (BT). I did buy a Velp mesh system but that proved unreliable and has gone back to Amazon. So..........
What I'm looking to achieve is to put a mesh network in the house (3 bedroom semi-detached UK). At the moment we use a BT Home Hub 6 router/modem but as that does not support being dumbed down to acting only as a modem then a new plain modem is needed which will work with the BT Telecoms Fibre 1 service (vDSL using DSL PPPOE connection). The plan is to buy a DrayTek Vigor 130 VDSL2/ADSL Fibre (FTTP/BT Infinity) Ethernet Modem which will replace the HH6.
The modem and prime mesh node would be in the dining room and the secondary node would be in the home office upstairs diametrically opposite. This secondary node would be used for WiFi and also LAN port connectivity for a workstation / tablets. It would also need to be connected to the primary node via WiFi, running a LAN cable between the two is not feasible.
Another requirement is that the WiFi SSIDs (2.4Ghz & 5Ghz) to be splittable so that I can maintain the main network on the 2.4Ghz band as a some Homekit devices I have are only 2.4Ghz compatible.
So far:
- Velop no goos due to constant disconnections of the nodes and poor WiFi throughput.
- Eero is out as it does not support PPPOE.
- BT Whole home is out as you can't split the SSID's or I believe turn off the 5Ghz Band.
- Ubiquti are out as it looks like their wireless AP's are WiFI only with no LAN port.
- Orbi are nearly there even though separate SSIDs have to be put in place via a telnet hack.
The fave solution so far is using a Asus ZenWiFi AX with the DrayTek Vigor 130 modem. Looks to have all the specs I need and good reviews.
Any thoughts or recommendations are appreciated guys.
What I'm looking to achieve is to put a mesh network in the house (3 bedroom semi-detached UK). At the moment we use a BT Home Hub 6 router/modem but as that does not support being dumbed down to acting only as a modem then a new plain modem is needed which will work with the BT Telecoms Fibre 1 service (vDSL using DSL PPPOE connection). The plan is to buy a DrayTek Vigor 130 VDSL2/ADSL Fibre (FTTP/BT Infinity) Ethernet Modem which will replace the HH6.
The modem and prime mesh node would be in the dining room and the secondary node would be in the home office upstairs diametrically opposite. This secondary node would be used for WiFi and also LAN port connectivity for a workstation / tablets. It would also need to be connected to the primary node via WiFi, running a LAN cable between the two is not feasible.
Another requirement is that the WiFi SSIDs (2.4Ghz & 5Ghz) to be splittable so that I can maintain the main network on the 2.4Ghz band as a some Homekit devices I have are only 2.4Ghz compatible.
So far:
- Velop no goos due to constant disconnections of the nodes and poor WiFi throughput.
- Eero is out as it does not support PPPOE.
- BT Whole home is out as you can't split the SSID's or I believe turn off the 5Ghz Band.
- Ubiquti are out as it looks like their wireless AP's are WiFI only with no LAN port.
- Orbi are nearly there even though separate SSIDs have to be put in place via a telnet hack.
The fave solution so far is using a Asus ZenWiFi AX with the DrayTek Vigor 130 modem. Looks to have all the specs I need and good reviews.
Any thoughts or recommendations are appreciated guys.