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I kind of have that.
Virgin hub in lounge, in modem mode. Ethernet to switch on the other side of the room by the tv/console, and also under the floor upstairs to a switch in the office. Then Amazon Eero's are plugged into the switches at the TV and in the office to do mesh wifi for the house.
(Eero does the router duties as the modem plugs into the WAN side of it rather than the switch)
So TV/Comp/Console are ethernet, mesh for the rest
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You just want a pair of conventional access points. You don't need mesh if you have Ethernet to each. Maybe put an access point at the front and back of the house? Same SSID, same Ethernet segment at the back. Clients will automatically switch to the strongest.
I have my router in the garage with an Ethernet switch. There are cables to some fixed devices in the house (dining room/study, master bedroom, loft room) and a pair of access points (dining room at front of ground floor, old airing cupboard at back of 1st floor).
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This is roughly what I do. All my Google Wifi APs are hard cabled for backhaul. I have a layer 2 gigabit switch plugged into my main Google AP for connecting things like Hue sync box etc
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Yep, as others have said, if you're running Ethernet everywhere then just plug in wireless access points at a couple of points to distribute the WiFi.
I have a couple of these https://www.4gon.co.uk/ubiquiti-unifi-ac-lite-access-point-uapaclite-p-6643.html connected to their router and devices switching between them is automatic.
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Wondering if there’s a kind-of half way mesh solution to this...
Virgin cable in, hub in modem mode then connect a proper router to that. Run Ethernet to office, garage for hardwired devices (computers, NAS etc) and another to the back of the house to hardwire a mesh router (if that’s even a thing, like a fancy access point?).
Alternatively, forego mesh and just get a crazy powerful router placed in the middle of the house and connect that to the virgin hub with a much longer cable and still have the other stuff hardwired in.
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