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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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Same SSID, same Ethernet segment at the back. Clients will automatically switch to the strongest
The faff with non mesh stuff I think can be since they're technically separate networks then you can have problems with devices on different but same named WLANs talking to each other.
Probably not an issue if you just want your phone to connect to wifi, but if you have one thing as a host on one WLAN, and a client on a different one
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Yeah this sounds like it - when you say same Ethernet segment, what does that mean? Might as well have them as different names/networks as phones etc should switch over to strongest, no?
duncs
Well_is_it
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.