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Couple of options, powerline a (TP link do good ones I’ve found) that use the copper in your electrics as conductors, giving you Ethernet via your plugs. I’ve found this great when living in an old stone/brick house where WiFi extended down the hall and that’s about it. Plug one end into the router, the other half of the pair near your computer and hey presto wired connection wherever you need it.
If you need wireless mesh then TP link would work, currys often have three node sets of WiFi 6 units around d me on shelves. If you don’t mind it being Amazon affiliated (I’m guessing by looking at Google nest you’re not overly worried about this), I’ve got the Eero pro6// Eero6 routers which just work. Wifi6, very small and unobtrusive (similar size to a roll of packing tape), and has couple of 1gb wired ports if you need them for anything. With the eero there are aftermarket “hangers” that allow you to hang it below a plug. Great if you have plugs not at floor level that are fairly out the way, that’s what I do for ones upstairs on my landing
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Mesh.
Our virgin router is currently plugged into a powerline thing - I want to say BT Homespot 1000 but may be inventing words.
Then I have another one at the other end of the house where I work and plug a desktop into the ethernet that comes out of it and connect a couple of laptops to it over wifi.
Unsurprisingly it's shit and slow. Added to flaky connections and underperforming speeds from Virgin (will be leaving asap), I need a better solution.
I'd like to be able to have very fast wifi wherever we are in the house - i.e. I can move a device around and not have to connect to a different network.
My understanding is that this is what 'mesh' is?
In the past I've looked at Google Nest because they have built in speakers. I like the idea of podcasts in different rooms (so no need for wild audio quality) and I don't want to have both our existing sonos as well as a new mesh hub that looks like the sonos both running at the same time in the same place. Have one thing with multiple purposes wins (until they break because they're overloading technology and not good at either purpose blah).
But then Google updated their Nest range and they no longer have speakers built in.
Does anyone have a set of the OG ones and care to comment if they're worth buying NOS e.g. from Toolstation? https://www.toolstation.com/google-nest-wifi-router-point/p46671?
Or should I just give up the dream of combining functions, in which case what are the best, smallest, least obtrusive options (am presuming they won't do well hidden in cupboards).