The internet connection to my apartment is far away from my TV and the computer connected to it. Running cables is not ideal, so I thought I would try a mesh network.

Floorplan

  1. Would 2 routers suffice, or would you recommend a third (mesh 2 in the picture).

  2. Internet is only 100/10 at the moment. would you recommend tri-band over dual-band?

At the moment I am looking at Deco S7 (3 nodes) or XE75 (2 nodes)

  • HighMagistrateGreef@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You don’t gain much putting an AP right at the edge of the footprint, eg where ‘mesh 2’ is in this diagram.

    Arguably you don’t even need a mesh2. But if you’ve bought it and are going to use it anyway, I’d move to closer to the center. Or maybe next to the main computer, since that spot you will probably want to get the best signal you can?