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Best product for concrete
Good evening. I currently have 5 Linksys Velop mesh nodes in our 3700 square ft house that’s concrete and stucco. I’ve had such poor luck with them that Linksys has offered to refund my money. Can someone suggest something for me? Will Orbi work for me? Orbi Pro? I have lots of smart devices and computers as well. Thanks!
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H00pak wrote:
Good evening. I currently have 5 Linksys Velop mesh nodes in our 3700 square ft house that’s concrete and stucco. I’ve had such poor luck with them that Linksys has offered to refund my money. Can someone suggest something for me? Will Orbi work for me? Orbi Pro? I have lots of smart devices and computers as well. Thanks!If the interior walls are concrete, WiFi is going to struggle. Your best solution may be a masonry drill bit to poke holes to run ethernet cables through. Can you go "over the ceiling" or through a crawl space?
There are two technologies that have been useful: Powerline and MoCA.
- Powerline uses the existing electrical wiring to carry data signals. Bandwidth is not great and Powerline is "sensitive". I have three adapters that seem to work fine. When I added a fourth adapter, it became unstable and every so often just "quits". However, if it is successful, it would allow you to link the WiFi units at a higher speed than the WiFi signal currently does.
- MoCA is a similar technology using existing cable TV coax. If there is coax wiring running throughout the house already, then MoCA adapters could connect the WiFi units at a decent speed. I used MoCA to link my Tivo devices to each other and to my internet router. Worked fine but I resented the "nest of cables" and moved to Powerline.
My impression is that all WiFi radio signals are pretty much equal. If Velop cannot penetrate your walls, I doubt that any WiFi product will.
