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Nighthawk MR60
Hi everyone. I picked up a Nighthawk MR 60 with 2 satelites a couple of days ago when my older Netgeat N600 router bit the dust. I have a 3 story house with about 800 square feet on each floor, plast...
It is plaster lathe. Our 8 year old netgear N600 did ok w/ an extender into the basement (we have a stairwell in the middle of the house). But we are looking to do better. There is one bedroom (in between router and tile bathroom) that could not get much of a signal. Same with a bedroom in basement of house.
No way are these mesh points 30 feet from each other. I am not sure I have that much space to work with because of where electrical outlets and ethernet cable are (1938 house). I just put one on each floor. I unplugged the one in the attic. The one in the basement is probably 25 feet from the router. I am looking into how to get more distance. Or another solution.
Thanks for your reply.
You can have them closer. Its just that devices (phones/etc) might not roam as well. Meaning they can sometimes be connected the router/satellite that might be further away.
but they'll still work.
I'd try playing around with it a bit.
netgear has pretty great mesh systems (I've used several vendors) and they all operate fairly similar.
Try the wired backhauls and use it for a week or 2. Sometimes they need to "learn" which devices should be on 2.4ghz/5ghz.
when I first got into mesh systems I noticed more issues at the start with devices roaming between 2.4ghz/5ghz and having issues with new installs. Not as much anymore but maybe the MR60 series is similar.