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Experts, help me hard wire a more reliable connection to my MR/MS80 mesh system for my home office.
Really hoping for some help. I will try to give all relevant details! My home office is located in a small studio building about 100' from the rear of the house. I have a mesh system using one M...
Thank you everyone, really appreciate all the useful help and it's solved! 🎉 (1) Yes, the old Actiontec MoCA adapter was a subpar companion to the goCOAX adapter. Happily, I found my second goCOAX, so have the same brand/model on each end of the coax. No splitters involved. (2) It helped to get an ethernet adapter for my laptop that actually worked, to check things. 🙄 I found this out while making sure the adapters were working. Fortunately, we had another lying around. (3) Once I confirmed that I had internet through the MoCA, I chose to set up my extra MR80 router in AP mode on the same network and unplugged the existing daisy-chained studio satellite. If I ever run into interference issues, I'll backhaul the satellite instead or, worst case, use MoCA as a dedicated ethernet connection but, who knows, maybe I can go nuts and put the satellite in the tool shed, even further back in the yard. — Thank you, again, for the quick and helpful responses.
I have an MR80/MS80 mesh system and a home office in a studio ~100' away from the house. The studio satellite's wifi was usually but not always reliable and folks here helped me troubleshoot establishing a MoCA connection from studio to the router (see discussion "Experts, help me hard wire a more reliable connection to my MR/MS80 mesh system for my home office" for more).
Since I default to "because I can," I chose to use the MoCA connection with a second MR80 router in AP mode, using the same SSID as the main router. That was fun and everything's stable but I do realize I've created a separate subnet and network by doing this.
Tomorrow I will clean this situation up. I can see 2 options: (1) Returning the studio satellite that connects to a house satellite by wifi to allow seamless roaming from the house (most of the time) and establishing a separate SSID for the MR80 router in the studio for a separate office network; (2) Simply replacing the studio's MR80 router with an MS80 satellite connected by wired ethernet backhaul to the main router for a single network throughout the house and studio.
Option 2 is clearly the simpler and probably the smarter solution. But, in the spirit of "because I can," any potential disasters lurking if I try option 1? Would the second router still show up as a connected device when I log into the main router via routerlogin.net with option 1?
Would you choose option 1 or option 2?
I've attached a figure with the original, current, and "future option" configurations for clarification.
Many thanks in advance.
The conversation began because Option 1 (MS80 "Daisy Chained" over WiFi to the house satellite) would fail and cause problems. I would not return to that situation. I see no advantage to having two networks in the studio.
Yes, the second router will show up on the primary system as a "connected device".