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Advice on the best router for our needs
Hi All, and i hope that you can help. I need a new router and extender for our house and i am torn between a couple. I am hoping that those with experiance of these could present the pros and con...
2 ft thick stone walls?!
that's literally one of the worst case circumstances for wifi. Stone, cement, brick, metal all are great at blocking wifi. And yours is 2 ft thick. That's not just great at blocking wifi. Its a whole new level.
Best option? If you own the home, is to buy a really long masonary bit and drill a hold through the base of the walls and run an ethenet cable. Or go up and over the walls with the wiring. Use access points in the ceiling if they're not stone.
Mesh systems are great but if they're using the wireless backhaul they need a decent connection to work. that stone wall is going to make it pretty close to unusabe.
Any chance you have coax throughout the home? If so, you could use moca adapters (ethenet over coax) for a wired backhaul.
Either way, your best best is to find a way to wire in access points. Otherwise they're running off a poor performing wireless backhaul.