Gigaclear, Unifi and extending coverage

[JABB]

I have Gigaclear broadband, so am stuck with their modem, but I have an AC lite connected and set up in the kitchen. This covers 90% of the house well. If I move it to catch one end, I loose coverage the other end of the house. I have also noticed quite a bit of buffering towards the edge of the range.

Therefore I wish to improve.

Is there anyway of totally bypassing the gigaclear kit?

And regards the routers and ACs

Should I replace the lite with a pro or LR?

Or I can move the existing lite back towards one end, and put another the other end of the house. I think I can get cat 6 out and along the outside wall before coming back into the loft.

Or what about the AC outdoor MESH unit, mounted in the loft?

All advice will be valid and researched, and thank you in advance.

[outnumbered]

If you've got a big house or thick walls, having a single more powerful access point might not help - even if your devices can then see the AP from everywhere, the devices might still not have enough power to communicate back to the AP. I'm using two wired Unifi APs in a large-ish house.

I don't have any direct experience of this mode, but you could get another AC-LITE and try it in Mesh mode, without needing to run another cable. https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150022623...

[JABB]

outnumbered said:

If you've got a big house or thick walls, having a single more powerful access point might not help - even if your devices can then see the AP from everywhere, the devices might still not have enough power to communicate back to the AP. I'm using two wired Unifi APs in a large-ish house.

I don't have any direct experience of this mode, but you could get another AC-LITE and try it in Mesh mode, without needing to run another cable. https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150022623...

Thanks for the input.
So, if I use 2 APs, one one end and the other, the other end, and se the same SSID, will they all be the same network, so Amazon and Kasa products are all together on the same network?

[poing]

I haven't tried the Lite on a mesh but can confirm the little ac-m outdoor one works beautifully in a mesh with either a pro or ac-m-pro. Piece of cake to set up, just adopt it and enable wifi mesh, it did the rest. Without using their wifi analyser tool it was hard to tell which AP I was connected to as it worked so well.

Everything uses the same SSID etc so it all works as you expect.

[Jobbo]

We have Gigaclear and I’ve bypassed the router almost entirely - turned off WiFi on it and plugged in Google WiFi (a mesh system, so only the first WiFi point is cabled to the Gigaclear router).