Weapons-grade home WiFi suggestions

[troc]

I’ve had Fritzboxes with previous internet setups and always been impressed with their stability, functionality and reliability. Pretty sure they are standard issue with most German providers.

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Quite impressed with the uptime of my ISP provided router-



(although I do use Opnsense behind it, along with some Omada access points)

[megaphone]

KobayashiMaru86 said:

Gone to FTTP last week but they reused the Home Hub which is coming up to 5yrs old and doesn't seem much faster. The test to the hub says it is over the 500mb I'm supposed to get but Wifi is barely 100mb when I'm in the same room. I either replace the router for a better one or go for a full mesh setup. TP-Link seem OK and am using them for Powerline currently which works fine. Was recommended one of the Archer models for the router or go Deco XE75 for the mesh.

You need to ensure you're connecting to 5Ghz (ac 'wifi 5') and you'll probably need to increase the bandwidth of the wifi to 80mhz if you can. That said you'll struggle to get 500mbs on ac.

Edited by megaphone on Friday 13th June 17:29

[gangzoom]

KobayashiMaru86 said:

Gone to FTTP last week but they reused the Home Hub which is coming up to 5yrs old and doesn't seem much faster. The test to the hub says it is over the 500mb I'm supposed to get but Wifi is barely 100mb when I'm in the same room. I either replace the router for a better one or go for a full mesh setup. TP-Link seem OK and am using them for Powerline currently which works fine. Was recommended one of the Archer models for the router or go Deco XE75 for the mesh.

What's the signal strength like around the rest of the house? I spent yesterday evening moving every device from the old AC/WiFi 5 mesh to the WiFi 6 setup. For the very small cost you can get WiFi6 mesh setups now, under £100 for 3 nodes on eBay, and how much modern homes runs off WiFi (we have around 30 connected devices), if you are asking the question I think the answer is pretty straightforwards .

[KobayashiMaru86]

I was more thinking do I change the hub first or just get a mesh setup anyway. If meshes are that cheap I may as well. Ideally one I can make separate wifi networks so stick all the IoT stuff on one and everything else on the main.