Weapons-grade home WiFi suggestions
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Tenda nova mw3 still going strong here, with only a tiny fly in the ointment.
After changing over to the mesh network, our Amazon echo would drop streams from radio or Spotify at frequent and random moments. Very frustrating.
With nothing more than a gut feeling, decided it was struggling to decide which node to connect to, and would swap intermittently, losing its stream.
As I couldn't find a satisfactory solution on the net, I have taken the echo off the mesh network, and reinstalled an old airport express as a standalone network just to run the echo off.
Which works fine from a reliability point of view, but because every other device in the house is connected to the mesh network, nothing will connect simply to the echo for Spotify streaming, as it obviously isn't on the same network.
Anyone had similar and found a solution?
After changing over to the mesh network, our Amazon echo would drop streams from radio or Spotify at frequent and random moments. Very frustrating.
With nothing more than a gut feeling, decided it was struggling to decide which node to connect to, and would swap intermittently, losing its stream.
As I couldn't find a satisfactory solution on the net, I have taken the echo off the mesh network, and reinstalled an old airport express as a standalone network just to run the echo off.
Which works fine from a reliability point of view, but because every other device in the house is connected to the mesh network, nothing will connect simply to the echo for Spotify streaming, as it obviously isn't on the same network.
Anyone had similar and found a solution?
vladcjelli said:
Tenda nova mw3 still going strong here, with only a tiny fly in the ointment.
After changing over to the mesh network, our Amazon echo would drop streams from radio or Spotify at frequent and random moments. Very frustrating.
With nothing more than a gut feeling, decided it was struggling to decide which node to connect to, and would swap intermittently, losing its stream.
As I couldn't find a satisfactory solution on the net, I have taken the echo off the mesh network, and reinstalled an old airport express as a standalone network just to run the echo off.
Which works fine from a reliability point of view, but because every other device in the house is connected to the mesh network, nothing will connect simply to the echo for Spotify streaming, as it obviously isn't on the same network.
Anyone had similar and found a solution?
I have the same problem as does my sister at her house. Nothing I could find online has a solution. After changing over to the mesh network, our Amazon echo would drop streams from radio or Spotify at frequent and random moments. Very frustrating.
With nothing more than a gut feeling, decided it was struggling to decide which node to connect to, and would swap intermittently, losing its stream.
As I couldn't find a satisfactory solution on the net, I have taken the echo off the mesh network, and reinstalled an old airport express as a standalone network just to run the echo off.
Which works fine from a reliability point of view, but because every other device in the house is connected to the mesh network, nothing will connect simply to the echo for Spotify streaming, as it obviously isn't on the same network.
Anyone had similar and found a solution?
However I only run a single MW6 so it can’t be that it is unsure which node to connect to.
Rick101 said:
I can't get WiFi in the garden, maybe 10 meters from the mesh point.
Travelling through glass? I have issues with any WiFi signal that has to travel at an acute angle through glass. I think I'm going to invest in an outdoor AP for those times when the patio doors are shut.Outdoor wifi? I came up with a real simple solution after spending ages thinking how I could best run the cable. I didn't want to drill any holes so in the end I didn't. I have a Ubiquiti external POE AP on a short upstand with a long flylead. I just plug it into the switch when I need it and site it wherever I want. When it's not in use it lives in the garage. I'm never going to use the wifi outdoors when the weather's bad so why bother with a permanent solution.
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vladcjelli said:
As I couldn't find a satisfactory solution on the net, I have taken the echo off the mesh network, and reinstalled an old airport express as a standalone network just to run the echo off.
Which works fine from a reliability point of view, but because every other device in the house is connected to the mesh network, nothing will connect simply to the echo for Spotify streaming, as it obviously isn't on the same network.
Anyone had similar and found a solution?
Assuming you use a different main broadband router as well then if you configure the airport express and the tenda to be in bridge mode then all your devices will be on the same network.Which works fine from a reliability point of view, but because every other device in the house is connected to the mesh network, nothing will connect simply to the echo for Spotify streaming, as it obviously isn't on the same network.
Anyone had similar and found a solution?
In my experience streaming issues are what differentiates good Wi-Fi equipment from less good Wi-Fi equipment! The Tenda is mostly good value though.
ecs0set said:
Rick101 said:
I can't get WiFi in the garden, maybe 10 meters from the mesh point.
Travelling through glass? I have issues with any WiFi signal that has to travel at an acute angle through glass. I think I'm going to invest in an outdoor AP for those times when the patio doors are shut.Can anyone recommend a powerline wifi AP?
I have just got Sky broadband with a Sky Q router. Speed next to the box is 60 Mbs so I want to keep it (twice as fast as old provider) but the wifi drops off terribly with distance- 10 Mbs about 5/6 metres away with one masonry wall, and other parts of the house have one or two old external walls to get through. It seems this is a common problem. I have a spare cable router (TP Link Archer C7 AC 1750) which I am tempted to try and set up as an access point via ethernet from the Sky Q box as the wifi signal from that worked far better, but it will still need extending across the house. I thought if I connected some other access points to powerline LAN (running LAN cables is probably impossible) that may get good speed broadband around the house. You can get Gigabit and even 2 Gigabit powerline adaptors it seems (TP Link) so if i use those to get the signal across, then inexpensive Wifi Access points?
I..e. thinking of something to sort out the wifi from the Sky Q router, then power line networking across the house / to include any fixed devices, then a wifi AP at that end to hopefully cover that part of the house, with wifi on the other side being covered by whatever i use to replace the Sky Q router wifi which is terrible.
I have just got Sky broadband with a Sky Q router. Speed next to the box is 60 Mbs so I want to keep it (twice as fast as old provider) but the wifi drops off terribly with distance- 10 Mbs about 5/6 metres away with one masonry wall, and other parts of the house have one or two old external walls to get through. It seems this is a common problem. I have a spare cable router (TP Link Archer C7 AC 1750) which I am tempted to try and set up as an access point via ethernet from the Sky Q box as the wifi signal from that worked far better, but it will still need extending across the house. I thought if I connected some other access points to powerline LAN (running LAN cables is probably impossible) that may get good speed broadband around the house. You can get Gigabit and even 2 Gigabit powerline adaptors it seems (TP Link) so if i use those to get the signal across, then inexpensive Wifi Access points?
I..e. thinking of something to sort out the wifi from the Sky Q router, then power line networking across the house / to include any fixed devices, then a wifi AP at that end to hopefully cover that part of the house, with wifi on the other side being covered by whatever i use to replace the Sky Q router wifi which is terrible.
Spoke to the Google support team yesterday about my signal issues.
Very helpful but the short story is they ask you to do a system reset. The conclusion was that Google WiFi is not strong enough to reach through two walls.
But dissapointing. I'm back to questioning whether money is now best spent on a £20 booster as the camera is no more than 7 metres from the Google WiFi and about 2m from a power socket.
Very helpful but the short story is they ask you to do a system reset. The conclusion was that Google WiFi is not strong enough to reach through two walls.
But dissapointing. I'm back to questioning whether money is now best spent on a £20 booster as the camera is no more than 7 metres from the Google WiFi and about 2m from a power socket.
t, i also had the additional acess point but it seemed to make it no better. I need a better mesh solution that doesnt replace the sky router unless anyone can recomend.a replacement modem that will work 
Anyone found a decent way to boost a Virgin media hub?
We have one room in particular that seems to struggle. Not far from the router, but perhaps the walls cause it trouble.
Not keen to use Powerline: used in the past here, and because the base is downstairs and the troublesome room up, the Powerline dropped about 90% throughput (crossing breakers on the circuit board - extending downstairs was fine!).
Virgin appear to recommend a Netgear Powerline WiFi 1000.
Thx!
We have one room in particular that seems to struggle. Not far from the router, but perhaps the walls cause it trouble.
Not keen to use Powerline: used in the past here, and because the base is downstairs and the troublesome room up, the Powerline dropped about 90% throughput (crossing breakers on the circuit board - extending downstairs was fine!).
Virgin appear to recommend a Netgear Powerline WiFi 1000.
Thx!
mikeiow said:
Anyone found a decent way to boost a Virgin media hub?
We have one room in particular that seems to struggle. Not far from the router, but perhaps the walls cause it trouble.
Not keen to use Powerline: used in the past here, and because the base is downstairs and the troublesome room up, the Powerline dropped about 90% throughput (crossing breakers on the circuit board - extending downstairs was fine!).
Virgin appear to recommend a Netgear Powerline WiFi 1000.
Thx!
Stick the “superhub” in model mode, and the buy a router and WiFi solution that works. We have one room in particular that seems to struggle. Not far from the router, but perhaps the walls cause it trouble.
Not keen to use Powerline: used in the past here, and because the base is downstairs and the troublesome room up, the Powerline dropped about 90% throughput (crossing breakers on the circuit board - extending downstairs was fine!).
Virgin appear to recommend a Netgear Powerline WiFi 1000.
Thx!
Mr E said:
mikeiow said:
Anyone found a decent way to boost a Virgin media hub?
We have one room in particular that seems to struggle. Not far from the router, but perhaps the walls cause it trouble.
Not keen to use Powerline: used in the past here, and because the base is downstairs and the troublesome room up, the Powerline dropped about 90% throughput (crossing breakers on the circuit board - extending downstairs was fine!).
Virgin appear to recommend a Netgear Powerline WiFi 1000.
Thx!
Stick the “superhub” in modem mode, and the buy a router and WiFi solution that works. We have one room in particular that seems to struggle. Not far from the router, but perhaps the walls cause it trouble.
Not keen to use Powerline: used in the past here, and because the base is downstairs and the troublesome room up, the Powerline dropped about 90% throughput (crossing breakers on the circuit board - extending downstairs was fine!).
Virgin appear to recommend a Netgear Powerline WiFi 1000.
Thx!
I'm on a VM superhub 3, compared to the SHub 1 its ace, but... even in our 3 bed terrace it still struggles to reach the end of the house despite being sited centrally. I use power lines with minimal loss (80-90 of a 110 Mbit connection) but do have annoying infrequent dropouts and no way to control access like I could with the M5's through software (kids times, bedtimes etc)
I'm giving thought to the TP-Link Deco M5 3 pack.
I've discounted the Tenda rubik's cube things due to dodgy software etc.
People are saying I should get the M9 instead of the M5 because it's twice as fast etc, but I'm not sure if they're thinking of commercial usage. My house isn't a typical PH Mansion and I'm only on 110 Mbit in any case. The Deco's also come with dual ethernet ports which would be good for my upstairs smart tv which as ethernet ports.
Cost is a consideration too, the 2 pack of M9 is a lot more than the 3 pack of the M5 (3 physical units with Ethernet ports would be more versatile than 2 as well)
Thoughts/Ideas?
I'm giving thought to the TP-Link Deco M5 3 pack.
I've discounted the Tenda rubik's cube things due to dodgy software etc.
People are saying I should get the M9 instead of the M5 because it's twice as fast etc, but I'm not sure if they're thinking of commercial usage. My house isn't a typical PH Mansion and I'm only on 110 Mbit in any case. The Deco's also come with dual ethernet ports which would be good for my upstairs smart tv which as ethernet ports.
Cost is a consideration too, the 2 pack of M9 is a lot more than the 3 pack of the M5 (3 physical units with Ethernet ports would be more versatile than 2 as well)
Thoughts/Ideas?
Edited by techguyone on Sunday 22 September 09:55
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