Though better with the typos removed!
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Interesting, thank you for taking the time to reply.
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In fairness any so called mesh network really needs to be wired in via ethernet. I highly recommend for those that have not to invest in upgrading your home network with ethernet to each room if you can, the quality of life difference this makes cannot be under estimated.
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I concur.
All my four mesh nodes are hard wired which gives me 230 mbs over Wi-Fi, all over house, on a 200 mbs Giagclear full fibre system.
DG…
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I only have 70bps WiFi but it seems to work okay both for work and hifi without EOP. I have Qobuz set on 24 bit as well.
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Absolutely, and some of us have been banging that drum for years now, and it’s good to read of more and more people appreciating the benefits of doing it.
Mesh nodes or overlapping APs, it’s really the same in the vast majority of setups with the former being more of a marketing term.
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I find with Mesh networks with routers hardwired I have far fewer smart home connectivity issues. A single SSID throughout the house for stable communications between devices and for automations.
I do hardwire TVs, Streamers, and Desktop Computers for improved WiFi bandwidth.
I don’t see MoCa mentioned anywhere. If you do have coax near your hifi, do look into MoCa adapters. It’s the next best thing after cat5e ethernet wiring. That (MoCa) and mesh wifi are the best computer network investments for me. (Moca is multimedia over coax)
@Andreas.ca it might be a case of using the wrong terms, but on your home network you only want to ideally have one wired router connecting to your broadband access. Your wifi access points (APs) yes should ideally be ethernet connected to your home LAN via switch ports for optimum performance.
I think you are saying that when you ethernet connect your Access Points to your router (perhaps via one or more switches) you have far fewer connectivity issues? If so indeed that is what you should expect and it’s great it works for you. I nearly always recommend ethernet backhauling APs. It also gives the option of powering them via PoE
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For clarity. I have mesh WiFi routers hardwired together (backhaul is hardwired not wifi) with one of these routers hardwired to my fibre optic access point. Currently my WiFi ranges from no lower than 400 to over 700Mbps throughout my house.
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Ok - just be mindful in terms of networking these are not actually routers (they are likely network bridges) - but in terms of wifi they are Mesh nodes or if you have them ethernet connected they are called Wireless Access Points, and together they create a WLAN.
Glad it’s all working for you via ethernet through to your fibre broadband router. (For your information routers join separate networks together like Internet from your home LAN. If you had many separate subnets each with their own separate network addresses and separate gateway addresses connected to each other then you would need to route between them with a router. However UPnP does not work across routed networks - without specialist helping software specific to your upnp implementation)
Some home network consumer product marketing departments uses terms that are not correct in their networking component sense - I personally think it causes confusion in consumer forums like this - but ho hum - particularly if you are wanting to use networks to support you other than for trivial setups you need to understand the differences between the networking terms like routers, switches and APs or you can get yourself in a right pickle or be limited to one brands marketing product names. But ‘routers’, ‘mesh’, ‘network bridges’, ‘hubs’ are often terms used for consumer /domestic marketing reasons rather than what they actually are. Google consumer are notorious for this.
Simon
Exactly what I have done, a ‘Mesh’ system energised via PoE …
Single cables, easy routing of cables, stable WiFi over the entire house.
(And don’t forget to turn off the WiFi from the internet “router”!)
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Excellent Xanthe - BTW you don’t necessarily need to turn off the wifi on your router if it has a separate SSID - but it makes sense to so they don’t interfere with each other on the radio spectrum.
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Indeed, but if you don’t, a mobile device may connect to that. If you move, it may lose connection or the connection quality may degrade as it won’t necessarily automatically change SSID to re-connect to the better quality of the mesh in other areas of the house.
Turning off the WiFi from the “router” simplifies things.
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yep - certainly simplifies things and helps avoid confusion
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It’s really nice… the WiFi … just works!
Change from the default SSID, then connect once (with a strong pass code!); all done no bother at all after that.
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Indeed - I don’t know why everyone does not spend a little effort getting a quality wifi system with mostly ethernet connected APs and a controller (which can be cloud or local) - it just tends to work and transforms wifi into something that just works and is always reliably there.
I think the quality of wifi solution for consumers has really taken a step forward recently… no doubt because of more demanding uses, and increased clients such IoT devices that all need to share the same network.
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Ok so if you read the manual they do indeed say there is one router - they call it the gateway (which is the old term for router) - you connect that to your WAN - ie internet. You connect the other other Eero devices as ethernet connected or wireless to act as wireless APs or Mesh nodes…
The RJ45 sockets on most eero products is configurable for WAN (ie the router) or LAN (ie the AP or mesh node)
So the ’ Amazon eero Pro mesh Wifi Router ’ is simply a product name - of a device that can act as a single Wireless router or either ethernet connected access points or wireless mesh nodes - or combinations there of. it looks like each device has at least one RJ45 socket that can either configured as LAN or WAN - WAN being the gateway/router device.
It looks quite similar to the BT SH2 and Complete Home wifi AP/mesh disc system.
So there - there wasn’t too much of a disturbance in the universe after all.
If it helps this ink might be useful Wireless access point vs. router: What's the difference? | TechTarget
LOL.
The reason I bought a pair of well supported consumer oriented wifi mesh routers was so I didn’t have to read networking manuals.
I had the same setup with my previous wifi routers. The Apple AirPort Extremes but without mesh.
Have a great day.