Deco Mesh issues

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Acid0

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Hi

I would like to hear from people that have a mesh setup.
We have a quite long house from the front of the house to the office.
The fibre was installed in the front of the house and the router is installed next to the fibre box.

The office is about +- 40 meters away from the router.
The house has very dense walls some is about 4 bricks thick instead of the normal double wall structures
Hence I installed a mesh in the house to get the wifi across the house and not jumping between different wifi connections.

We have a 100mb line, and in the front of the house we get about 60mb but in the back of the house it drops to 4 - 6mb
The mesh is setup as a star setup where the main mesh sits in the front of the house.

I have looked through some discussions and it seems the best method is to connect the furthest mesh unit directly in the router.
I am just not sure will it have two different wifi names if you do this, or is there an easier way to boost the signal to get full speed in the back of the house?
 
The best method is actually to connect your nodes through ethernet, not wifi. The weaker the signal, the slower the speed. It's a a pain but it's worth it. And even if you decide change your mesh's to another brand altogether, at least your cabling is done...
 
Is the main router a Deco or are you daisy-chaining ?
Reason I ask, I had a similar issue, until I actually spent a bit of money and bought 4x Deco X50 Outdoor to cover my Offices.
Have two offices with similar size and brick walls double thick with no speed loss.Upload a screenshot of your Deco manager (redact PII)
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I have a longish double story house. Got a mesh kit like this: https://www.amazon.co.za/TP-Link-Deco-XE75-AXE5400-Tri-Band/dp/B09ZRY9YHB

Kit is absolutely boss. It's powerful enough to get through the thick walls and floors. It would be better if I ran cabling for the back haul though, but it's too much effort for me. I pretty much max my 100Mb line in most areas of the house.
 
1st prize approach is to connect each mesh node to your router via ethernet.. That allows your WiFi to focus on serving clients, rather than serving clients and talking to your router..

If you don't want to backhaul via ethernet, the next option is to get a proper mesh kit that has a dedicated WiFi band for the backhaul.. that acts as the ethernet and leaves the rest of the WiFi free to serve clients..
 
Ethernet from router node to office node.

Will auto switch to Ethernet backhaul.

Same WiFi network.

Other nodes closer to office will also benefit.

Cable as many as possible. Use TP-Link/cheap Gigabit switch from router node to get more Ethernet ports.
 
If you use ethernet backhaul from the main mesh to another mesh unit, it picks up the ethernet automatically and you should have full speed. no need for another SSID.
You just have to run some cat6 to the back of the house from the main deco.
 
My brother has a similar issue, but running cables in his house will be a bit of mission. Ive wondered about this (but Ive not done any research), would these devices that runs a network over your power line not help to create the backhaul?

Something like this:

EDIT:
I guess this one will be better since it creates a gigabit network?

TP-Link AV1000 Gigabit Powerline Starter Kit : Amazon.co.za: Electronics

TP-Link AV1000 Gigabit Powerline Starter Kit : Amazon.co.za: Electronics
www.amazon.co.za
 
karnuffel said:
My brother has a similar issue, but running cables in his house will be a bit of mission. Ive wondered about this (but Ive not done any research), would these devices that runs a network over your power line not help to create the backhaul?

Something like this:

EDIT:
I guess this one will be better since it creates a gigabit network?

TP-Link AV1000 Gigabit Powerline Starter Kit : Amazon.co.za: Electronics

TP-Link AV1000 Gigabit Powerline Starter Kit : Amazon.co.za: Electronics
www.amazon.co.za
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I would rather run cables outside than use Powerline
 
HumanShield said:
If you use ethernet backhaul from the main mesh to another mesh unit, it picks up the ethernet automatically and you should have full speed. no need for another SSID.
You just have to run some cat6 to the back of the house from the main deco.
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Just to confirm all my decos are the S7 version.
Should I run a ethernet cable directly from the main unit to the one in the office to get full speed?
 
Acid0 said:
Just to confirm all my decos are the S7 version.
Should I run a ethernet cable directly from the main unit to the one in the office to get full speed?
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Yes.

S7 are still very good. Great WiFi range and penetration.
 
Acid0 said:
Just to confirm all my decos are the S7 version.
Should I run a ethernet cable directly from the main unit to the one in the office to get full speed?
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Yes you can do that. Better yet, you could get a 10 port switch. Main deco to switch, switch to other deco's via cable. That's my current setup.
 
To answer the underlying question the whole point of Mesh is to have one single wireless network managed by the “server” and hence once single SSID instead of letting the client bounce around trying to figure out what node has the best connection.

If your router is a deco then there’s no need to have a mesh there as the router itself will be one of the units.

40m is a hell of a long way for a wireless bridge, so running Ethernet between the two units is the quickest/best fix.
 
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