Mesh WiFi routers

[Steevo]

Anyone got a system they recommend?

Have a Linksys Velop setup here and very disappointed by it.
Read a few reviews of other systems and they are a pretty mixed bag too despite £300-400 price tags!

Very tempted to junk the lot, put in a Draytek router and a UniFi UFO in the loft. It’s not a cheap option though.

 

[An Gof]

I am also Agonising over a mesh system but have no idea which is best. I’ve read all the reviews online in the past few weeks but all makes seem beset with problems. Read the reviews on Amazon and most makes all seem to have around 10% of 1* ratings. Those are the ratings to read.
I really want a a system to work but really don’t know what is the beat and most reliable for and farmhouse with thick walls.

 

[milkloss]

Ubiquiti

 

[JonL]

BT Whole home Wi-Fi in the house, unifi in the yard/farm buildings. Would recommend unifi. Have various older ubiquiti products and have only ever had 1 failure in 10 years. Remarkably reliable

 

[Boysground]

Anyone got a system they recommend?

Have a Linksys Velop setup here and very disappointed by it.
Read a few reviews of other systems and they are a pretty mixed bag too despite £300-400 price tags!

Very tempted to junk the lot, put in a Draytek router and a UniFi UFO in the loft. It’s not a cheap option though.

I put a velop system in so that I could get decent Wi-fi to the right part of the house for my daughter could do her uni finals. Like you I have been really disappointed. It’s not often I have all 4 boxes talking to each other and it is such a pain setting it all from the app.

I couldn’t recommend it to anyone and having spent a lot of money I have really tried with it.

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[Steevo]

I put a velop system in so that I could get decent Wi-fi to the right part of the house for my daughter could do her uni finals. Like you I have been really disappointed. It’s not often I have all 4 boxes talking to each other and it is such a pain setting it all from the app.

I couldn’t recommend it to anyone and having spent a lot of money I have really tried with it.

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Sounds like just my trouble. Sometimes nodes drop, or some devices (usually TVs) decide they will only connect to the furthest node!

Never been disappointed by Uniquiti UniFi so I think one of their discs in the attic solves the wireless bit, and then a proper router to connect to the separate modem.

 

[Alwayshappy]

Amazon eero system works really well and easy to setup, much better than previous netgear system and reasonably priced.

 

[24/7 farming]

I have 4 of these sprawled over the house and never have a bother. Going about 2 months nw and never had to do anything wit them. They have a function that resets them every night and think it's a big part of what keeps them sweet.

 

[upnortheast]

Got the BT discs here. They work fine. One is in another building so out of sight of its mates so cat5 connection.
Elsewhere on the site we have individual access points. Again work fine. Once your devices have been logged in once they seamlessly connect to the nearest unit,
So in practice little difference to a mesh system & cheaper individual access points

 

[___\0/___]

Working with the bt whole home disc things which works ok, our biggest improvement was when we replaced our home hub modem thing with a Draytek one.

 

[Steevo]

Working with the bt whole home disc things which works ok, our biggest improvement was when we replaced our home hub modem thing with a Draytek one.

Which model do you have?

 

[___\0/___]

Which model do you have?

Vigor 2762vac purely got that model as I might need to use 4g at some point, you do need to go online as their is a bit of fiddling about with ip addresses etc (it isnt just plug and play) which takes about 20 minutes following the provided instructions.

I wouldn't say range isn't much better but stability and speed is so would still need range extenders of some kind in a big house.

 

[Steevo]

Vigor 2762vac purely got that model as I might need to use 4g at some point, you do need to go online as their is a bit of fiddling about with ip addresses etc (it isnt just plug and play) which takes about 20 minutes following the provided instructions.

I wouldn't say range isn't much better but stability and speed is so would still need range extenders of some kind in a big house.

Thanks. I have a separate fibre modem here so I only really need a router to do the "routing", and would then add a Unifi AC UFO in the loft to do the wireless bit.

Seems a bit complicated with three separate parts, but the modem is hardwired to the fibre, and the Unifi wifi I know is good kit.

 

[Bloders]

i use BT Wholehome.
What i like about them is since COVID, Mrs Bloders needed to work from home with a desktop computer. Just ran a cat 5 cable from the disc to her computer and its been fine. Went so far as to buy another disc so it was next to her desk to save the clutter of cables etc.
The one down side, is this laptop often loses connection, so i have to disconnect and reconnect. Annoying.
No other issues at all.

 

[steveR]

I am also Agonising over a mesh system but have no idea which is best. I’ve read all the reviews online in the past few weeks but all makes seem beset with problems. Read the reviews on Amazon and most makes all seem to have around 10% of 1* ratings. Those are the ratings to read.
I really want a a system to work but really don’t know what is the beat and most reliable for and farmhouse with thick walls.

Powerline adapter kit internally.

To push a signal out from the house into the garden/yard, I have put a Wavlink access point, 20m of ethernet and POE. Some issues with it dropping out from the Draytek, but works.

 

[neilo]

Any updates on this?

I have an Aus router and a couple of Asus mesh nodes, and fed up with the WiFi dropping out. Fantastic coverage when it's working, but several drop outs a day for no good reason. I have now changed the router set up so that the plusnet/BT router is doing modem part of things, then the Asus gear is sorting the WiFi..... but just the same. Had enough now.

Has anyone any better experience with other systems? Looking at Amazon eero, or maybe just add some BT discs (which must surely just be rebranded units from somewhere cheaper?).

 

[steveR]

No experience, but I have been doing some furtling around in anticipation, and the Linksys AX4200 mesh system has some excellent reviews and will tempt me.

I do know of a farming friend who gave up on mesh, and went back to a wifi over powerline system! Big old place, and thick walls.

 

[Alchad]

From another Forum, see last post

WiFi Mesh Coverage.

WiFi Mesh Coverage.

www.series2club.co.uk

Alchad

 

[Steevo]

Still not a great fan of the Linksys system here.

Had a computer chap here recently and he was having issues connecting to it. I quizzed him and he rated the Ubiquiti system and said he'd had experience of Linksys doing funny things in the past. I can't quite understand why they use IP addresses as 10.173.1.xx as opposed to the standard 192.168.0.xx either.

 

[Boysground]

Thick walls here and we have just done some work on a room. As I could get the floorboards up I ran 3 data cables from my office where the router lives. 1 is into the tv, instant streaming rather than waiting for a iffy wifi connection is definitely the way to go.

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