Reliable Mesh WiFi

[neilo]

I've had enough now! I have FTTP with four Asus CT8 routers set up to provide Mesh WiFi round the farmhouse. Most of the time it's fantastic, providing high speed wifi with no dead zones. However, it regularly drops out for up to a minute, probably a dozen times a day.
All the firmware is up to date and all settings fine, so cant see what I can do to improve on it. I know it's a relatively old system now, but it should still be reliable. I have a ubiquiti wifi bridge set up to the camera in the lambing shed and providing wifi (for mobile calls mostly) in the yard, which has been up for many years without a single dropout that I know of.

Can anyone recommend a reliable system, before these Asus things start hitting the wall? TIA.

 

[Jerry]

Have a Ubiquiti stuff around the farmhouse and it’s been very good.

 

[Matt77]

We have Netgear Orbi stuff spreading wifi around the yard and office, it's been very impressive for the 3 years we've had it.

 

[Kidds]

Have TP-Link Deco X50 WiFi 6 Mesh here as recommended by a techy friend.
Had it 18 months and never had any issues. Runs ring cameras 50 yards down the garden fine as well as all the stuff in the house. Missus is constantly watching streaming TV and it has no issues.

 

[t.eddie]

I have a mercusys one from amazon, seems pretty good had it for about a year, only trouble we have is if our actual Internet plays up it will obviously impact the mesh system

 

[JCB_JCR]

Got some TP link deco units here as well. Happy with them. Wife had to keep resetting router for work connection before we got them.

 

[sheepdogtrail]

I've had enough now! I have FTTP with four Asus CT8 routers set up to provide Mesh WiFi round the farmhouse. Most of the time it's fantastic, providing high speed wifi with no dead zones. However, it regularly drops out for up to a minute, probably a dozen times a day.
All the firmware is up to date and all settings fine, so cant see what I can do to improve on it. I know it's a relatively old system now, but it should still be reliable. I have a ubiquiti wifi bridge set up to the camera in the lambing shed and providing wifi (for mobile calls mostly) in the yard, which has been up for many years without a single dropout that I know of.

Can anyone recommend a reliable system, before these Asus things start hitting the wall? TIA.

Double check to make sure each router is on the same channel.

Scan the air for other wifi devices that are not yours that could be on the same channel.

If possible, set your system up to be on a channel that no other person is using in your air space.

 

[Boysground]

I have a linksys setup. App is a pain and the boxes temperamental. Has been better since i hard wired a couple of them while we were doing some work on the house.

I would wire as much as you can. Have a wire straight to the main tv and watch almost everything via the internet.

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[Jimfandango]

I have netgear which is fine. Bro has tp link deco which he really likes too

 

[markc]

hi we have some tp decos s4 model set of three, had them 2 and a half years now v good used to get lots of buffering on tv thats gone.
paid 95 quid. seem to be alot more money now though

 

[Oldmacdonald]

So I want to continue to use 4G internet, through an external antenna to my router, and all on a mesh system.

What router and nodes do I go for?

Value for money key as well as reliability!