Mesh Wifi
My trusty old AC66u unfortunately does not provide great whole house wireless coverage.
I've been looking at either the Asus Lyra or the Linksys Velop Not sure if the Lyra is compatible with my router? Anyone own/used either of the above or can suggest alternatives? |
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Depends how you want to do it, and how many cables you want to run
I got one of these a while ago : https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It's POE - so a single cable going to it (it comes with a poe injector if you don't have a POE switch). Gives me better wifi than my router did, plus does other stuff (like a guest network). At the moment it's just sitting on my desk, but I'm aiming to mount it somewhere - and possibly buy another one for another part of the house. ... but it is a commercial grade AP - so set up isn't as straight forward (there's an app you need to use) - and then you need a controller - which can either be running on your desk top (but you lose reporting facilities if your desk top isn't on) - or (as I'm doing) run the controller on a raspberry pi - which then gives you a web front end for reporting, and controlling the guest network |
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I'm using BT's mesh offering at work and it works really well. I'm tempted to use the ASUS version at home as I have a ASUS router but the cost is a little eyewatering and my finance dept would probably veto the idea :(
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A friend tried the low end Tenda MW3 3 pack solution at ~£80 from Amazon. He seems very happy with it. Only a 100MHz LAN port but if this is fine then a good cheap house-wide mesh solution. Their MW6 is the next step up but is approx £150 .. |
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Meraki I hear is good, but after the licensing runs out you're left with an expensive paperweight. |
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I wasn’t sure if the Lyra and velop acted as repeaters and without cabling but if each unit needs a cable then I’ll go commercial because SSID block/spoofing etc :D |
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If you are happy with Asus then you just need to upgrade to a mesh wifi option
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-RT-AC6...36&sr=8-2&th=1 |
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Sorry i missed it. I was new to thread and read top and bottom skipped the middle.
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sorry both, my apologies for missing posts...
I have an AC66u so dont really want to buy a new router. I was hoping the lyra or velop would need only cable for the first unit... |
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Did you get a solution?
I’m thinking of buying this - https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/netw...ue-mesh-system |
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If you are quick, Amazon have a "used" one for £129: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-...condition=used |
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Any downsides? I once had the two satellites lose connection and had to reboot everything but this was once in a year. There isn't a web setup utility, you have to use a slightly clunky app but it covers most things. I had a small problem connecting a 2.4g kitchen device (Sous Vide Cooker - first world problems) but that was due to the phone I used to connect being on 5g. Once I sorted that, it was all good. |
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