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I am looking for a wireless router that will provide complete wireless coverage for a rather large house. There are 6 rooms in the house and I am looking at a solution that will allow for excellent wireless coverage all around the house. I have wired CAT 6 cables in the hallway upstairs and downstairs (under the stairs) as well as in the kitchen which is at the back of the house.
The existing setup is a fibre to premises @ 1GB internet, which is in a cupboard by the staircase landing upstairs. I wired the fibre into the cupboard and there lies the ISP modem/router, my initial idea was to buy a wifi router and connect it to the Cat 6 cables, make the SSID & password the same and they would act as access points (the thinking here is that if a user roams around from upstairs to the kitchen, they would seemlessly connect to 2 different WIFI's, same name and same password). However recently I have been reading about wifi 6 and mesh networks and its got me thinking maybe thats what I need.
The number of users will be less than 10, however I couldn't tell the number of devices. Let us assume 50 here. There will be 5 main users, I am thinking of a router that could allow 5 SSID so that each user will have a dedicated SSID, when the user is no longer active I can change the SSID password rather than changing the password for a single SSID and affect a larger number of users.
I was looking at the TP-link Archer AX 6000, but I think a mesh router will do the job. I am looking for advice here on what system could work for me. The CAT 6 cable downstairs is under the stairs, which in hindsight I shouldnt have placed it here, as is it surrounded by stud walls.
In terms of budget, the budget for a router is £200, the existing router is behind a solid wall upstairs, no insulation between the floor joists i.e standard timber joists on the suspended floor and the building is an old 2 storey victorian terrace.
Any advice here would be appreciated.
I am looking for a wireless router that will provide complete wireless coverage for a rather large house. There are 6 rooms in the house and I am looking at a solution that will allow for excellent wireless coverage all around the house. I have wired CAT 6 cables in the hallway upstairs and downstairs (under the stairs) as well as in the kitchen which is at the back of the house.
The existing setup is a fibre to premises @ 1GB internet, which is in a cupboard by the staircase landing upstairs. I wired the fibre into the cupboard and there lies the ISP modem/router, my initial idea was to buy a wifi router and connect it to the Cat 6 cables, make the SSID & password the same and they would act as access points (the thinking here is that if a user roams around from upstairs to the kitchen, they would seemlessly connect to 2 different WIFI's, same name and same password). However recently I have been reading about wifi 6 and mesh networks and its got me thinking maybe thats what I need.
The number of users will be less than 10, however I couldn't tell the number of devices. Let us assume 50 here. There will be 5 main users, I am thinking of a router that could allow 5 SSID so that each user will have a dedicated SSID, when the user is no longer active I can change the SSID password rather than changing the password for a single SSID and affect a larger number of users.
I was looking at the TP-link Archer AX 6000, but I think a mesh router will do the job. I am looking for advice here on what system could work for me. The CAT 6 cable downstairs is under the stairs, which in hindsight I shouldnt have placed it here, as is it surrounded by stud walls.
In terms of budget, the budget for a router is £200, the existing router is behind a solid wall upstairs, no insulation between the floor joists i.e standard timber joists on the suspended floor and the building is an old 2 storey victorian terrace.
Any advice here would be appreciated.
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