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I have a 1,450 sf one storey house and am looking to upgrade my wifi coverage and strength in the house and ideally reach out to the back patio. I currently have a Netgear R7000P as the main router. It is in the basement roughly central in the floor plan. I also have two access points connected via CAT6. A Netgear R6400 in the basement at the back of the house and a TP-Link Archer C7 on the main floor at the front of the house. I have 750 Mbps internet service from my ISP. I don't have many wifi 6 devices, just two Galaxy S20 phones.
A lot of times our phones, tablets, or laptops will stay connected to the R7000P, even if we are at the front or back of the house. Using a wifi analyzer app it seems this is because the R7000P signal is still reasonable in those areas (pretty close to the strength of the 6400 or C7) such that even turning Wi-Fi off and then on again it still connects back to the 7000P. However, the transfer rate is always down around 200-300 Mbps (wifi analyzer shows the connection as 500-650 Mbps). The kids are doing remote video calls for school and we’re doing video calls for work and some 4K streaming so I’m looking to upgrade to increase the throughput.
Given this behaviour I’m thinking it might be better to get a better single router and get rid of the access points? I was looking at a few Asus models that are on sale for similar price: RT-AC86U ($200), RT-AX82U ($250), RT-AX92U ($250). Which of these would be better in my situation?
Also, if I used AIMesh with wired back haul would it transfer the clients better so they can obtain higher throughput?
Thanks very much for your help and advice. It’s greatly appreciated!
I have a 1,450 sf one storey house and am looking to upgrade my wifi coverage and strength in the house and ideally reach out to the back patio. I currently have a Netgear R7000P as the main router. It is in the basement roughly central in the floor plan. I also have two access points connected via CAT6. A Netgear R6400 in the basement at the back of the house and a TP-Link Archer C7 on the main floor at the front of the house. I have 750 Mbps internet service from my ISP. I don't have many wifi 6 devices, just two Galaxy S20 phones.
A lot of times our phones, tablets, or laptops will stay connected to the R7000P, even if we are at the front or back of the house. Using a wifi analyzer app it seems this is because the R7000P signal is still reasonable in those areas (pretty close to the strength of the 6400 or C7) such that even turning Wi-Fi off and then on again it still connects back to the 7000P. However, the transfer rate is always down around 200-300 Mbps (wifi analyzer shows the connection as 500-650 Mbps). The kids are doing remote video calls for school and we’re doing video calls for work and some 4K streaming so I’m looking to upgrade to increase the throughput.
Given this behaviour I’m thinking it might be better to get a better single router and get rid of the access points? I was looking at a few Asus models that are on sale for similar price: RT-AC86U ($200), RT-AX82U ($250), RT-AX92U ($250). Which of these would be better in my situation?
Also, if I used AIMesh with wired back haul would it transfer the clients better so they can obtain higher throughput?
Thanks very much for your help and advice. It’s greatly appreciated!
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