Similar to Zippy - my office is what would normally be the smallest bedroom, at the top front corner of the house and that's where my Virgin feed comes in. I used to run extenders but they weren't that reliable and things didn't switch so well between them as you moved around.
I now have a Cat5 cable from the router in my office which goes into the loft and down into the diagonally opposite downstairs room at the back, which is where the TP Link Deco mesh (as Richard has) main unit is. The house isn't huge but I wanted good coverage including the garden so I bought a triple pack of mesh, which means we have good WiFi around the whole house, and devices switch seamlessly from one mesh until to another.
I did turn off the WiFi on the Virgin router when I was having some sort of issue and have never turned it on again. That issue may, however, have been a bit niche and to do with the massive amount of WiFi automation devices I have around. (Also turned off DHCP on the VM router as the mesh seems to do it better.)
So as said above, extenders may do the trick but the mesh is far better...
This i the one I have, I disregarded the fact that the two unit system would probably on paper be enough for me as I didn't want to find out the hard way that it wasn't.
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Last edited by: smokie on Tue 25 Feb 25 at 12:58
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