My husband went up into our attic and dropped the cables down the walls from the attic then drilled a small hole on each wall. He just found the cable box cables in the attic and followed those running cat6 wires to each room.
In our old house he did the same thing just went under the house to do it and came up through the floor. The floor option under the house may work great for you if you dont have an assessable attic
Iâd prob drill a hole into a wire or gas line or pipe
You can use MOCA adapters or powerline adapters depending on your homeâs electrical wiring. You can drop a single repeater in the house or use an old router as a bridge. Or you can just buy a mesh network like you did. There are many ways to âexpandâ network coverage and everyone has different needs which makes it confusing to so many people.
Convenient and cost saving absolutely but often their routers have mediocre performance so you may not necessarily be getting the performance you pay for, their firmware rarely gets updated possibly leaving your network exposed, and if the router or modem have an issue you are down both.
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Ah, I mean thatâs defo possible. I just like convenience and am not super well versed in that stuff apart from âhey it worksâ, and âoh no, my internet is downâ. I did do a speed test once I changed it and it seemed fine to me.
What do you reccomend?
Every single modem/router combo Iâve ever used has been problematic. My mom still uses one in her house and itâs always broken.
first step pick a doscis 3.1 modem from the list for your isp
then decide if you want to hard wire or go single wifi router or get a mesh system
mesh is better for coverage, less good for latency. Anecdotal evidence for me is it eliminated the living room deadspot a normal Asus RT-AC68U had in our 2 story 1600sf home. Latency seems about the same.
Weâre using comcast and a motorola MB8600.
I mean, if you are happy with it and it works than I recommend you keep it.
Typically when I hear people say âmy wi-fi sucksâ what they really mean is their wi-fi has bad coverage and/or throughput. Then it becomes a of what are your needs and conditions? You can go from running Ethernet ports into every room with multiple professional APs to just plugging a repeater into the wall so your kid can stream their PBS app on a tablet or having wi-fi in the garage so you can watch youtube how to videos on your phone.