Powerline adapters to MESH wifi?

[CageyH]

Yesterday, I removed my final powerline adapters from my house.

I was thinking of going for a Mesh WiFi system to boost coverage. Does anybody have experience of these systems?

What is a good system to buy at the budget end of the market? I am looking for a minimum of a router and two nodes.

[Andy831]

I have had a Tenda Nova MW6 system in my rather spread out bungalow for about 3 years.

I found them very easy to set up and have worked faultlessly since they were installed.

They have provided internet access over the whole of my home, but the nodes can be a bit fussy with regard to
location, but once I found a location for the central node where it could talk to the base unit and to the other node point
then it has worked seamlessly.

[CageyH]

Thanks for the feedback.

[Andy831]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254788158077?ul_noapp=true

This is the system I use.

[Filterlab]

I use the Google Mesh system (four points) which I've also installed in several clients' houses. Excellent all round and the accompanying app is great. Range and speed is excellent.

I've also set up a TP-Link Deco system using six mesh points. Very, very good with superb signal strength - in fact slightly stronger than the Google Mesh. The app isn't so good though.

[Edward]

Does port forwarding (such as for plex, VPN etc) able to navigate over a mesh network?

We are hopefully moving soon, however the new house does not have ethernet installed so instead of installing ethernet am looking at using mesh as an alternative.

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[Filterlab]

Yep. You should see no change at all, just one large network with one SSID and password.

Your ISP’s router will do the normal routing through the mesh as usual.

[Edward]

Yep. You should see no change at all, just one large network with one SSID and password.

Your ISP’s router will do the normal routing through the mesh as usual.

Cool. Thanks Rob. Let me dig into the TP-Link Deco you mentioned. Not only for port forwarding use I need it for hifi (server to clients) so aiming for high throughput, low (sub 10ms) latency and minimal jitter.

[Filterlab]

Latency should be negligible. Jitter is outside line more than internal network so shouldn’t be detrimental to the signal.

[Edward]

Latency should be negligible. Jitter is outside line more than internal network so shouldn’t be detrimental to the signal.

Cool. In that case I'll most likely just purchase one of the Deco range, give it a try and if does not live up to expectations ask you for my money back. (just joking. :lol:)

The other tech I was looking at is multimedia over coax (MOCA) as the new house has loads of in-wall coax cabling in various rooms which is now mostly redundant. But it seems this type of tech is not so popular in the UK (as it is in USA).

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[Filterlab]

:lol:

You shouldn’t have any problems with the Deco (although I’ve not specifically tested that set up for media streaming), but I’ve done plenty of mesh set ups of all types and never had a moment’s problem with any of them. They’re very good these days - networking equipment has come on leaps and bounds on the last three years.

Take the time to read through the manual though as distance, and height of the routers can have influence on the quality of signal.

[Andy831]

:lol:


Take the time to read through the manual though as distance, and height of the routers can have influence on the quality of signal.

Yeah I found that, I tried to put the intermediate station in the loft and it could not connect with the other stations, but 1.3m lower directly under the loft position on the kitchen window sill and they all talk to each other nicely.