ron swanson
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I'm finally getting a fibre connections in a few weeks and am just looking for some information and advice from people who have been through the process.
I was looking at getting the modem installed behind the TV in the living room, the router currently is in my hallway and with a wireless extender I currently am able to get a good signal in my annex which doubles up as an office/games room.
If I can get it installed behind the TV I would probably be moving it from it about 20 feet away from it's current position but in doing this I use a wired connection on my sky box and hopefully help ease my connection issues with that. Sky actually installed an wired connection between the two boxes so I was going to unplug the mini from the main box and plug that into the router as well if that would help with the drop outs on the mini too.
My main concern with moving it from it's current position is the signal strength to the annex. Which was where I was considering a mesh system. If I placed a mesh disc where the current router is sat and then another in the annex am I correct in thinking that the mesh would work and broadcast the signal in my the same way my current setup does.
I would consider an ethernet box in the annex also as I put earlier sky connected the two boxes with a cable so I could use that from the modem to an ethernet box then connect my sky box and consoles with a wired connection but if I'm being totally honest the medusas head of cables in the annex is not something I particularly want to add to! That's if my thinking that sky installed a standard ethernet cable between the boxes is correct.
I'm trying to get a balance between signal and tidiness if that makes sense, I know wireless will always be slower than wired but I'm ok with that.
Just after some opinion and advice really.
Bit of a long post so thanks for reading.
I was looking at getting the modem installed behind the TV in the living room, the router currently is in my hallway and with a wireless extender I currently am able to get a good signal in my annex which doubles up as an office/games room.
If I can get it installed behind the TV I would probably be moving it from it about 20 feet away from it's current position but in doing this I use a wired connection on my sky box and hopefully help ease my connection issues with that. Sky actually installed an wired connection between the two boxes so I was going to unplug the mini from the main box and plug that into the router as well if that would help with the drop outs on the mini too.
My main concern with moving it from it's current position is the signal strength to the annex. Which was where I was considering a mesh system. If I placed a mesh disc where the current router is sat and then another in the annex am I correct in thinking that the mesh would work and broadcast the signal in my the same way my current setup does.
I would consider an ethernet box in the annex also as I put earlier sky connected the two boxes with a cable so I could use that from the modem to an ethernet box then connect my sky box and consoles with a wired connection but if I'm being totally honest the medusas head of cables in the annex is not something I particularly want to add to! That's if my thinking that sky installed a standard ethernet cable between the boxes is correct.
I'm trying to get a balance between signal and tidiness if that makes sense, I know wireless will always be slower than wired but I'm ok with that.
Just after some opinion and advice really.
Bit of a long post so thanks for reading.