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Mesh is your best bet but it’s hard to say how affective it will be without knowing the sort of distances you’re talking about.
Google WiFi (now nest WiFi?) is what i have and it reaches fine between ground and third floor, out into the garden and garage.
If you’re really struggling, WiFi 6 Mesh is now out but two base stations will set you back £700.
The other answer is, of course, Ethernet but i guess that’s out of the question?
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I've finally got round to upgrading my home internet connection, so rather than a rather wobbly 4Mbps I know have 67Mbps #notreallyaboastpost. This means it's time to deal with the next weak link in the chain, which is WiFi coverage throughout the house.
I'm running a Draytek 2860n router, which is tucked away upstairs in the southwestern corner of the house. The location isn't really negotiable as that's where the master socket is, and the internal phone wiring within the house is catastrophically awful.
Based on my limited research to date it looks like a WiFi mesh is probably the way to go rather than repeaters/extenders as what I'd really like is a good stable WiFi signal in the living room, which is on the ground floor in the northeastern corner of the house, so about as far away from the router as you can get. Despite the fact the house isn't that big and is a modern ticky-tacky wood-frame structure, the WiFi signals just don't seem to get through that far with any degree of strength.
So, any recommendations for some mesh hardware to extend the WiFi range, or is there an alternative which would be better and which I've overlooked.
tl;dr - WiFi mesh, yes/no; if yes, which? if no, what else?