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thanks - will that cover the whole place then? its only a 2 bed...
every room also has these phone line outlets too. wonder if i should try plugging another router in downstairs/if that would work....? annoyingly i think we binned the EE router last week so no cheap way of seeing if it would actually work
swedeee-
will that cover the whole place then? its only a 2 bed...
Probably. Maybe. Depends. Thick walls, long floor plans or loads of foil backed materials can be a hinderance. You can commission a survey or just buy an extra mesh node.
every room also has these phone line outlets too. wonder if i should try plugging another router in downstairs/if that would work....?
Phone wires are usually not enough pairs for gig and wired in parallel rather than a star. They are typically lower quality too, eg Cat3. I have run 100baseT over phone wiring and it worked well but requires a bit more effort.
jellybaby
Turn off the router WiFi. Buy a mesh WiFi thing (TP-Link Deco are popular round here but I haven't used them myself) and plug the first into your router with an Ethernet cable.