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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-
thanks - really appreciate the advice :-)
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just want to say thanks again. i ordered a refurbed set of 3x M5s off ebay for £117 yesterday afternoon (the smaller units and ability to wall mount was important for me). bizarrely they arrived at 7:30am this morning. took me <15mins to plug them in and set them up :--) been using all day and "office" computer which relied on the wifi extender hits 60mbps down vs 5-10mbps normally..... should have upgraded sooner!
now just to re-enter wifi passwords on every device :--)
swedeee
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