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Mesh is awesome with wired backhaul (connecting them with ethernet back to the main one) and 'ok' depending your house over wireless backhaul.
If you want to solve it forever, get two or three WiFi 6 mesh pucks from TP-Link, Asus et al and wire them together. I ran external cat6 between my three.
It will completely and forever solve the issues you're having.
Soul
frankenbike
Mesh.
Our virgin router is currently plugged into a powerline thing - I want to say BT Homespot 1000 but may be inventing words.
Then I have another one at the other end of the house where I work and plug a desktop into the ethernet that comes out of it and connect a couple of laptops to it over wifi.
Unsurprisingly it's shit and slow. Added to flaky connections and underperforming speeds from Virgin (will be leaving asap), I need a better solution.
I'd like to be able to have very fast wifi wherever we are in the house - i.e. I can move a device around and not have to connect to a different network.
My understanding is that this is what 'mesh' is?
In the past I've looked at Google Nest because they have built in speakers. I like the idea of podcasts in different rooms (so no need for wild audio quality) and I don't want to have both our existing sonos as well as a new mesh hub that looks like the sonos both running at the same time in the same place. Have one thing with multiple purposes wins (until they break because they're overloading technology and not good at either purpose blah).
But then Google updated their Nest range and they no longer have speakers built in.
Does anyone have a set of the OG ones and care to comment if they're worth buying NOS e.g. from Toolstation? https://www.toolstation.com/google-nest-wifi-router-point/p46671?
Or should I just give up the dream of combining functions, in which case what are the best, smallest, least obtrusive options (am presuming they won't do well hidden in cupboards).