Mesh systems

[Spiff]

Ok weekend warriors! What mesh systems do we like for household coverage? Got a long house and had an older Orbi system. That got fries by lightning. I have a newer Orbi and I cannot keep a consistent signal with it. Computers and phones keep getting dropped from it. Takes about 2-3 min to reconnect. The other night, the Orbi system was completely out! I reset it and could not get it up and running. I went to bed. The next day it was working, somewhat, again. I think I’m done. I have no wish to hang on the line for several hours troubleshooting with someone in Sri Lanka.

I picked this system because it got good ratings for punching through older plaster walls, which I have. Before y’all start in on that, my previous Orbi system was solid and did well with the walls, only 2 real dead spots.

So what are y’all using for a mesh system these days? 3700 square feet, long house. All filled up with adults and kids, 40-50 devices hooked up to wifi.

Thanks!

[Zoidberg]

I was coming to recommend Orbi, so I guess I'm out of the ball game. Have had wonderful luck with our system.

[rich in distress]

Orbi!

Firmware Update FTW!

[space-time]

My set of 4 AmplifyHD seems to work OK. In fact only 3 are mesh (on Verizon), 1 is hand-alone on Comcast. I plan to set up a router with 2 WAN to switch back and forth between the 2 ISP providers and then put all 4 units on the same Mesh network.

[sekker]

Our 3-component original google mesh system has been quite good and reliable. Not superfast, but no real deadzones on our three levels.

Easy to manage, too.

But we use it alongside a wired network backbone, including a MOCA network that converts coax to ethernet. I think wired is still the best way to go for work-related and high bandwidth uses, taking the heavy lifting off our google mesh network (which is then mostly only handling mobile devices).

[Spiff]

Thanks, Rich. I did do the firmware update a couple weeks back, hoping that would fix things. Not really.

Maybe I do need to hang on the line for 2 hours to make this dag-gone thing work.

[Sarcany]

I'm concerned that you have something else going on like bad power in the house after the lightning strike. Orbis are pretty set-and-forget.

Are you confident that your wiring/outlets/switches/house-ground are all okay?

...My mom's house is a WiFi nightmare of tile and metallic coverings, but she's nevertheless got great WiFi coverage throughout by virtue of a TP-Link P9 Deco hybrid Mesh/Powerline system.

If the house has fairly up-to-date wiring, this is do-able. If the wiring is old or bad then powerline adapters won't work well.

[btfc]

Verify that the issue is not connected to your internet provider.

Use a wireless sniffer to optimize placement of the Orbi devices.

[NewtonMP2100]

....stilling using cans and string.......

[raz]

FWIW, my Eero has been flawless since day one and trivial to set up.