Mesh System Recommendations

[jay81uk]

Hi, I have BT as my provider and live in a small, one levelled property. It's an old house and the walls are solid. The hub itself is situated in the back room as that's where the phone point is.

WiFi struggles the other side of the house and surprisingly the room next to the back room. I bought a WiFi disc and have placed it in the centre of the property which has helped at the front of the house but still not great and not completely at the back. I was going to buy another disc but I'm skeptical if it'll blanket the whole house as the disc I have now hasn't made a huge difference.

I'm looking at WiFi mesh systems and have no idea what to go for. I only have 70mb broadband as it's part fibre but want something future proof for when full fibre is available.

Are there any recommendations for a system which is powerful enough to get through solid walls and provide full WiFi everywhere? There's so many different brands, specifically TP Link, and it's hard to know what to go for and not be overkill with something I don't need.

I would need at least one ethernet port for a hive system.

Thanks

[Crimliar]

Almost every mesh system available in the UK is limited by the same specifications, So in terms of pure use, you’ll not see too significant a difference in their W-Fi penetration. Just adding more and more nodes doesn’t really work either, because you end up saturating the band, and once again throughput can fall off rather than improve.
There are mesh units that use power-line (ie through the 240V ring main) and in modern houses with goo electrics I’ve seen sets from both TP-Link and Devolo work fantastically. I’ve also seen them fail miserably in a granite built house with electrics that were as old as I am!

*I have a mesh node, to help get W-Fi to my heating controllers that live in a fireproof hole!