Here we have an installation in Skelmersdale to help a customer who had run out of ideas with his network at home.
The current setup was a Sky router in the hall way with a cable running into a 12 way Ethernet switch and Ethernet cables running through the house and under the carpets etc. In the master bedroom to ethernets ran under the carpet and another 2 to other rooms one which had a repeater plugged in.
Downstairs set up was 2 Ethernet cables running under the carpet and laminate floor to the main Tv in the lounge so it could be hardwired.
The customer had run away with it all and was fed up with the situation and contacted us to resolve the mess even behind the lounge TV was a dead spot with no Wi-Fi.
The problem with this type of situation is that is easy to get carried away buying all these different types of Wi-Fi repeaters etc and internet over the mains etc. Each device will have its own SSID and password and when moving around connections get lost.
The true answer is to get rid of it all and install a mesh system with one password and one network, the downside with mesh networks is again they rely on Wi-Fi repeating and using a channel for this process, in this case the Wi-Fi wouldn’t reach 5 meters to behind the customers TV due the design of the walls.
Most clever Mesh systems such as in this case the TP Link Deco S7 has the facility to backhaul so each node is connected over Cat6 cable to eliminate the dead zones.
The installation was simplified to 3 Deco units with one being the master node wired into the Sky router from there into a 5 way Ethernet switch and 2 short ethernets into the RJ45 double socket. From the socket we hard wired 2 cat 6 cables around the outside of the property and one into the bedroom and one to the lounge and terminated with another RJ45 socket to make a more permanent installation. The 2 remaining Deco nodes were fitted and plugged into the sockets to create a Backhauled Mesh Network.
The result was three cat 6 connected nodes with no dead zones and one very capable Wi-Fi network with one username and password so no dropouts. Also each node can take up to another 2 Ethernet devices like his playstion 5 and TV so all hard wired over CAT 6 so no latency issues.
The router on the window ledge was how the customer wanted it and he was made up with it all.
One happy couple now and no tripping over the wires.
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