Worminater
Gawd
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- Apr 12, 2004
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Hey. I have a fairly large (~3600sqr foot, 140 yr old, 3 story brick) house in a fairly WiFi saturated urban area, I have Gig Fiber coming into my basement into ethernet to the first and second floors, and a line run from the second to the third. Today, I have Fios crap-router in the second floor fed from basement, and then running to my office to hardwire my desktop. WiFi on the edges is spotty, but works.
I have a pretty stupid setup, excluding computers/phones, currently including 10 sonos speakers, 12 Nest devices, 6 Google Homes, 6 chromecasts, 20 Hue bulbs/lamps, and a number of Wemo switches. I have been seeing some hiccups in the back on Sonos, and my Nest Secure has been pinging me somewhat often about network drops (~every other day).
This leads me to think a proper network setup is necessary, probably Mesh? After searching a bit and reading the GUIDE,I'm leaning toward moving FiOS router to basement to keep FiOS TV happy, then having it feed to an AmpliFi HD on second floor w/ extenders on 1st and 3rd. I do have some concerns about the Mesh playing nice w/ all the IOT devices around the house as they're likely just to increase in number, but I think it should all work smoothly once I disable wifi on the FiOS router...
Opinions or other options are welcome.
I have a pretty stupid setup, excluding computers/phones, currently including 10 sonos speakers, 12 Nest devices, 6 Google Homes, 6 chromecasts, 20 Hue bulbs/lamps, and a number of Wemo switches. I have been seeing some hiccups in the back on Sonos, and my Nest Secure has been pinging me somewhat often about network drops (~every other day).
This leads me to think a proper network setup is necessary, probably Mesh? After searching a bit and reading the GUIDE,I'm leaning toward moving FiOS router to basement to keep FiOS TV happy, then having it feed to an AmpliFi HD on second floor w/ extenders on 1st and 3rd. I do have some concerns about the Mesh playing nice w/ all the IOT devices around the house as they're likely just to increase in number, but I think it should all work smoothly once I disable wifi on the FiOS router...
Opinions or other options are welcome.