Heaps! Haha, I shouldn't have messed with things. I actually discovered today one of the mesh points wasn't working. Not sure why, but it was reported as disconnected when it was plugged in. Maybe the OS had crashed?

I also had another go at using an Ethernet backbone just now. Last time I tried it did not go well, but it's working great now! Of course, the nature of unstable WiFi is that it's great sometimes and terrible others so we will see if its new found solid connection will last.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fingers crossed!

I'm personally not a big fan of mesh systems, but there are situations that call for it. Luckily, our house is small enough that a centrally placed AP covers the majority of it.

[–] Dave 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A centrally placed AP would cover ours too, but the fibre box is behind the TV in one corner of the house, and my bedroom in the opposite corner. Watching Netflix in bed didn't really work.

Now that I've had a mesh system, I think putting the effort in to do a centrally located AP would have been a better choice.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The previous owner of our house had the fiber run at the furthest corner of the garage in the roof all the way to the other side so the ONT is in the kitchen/lounge/dining. Since there was already a fiber optic cable coming through our ceiling, I just said screw it and ran Ethernet back up from the ONT and into the garage, where I put my router/switch/NAS.

Since I already put holes in the ceiling, I just did a run so my AP could be mounted on the ceiling centrally. I covered the hole where all the cables go into the garage with a brush plate, so it’s not as ugly 😂

[–] Dave 2 points 11 months ago

Haha nice! Our wifi on the mesh network seems stable now that the ethernet backbone is back again. I'm nervous to say it though because it might jinx it 😟