I invested £300 in asking my tamed spark to install some CAT6 between several rooms. Then I spent another £50 putting CAT6 into the garage.
Best investment ever. They aren't even centrally terminated. There is no big expensive cabinet. It's star and spoke. Although as is common the most "central switch" is in the hallway, under the hallway table with the fibre router.
The beauty of this is all 8 Wifi bridges 4 APs with 2 networks each are on the same SSIDs LAN and GUEST and in the same mobility domain (where supported). So the phone roams without a drop. I can be on a WhatsApp call in the office on the blisteringly fast 5Ghz. Walk out into the hall and drop onto the hallway 2.4Ghz and then as I get to the bottom of the stairs pick up the downstairs 5Ghz. Seamless... even though a lot of my areas the 2.4Ghz is preferred. The 5Ghz works in select locations
Don't make a meal out of it scoping in a big cabinet, patch panel and central switch. Ask a tame spark how much to install some strategic "trunk" cables and leaf node switches are £10 each.
Mesh will just cause you headaches.
Best investment ever. They aren't even centrally terminated. There is no big expensive cabinet. It's star and spoke. Although as is common the most "central switch" is in the hallway, under the hallway table with the fibre router.
The beauty of this is all 8 Wifi bridges 4 APs with 2 networks each are on the same SSIDs LAN and GUEST and in the same mobility domain (where supported). So the phone roams without a drop. I can be on a WhatsApp call in the office on the blisteringly fast 5Ghz. Walk out into the hall and drop onto the hallway 2.4Ghz and then as I get to the bottom of the stairs pick up the downstairs 5Ghz. Seamless... even though a lot of my areas the 2.4Ghz is preferred. The 5Ghz works in select locations
Don't make a meal out of it scoping in a big cabinet, patch panel and central switch. Ask a tame spark how much to install some strategic "trunk" cables and leaf node switches are £10 each.
Mesh will just cause you headaches.