I'll have to consider it. Buying three is nowhere near as affordable as the price we got the Eero at, but three is still cheaper than the regular price for the Eero.
If the powerline adapters failed, I'd try the mesh route. I pretty much gave up on powerline adapters at this point. Some would either cause electrical interference that got on my nerves while on phone calls or listening to music, or others would collapse under their own weight if more than two were being used at a time. And apparently, if you get the ones with multiple ethernet ports on them, they'll act as a powerline for things that need to be hardwired anyway. Just ran one to my desktop and it's getting the same speeds as the hardwired box in another room and faster speeds than my sister's computer on wifi.
But we have several instances in this thread where people had wall induced deadzones in small homes or apartments that had their issues alleviated by mesh.
I just had to reset my old router because trying to to disable this and turn the router into a switch essentially bricked it and killed internet for the things tethered to ethernet. I'm just going to leave it alone for now; nothing is using the Belkin for wifi and everything is working. Why poke the bear?
Grab a switch. And I just turned one of the mesh hubs into a powerline adapter for two devices and it seems to be working well enough. You have your cat6 for things that need it, and wifi that doesn't suck for all of your wireless stuff.
Do the Synology ones come in packs? I can only find individuals on sale.
I mean there's nothing stopping us from meshing the hell out of our 1br apartments (or sudios or whatever.)
And it's not like apartments and one story homes aren't prone to dead zones, either. Or maybe someone owns their own business or works at a small business with shitty wifi.
This, upgraded my home with UniFi gear a few months back and it's been fantastic + way more versatile in terms of configuration then anything I have had before.
Did your ISP tell you that? Because that definitely isn't true. Any off the shelf modem and router will supply you with internet when plugged in your home. If that weren't the case, then there wouldn't be a market for routers and modems and this thread wouldn't exist.
I've only read a bit so far, but I fail to understand how simply using your own modem wouldn't work for this one specific ISP, but all signs point to you putting it into modem mode and grabbing your own router to be a better course of action.
My dumbass didn't bother to test LAN speeds before setting it up, so I can't get a solid comparison. But they're roughly 320 megabits per second wired. Wifi is roughly 100-150 Mbps slower in the areas that weren't practically black holes before.
As stated above, I spaced on testing LAN since the goal was primarily to curb inconsistent connections due to shitty powerline adapters being shitty for wired devices and removing dead zones/poor reception areas with wifi. The ridiculous wifi speed boosts were a bonus.
Do you go into playstation exclusive game threads saying "imagine thinking everyone had a ps4"?
