I recently moved and used the last generation Airport Extreme as my only Wifi device and it worked incredibly well in a 3 story townhouse. The new house I'm in is considerably wider than my previous home, and the router is placed all the way in the right side of the house (not by choice) as opposed to the center in my old house.
The problem I'm having is on the left side of the house, and the basement (a ranch house with a basement). I plugged in my airport extreme, get my usual speed (typically 200 MBps download). Once I start entering the basement, the wifi signal drops off a cliff. There's an average of 1/2 bars of signal, but speeds are HORRIBLE. Averaging anywhere from 6-12 MBps. I figured id keep the setup as simple as possible and purchased a used airport express to extend the wifi signal. The signal itself became more stable, but now the extender averages 6-20 MBps if I'm lucky. My goal is to get roughly 100 MBps throughout the house. I'm the only one who lives here so I don't need a crazy number.
I can't / don't want to run a hardwire throughout the house, as my experience with IT in this area has been horrible and they always try and take shortcuts, so it worries me that they'll do some excessive damage. I'm looking at the standard eero mesh router system. So my question is does anyone have this system? And if so, would it be connected the way I would have it? Which would be one eero hardwired to the modem, then place the other two throughout the house (not hardwired). As I mentioned, I'm more concerned about the speed being consistent 100+ throughout the house. I only pay for 200 MBps, so I'm ruling out the eero pro system despite its excellent reviews.
Any insight would be appreciated! Just want to see if an eero mesh system would essentially leave me in the same situation I'm in now, or improve my system speed / coverage overall. Thanks!
The problem I'm having is on the left side of the house, and the basement (a ranch house with a basement). I plugged in my airport extreme, get my usual speed (typically 200 MBps download). Once I start entering the basement, the wifi signal drops off a cliff. There's an average of 1/2 bars of signal, but speeds are HORRIBLE. Averaging anywhere from 6-12 MBps. I figured id keep the setup as simple as possible and purchased a used airport express to extend the wifi signal. The signal itself became more stable, but now the extender averages 6-20 MBps if I'm lucky. My goal is to get roughly 100 MBps throughout the house. I'm the only one who lives here so I don't need a crazy number.
I can't / don't want to run a hardwire throughout the house, as my experience with IT in this area has been horrible and they always try and take shortcuts, so it worries me that they'll do some excessive damage. I'm looking at the standard eero mesh router system. So my question is does anyone have this system? And if so, would it be connected the way I would have it? Which would be one eero hardwired to the modem, then place the other two throughout the house (not hardwired). As I mentioned, I'm more concerned about the speed being consistent 100+ throughout the house. I only pay for 200 MBps, so I'm ruling out the eero pro system despite its excellent reviews.
Any insight would be appreciated! Just want to see if an eero mesh system would essentially leave me in the same situation I'm in now, or improve my system speed / coverage overall. Thanks!
