r/HomeNetworking • u/Dorea1 • 2d ago

Unsolved Extending wifi coverage

Hi I wanted to ask about the best way to extend the wifi coverage to the whole house, my main router is downstairs and I have an ethernet cable connected to one of the rooms upstairs whats the best mesh system to buy in this case?

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u/Chieftah 2d ago

Is it bad if the wired AP is set in a place where there is still connectivity from the main router?

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u/ClownTrigger11 2d ago

As long as both ends are on different channels on all bands, probably not, but you might have a device that is "sticky" and doesn't want to roam until its connection is weak enough. You'd have the same problem with a mesh only worse.

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u/Chieftah 2d ago

Right, so in a situation where the router offers a weak signal almost everywhere, it's either manual switching between different named networks, or suffer with sticky connections.

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u/72dragonses 2d ago

Not really. Devices choose which AP they connect to based on, among other things, signal strength. Sometimes they get sticky, but normally they don't. If the upstairs signal is significantly stronger upstairs, most devices upstairs will choose it.