Mesh Wi-Fi, school me.

I’m on Asus zenwifi. It was a relative breeze switching from virgin to city fibre, just unplugged the virgin cable, plugged in the city fibre, changed a few settings and that was that. No reconfiguration of the client devices needed, or reconfiguration of the router (firewalls, parental controls etc) – that would have been a major ball ache.

Much better to have your own network setup not reliant on your isp, IMO.

I did end up having to move routers around in the house due to different entry points for virgin vs. city fibre, and I ethernet back hauled it while I was at it….that bit WAS painful. However the backhaul has made it much more stable/better (4 storey Victorian house, busy WiFi neighbourhood, so kind of understandable we had the odd wobble before the backhaul really)

Update. I got the TP Deco M4. They have been faultless. Easy to set up, good app, brilliant range and my teenagers have stop whinging about Wi-Fi so all is good.

I even managed to get my new broadband provider to credit me £125 to my account to pay for them, which I still can’t quite believe they agreed to!

Good choice 🙂

Thread resurrection / help needed.

I’ve got Tenda Mesh 3 type that advice on here helped set up; i renamed network and gave it a new password, have 3 boxes and it works, but I’m not overwhelmed by performance and the youth says streaming is patchy (ad as he’s laid up for 3 weeks in a post-op pit, this is an issue)

At the same time I have some Argos vouchers to use so was looking at the TP Link M4 3-pack, £110; or there’s an E4 for £20 less.

Questions:

Any preference, worth the £20 more (I don’t know it I want to go for £144, or up closer to £200)

And then for switch over, do i understand right?

1/ Log in to Tenda app and change password for the existing network

– do I also change network name, that doesn’t need to be secret does it?

2/ Disconnect it all

3/ Plug in a box from the new system to the (Virgin) router via the cable

4/ Log in using the details with new set up

5/ Change details to the same as old one (Network name and password)

6/ Plug in the other boxes and do the magic connection thing

7/ and then all the devices will see the new network but as it has same name and PW then they’ll just connect automatically?

Your approach sounds good to me.

I changed the network name – make it something fun like AlienMothership – and kept the old password.