Moved to new house, our mesh WiFi system is struggling to cover the house well enough, seems to be really struggling with the old walls, even having points a room apart is having a big impact on speed. I could pay £150 for 2 more points or I could use the free mesh system Virgin will send me to run a 2nd network to the parts of the house the other one won’t cover sufficiently.
Question is, to make it more convenient for people not having to have 2 networks on their devices, if I give these networks the same name and password, would it essentially run as a single network, and devices would find and connect to each one as if they were a single network.
Specifically wondering…..
– How would a device decide which network to connect to, would it just go with the strongest?
– If you were to connect to one of the networks then move to a part of the house where the other network was stronger, what would happen.