Currently in a 2 bedroom brick apartment with a wifi router and an ethernet connected wavlink repeater in the study that creates a new wifi network.
When this setup works, it works well, but it frequently drops out and laptops/phones can't connect to either network which requires a hard reboot of everything and a very frustrating 5minutes of time. It doesn't work when we need to use the study for important work calls, so I need a better solution.
Previously people have mentioned a mesh network. I've been looking at deco s7 .
As mentioned, I have an ethernet cable going from the router through the walls to the study on the far side of the apartment.
I did think I could use one of these deco hubs in ethernet backhaul mode and have it transmit a wifi network there, thus negating the daisy chaining of hubs and getting the benefits of the mesh network, but I'm unable to find out if doing this is possible.
Can anyone vouch for this, or give some advice as to which setup would be good?
I have a 3 pack Deco X68 and it works as you described. I have one downstairs in my network cabinet as a router, one connected upstairs via ethernet backhaul, and one in the detached garage connected to the router via wifi backhaul.
Devices connect to whichever access point has the best signal and it all looks very seamless on the device side. I have taken work calls on the laptop while transitioning between an upstairs office to the garage without any drops.