Hi,
Moved into a two storey apartment recently and have discovered that wi-fi is non-existent on the lower/second floor.
Apartment layout is a bit different than usual: entrance / living is on the top floor, bedrooms are downstairs. The NBN HFC box is located upstairs.
Current setup is a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X and an Archer D7 acting as a wi-fi access point. This old setup did the trick in my previous brick apartment, but I think the thicc concrete slab floor is killing the signal before it can reach downstairs.
In an ideal world, I'd like to run ethernet downstairs as backhaul for a mesh setup, but I'm concerned about how expensive it might be, especially if core holes are involved
Should I try praying to the network gods and see if I can fudge a passable Powerline setup? Is mesh worthwhile without an ethernet backhaul? I'm a bit lost, as I haven't had to think about network stuff in a long time, long before mesh and wi-fi 6 was ubiquitous
Thanks!
mesh.