I recently moved into a long and somewhat narrow apartment (top floor of a dupex) and reside in a room that may as well be the back yard. We pay for ATT Fiber (up to 1000 Mbps), and the router/modem combo lives against the wall closest to the street, which is about 75 feet away from my room.
When I first moved in, the internet was so horrible in my room that I would get disconnected regularly and spent only about half the day working and the other half being irritated at the "trying to reconnect..." message from my browser. A speed test revealed that I was sitting at a 3 mbps download speed, whereas the living room would reach 300+ mbps download speeds.
Thinking a mesh network would solve my problems, I bought a 3-pack of the deco M5 and set them up across the apartment (one at the modem, one in my room, one in between). My wi-fi no longer drops and I have reached a whopping 5 mbps download speed in my room. To be fair, I have not yet attempted to turn off the wifi component of my router/modem combo, so I imagine I could slightly bump up my performance that way. Still, I'm pretty unimpressed with the speeds and I'm still dropping video calls which can be irritating and best.
I have been thinking about running an ethernet cable from my router to my room, but I wonder if I turn my router/modem combo into a bridge setting (or whatever?) will still be able to use the ethernet ports on the back to connect devices? How worth it is it to run two ethernet cords to also hardwire the bedroom deco m5 to the router? Is it worth getting a switch, or hub as if I know the difference, to run ethernet cables to the bedrooms of my roommates also?
Before I blindly drop money and time into hardwiring my entire apartment, why doesn't the mesh system work better? The devices are only about 40 ft apart, but the difference between 5 and 300 mbps between my room and the living room seems extreme. I don't know what the units are, but I used a wifi analyzer app and pre-mesh my network strength was at -80, and now it's at -40.
Thank you for reading, and for helping me make a decision about how to waste my weekend fixing this issue.
I thought it might have to do with Ben, honestly. If I were production and I saw someone struggling with panic attacks in the middle of the night regularly enough that he has brain fog so bad he can't remember the name of the person he's supposed to vote for, I would not push that person's limits by putting them in ANOTHER new place with rougher conditions.
Finally they're not moving to another island at the final 5
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