talktalk mesh options.

[kshangaun]

About a year ago switched from broadband with talktalk to faster fibre 150 again from talktalk, came bundled with an eero 6 router, loved the interface but range was dreadful, worse than the broadband.

Talktalks solution was to ditch the eero, connect the fibre ONT to the old broadband router and send us a janky old WiFi extender. We have lived with it for now, but want to go back to the eero or similar, for the interface and parental controls, and have the following options

1. Get a second eero router and set up a mesh to hopefully increase range

2. Can get Tenda Nova mw6 3 pack for less than the cost of 1 eero

3. Can get TP link deco m5 3 pack for a little more thannthe eero.

4. Can get netgear orbi (rbk352) 2 pack if I push the boat out.

Current speed next to router is 125mb/s

Would option 2 and 3 work with the gear I have? What would you do

Based in UK.

Thanks.

[KeithFrench]

Be very careful with some of these third-party mesh systems as a number of the cheaper ones use a fixed WiFi channel. One of the ones you mentioned (I will not say which one) only uses channel 6 on the 2.4GHz band and only one channel in the 5GHz band (can't remember which one). Some are cheaper than the Eero for a good reason.

There is another mesh system that I think is far better, but you won't see it on Amazon or the like. Which TalkTalk-supplied router do you have? If it is either the Sagemcom FAST5364 or 5464, there is now available from TalkTalk something called the Sagemcom FAST266 WiFi Booster. It is a very new product & when connected to one of the Sagemcom routers that I mentioned, it forms a mesh network. The only drawback is that whilst the 266 is WiFi 6 compatible, anything that connects to the 5364/5464 gateway node, will only work up to WiFi 5 (802.11ac). All this of course is dependent on your devices supporting these WiFi standards as well. 

When I know what router you have I'll tell you the best way for you to get one, if you are interested.