I recently added a Netgear wifi 6 RB660 (certainly not the best at this time) to my house. It can function as a router for NAT and DHCP server and all that, but instead I configured it through its web interface to operate in AP mode and not router mode. So now I have coverage all over the house. The satellites communicate over a 5G backhaul to the main device in my office. Nothing fancy but it works.
My parents have same kind of house, with their Xfinity broadband in the 3rd floor TV room. I ran Cat6 across the back down to the 1st floor for back haul and an Orbi WiFi6 mesh router now gives great signal house-wide (yard too!)
I’ve used before netgear Orbi mesh WiFi 6 router with two satellites. Worked well. Expensive but I guess was worth. Still use it now in the apartment but with one satellite in the bedroom only just in case
You could get a 3 pack mesh network bundle like the Netgear Orbi system with a dedicated wireless back haul. You would plug the main unit in behind your ISP router and then place the satellite units around your living space. Just make sure that you place one of the satellite units mid way between your deadzone and the main unit so it can throw the signal the rest of the way for the last unit.
A tri-radio mesh AP has a dedicated “backhaul” radio, so client traffic and mesh traffic run on different channels and don’t have to take turns. On dual-radio systems, both client data and backhaul share the same channel—so when a client sends data, the AP has to receive it and then retransmit it on that same channel. Because Wi-Fi is half-duplex (only one device can talk at a time), that effectively cuts available airtime and throughput. The third radio avoids that bottleneck by separating those conversations.
Not quite dedicated. Eero has tri radio but it’s not solely dedicated to mesh backhaul. They have an algorithm that will switch backhaul between those 3 radios based on load. So there could be a scenario where clients and mesh backhaul are on the same shared radio or they could be separate (dynamically). If you get the tri radio version and trust the algorithm you should be ok. Orbi tri radio and quad radio products however spec dedicated backhaul radio.
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