Can I extend my home Deco M9 Mesh network via a switched backbone to a garden room
I have had excellent service from my dual M9 Plus Mesh network in my home
I am currently having a garden room built at the end of the garden and have had an ethernet cable backbone installed between the house and garden room
The intention is to have an unmanaged switch at each end and the main Deco connected to the router in the house
Can I simply plug the second unit into the garden room switch to have a single mesh network for both buildings
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Yes, you can do that, but check this document for helpful info: General questions about Ethernet Backhaul feature on your Deco
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At my house, I have Deco mesh with four units: two M9 Plus and two M5. Three out of four Deco units are connected with Ethernet cables to my home network.
After reading that document I shared, do you still have questions? If you do, I can answer them, based on my experience in using similar Deco hardware, and with similar to your setup.
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Also, few more thoughts on that subject.
1. How many Ethernet wired devices do you plan to have in the garden room? Because, if none or just one: you don't need networking switch there. You can connect Deco in garden room directly to Ethernet cable, and you will still have one Ethernet port, second port in Deco M9 Plus, to connect another wired device to it.
2. If you already have networking switch in your garden room, and it happened to be not compatible with Deco, you may not need to replace it if you can wire Deco unit in the garden room the following way:
<--Ethernet cable from house-->Deco M9 Plus<--Ethernet cable-->Networking Switch
When you wire them in the above order, you can use any gigabit networking switch.
3. If you find after you moved Deco M9 Plus to garden room you don't have good WiFi coverage at your house with remaining single unit, I would suggest to bring M9 Plus back to the house and buy single Deco M5 for garden room.
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