Adding AV 2000 powerline to a Deco m9+ mesh to get past some thick walls
I have a fairly spread out house with some thick walls that mess up the wifi.
I have full fibre at 500Mbps.
I have 5 Deco m9+ mesh units and have been running them for about a year. Firmware 1.5.6 build 20211018
The Deco units are in router mode with the first one connected directly to the fibre modem
I usually get over 120Mbps in most of the house over wifi but at the extreme end in my integral garage workshop the signal can drop to under 10Mbps on a bad day. It's very up and down.
I have a m9+ mesh access unit in the (most remote from the modem) living room which gets around 120. I have a mesh unit in the garage just the other side of the living room wall (which is on the far side of the house from the modem) but this gets a very flaky signal as noted. I have tried all sorts of ways of moving the Deco units around but the last wall between the living room and the garage is a killer and installing ethernet is not an easy option
So I have bought 2 of the AV2000 powerline units. I would like to bridge the wall blocking the wifi by connecting one to one of the mesh units and one to the mesh in the garage where there a number of smart devices. Hoping this will then pass most of the 120Mbps through to the mesh unit
I use a Mac in the house and a windows 10 laptop in the workshop which I use for streaming out on my woodturning YT channel.
But I cannot get the powerline units to connect to the internet.
They see each other in the tpLC app and suggest around 100Mbps connection. But I cannot get an internet service. Using the Mac I have had to manually assign an IP address within the IP range of the Deco system mesh which has allowed the ethernet connection to operate according to tpLC app. But no internet via the powerline.
I am thinking there is some sort of clash with the first powerline unit not playing nice with the Deco? But my network knowledge and how to fiddle with settings in Windows has run right out of puff
Has anyone done this or know of a guide from someone who has please?