Hallo

 

 

During the corana period, with 4 people working from home in the same apartment we ran into problems with our Wifi, it was getting slow. And in some rooms the connection was very bad. We live in an apartment 160 m2 with a lot of concrete. I first tried a cheaper Mesh system but that did not work. Finally I purchased two M9 plus hubs, and that did the trick. The head in our small office and the satellite close to the bedrooms did the trick.

 

 

Enter 2024, our Internet provider no longer supports ADSL (did the trick for us), so we needed to upgrade to a fiber network. The new modem has changed location due to cable management and acces to the apartment. We could no longer place the head Deco in a central location and the link with the satellite became quite poor. So same problem again as 4 years ago. The fiber connection is fast at least 300 Mbps down and uploading speed. I tried skipping the Deco all together but that did not solve the problem. Great connection in the main room, but nothing in the bedrooms (where some of the home offices are located).

 

So I bought a third M9 plus, and I placed it back at the original location (as a salellite), in the hope that the satellite at the far end would get a better signal. First that did not work since the deco's arranged themselves in a star configuration. Then I learned that I can force the connections between Deco's. That gave me the shedule as below.

 

 

 

 

 

"Woonkamer" is the main deco and is actually located at the entry of the apartment, I had to place it in a vertical position and it is placed close to a wall, its a bit boxed in but I can't improve that

 

 

"Kantoor" is the old location of the main hub. Properly placed horizontally with could 360 acces.

 

"Gang" is the satellite further away, with many doors and walls in between.

 

 

 

The results are very mediocre to say the least. The speed I get via the Mesh on my imac on a central location is 55 Mbps down and 22 Mbps  up. A very modest result given the original signal, its far worst in the other area's of the apartment. Worst then before with the 2 Deco set-up. Also What I noticed while we are closed to the satellite Kantoor, it still connects to woonkamer. I actually have no connections to woonkamer. ON gang we have connections but as I said not very good.

 

 

So my questions are 

 

1 One why is my Deco wifi amlost 10 times lower then the original signal

2 Any advice on the set-up to improve the wifi in the whole appartment?

 

BR

 

Samuel