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Need help with WiFi Mesh system.

Posted on 6/22/25 at 9:46 pm
Posted by Ice Cream Sammich
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2010
10139 posts
Posted on 6/22/25 at 9:46 pm
I am moving my home office from one side of the house to the other. The room that is becoming the office has always had bad WiFi signal, but good enough for the Roku stick and playing on a phone. Will not be good enough for my main computer.

250Mbps next to router, 28Mbbps in new office (iPhone WiFi).

The new room is only 100' from the old office and where the modem/router are located. But, it does have a dozen walls between A and B.

I have AT&T Fiber with 1gb. I currently have the BGW210 modem/router combo.

Should I call AT&T and get the newer BGW320?
Should I add a router and set the BGW210 to bypass?
Should I add a mesh system like:
TP Link Amazon
Eero Amazon

Or, is there something else that I should/could do?

Thanks for the help!
Posted by Dallaswho
Texas
Member since Dec 2023
3332 posts
Posted on 6/22/25 at 10:53 pm to
The only important question when choosing a mesh kit for performance is, “Are you going to wire the backhaul?”
Yes? X55($100/set refurb) or that be5000 for wifi7.
No? Something with more 5ghz channels like the x90 or BE22000.
Go with eero only for parental controls. Way too pricy for what you get.
Decent wifi6 3x mesh should get you 600 mbps throughout the house assuming you don’t have like 5k sqft all on one level.

Posted by Ice Cream Sammich
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2010
10139 posts
Posted on 6/23/25 at 6:52 pm to
Good point that I did not think about including, but no, I will not be wiring the backhaul.

Looking into your suggestions now.

House is single story 2,500 sqft.
Posted by Dallaswho
Texas
Member since Dec 2023
3332 posts
Posted on 6/23/25 at 8:51 pm to
Wiring is always recommended and will allow you to better very expensive WiFi systems with relatively cheap ones.
5ghz will do most of the heavy lifting for wifi6 and wifi7.
If you use wired, 2x 5ghz streams per mesh is plenty. If you don’t use wires, and only have two streams per unit, you lose half bandwidth every step or worse if other devices are involved. Couple that with your main maybe not being central and having two steps to your office and you’re down to a couple hundred mbps at best.
The more expensive and larger systems have more 5ghz simultaneous streams and can handle wireless backhaul while serving clients or handle double jumps with very little loss but still won’t beat out a mid range system that is wired.
Also x95 appears to be a big upgrade from the x90 in speed stability. Amazon has a 2 pack x95 new on sale for $199. That’s a big upgrade if placed strategically,
This post was edited on 6/23/25 at 9:21 pm
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