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House getting Rewired Suggestions welcome & router suggestions

Irish Gunner · 2021-12-03 16:41:48

Ok getting the house rewired and asking Sparks to Hardwire the house for BB in each room Currently have the VN hub in modem mode and have TL link Archer c9 but want to upgrade this when all done Anything I should be requesting Sparks to do when rewiring , and any suggestions for new modem that will take in a lot of wifi…

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#32 25-01-2022 2:27pm
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Errr... Pretty much any decent sized office, will use ethernet to backhaul Wifi AP's !!
We are increasingly seeing the same in home setups. The future of wifi is to use increasingly high radio frequencies (e.g. 6GHz for Wifi 6E) which will offer more data throughput, but the downside is the signal doesn't travel as far and doesn't penetrate walls as well.
Eventually we will likely get to the point, where we almost need a wifi AP per room. Sure, you can backhaul that with lower frequencies, but you won't get as good performance as you would get using ethernet.
What I'm getting at, even if you only ever use wifi, having an ethernet port in every room is very useful to get the most out of that and I'd highly recommend it to anyone building a new home or renovating.

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