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"Single wifi" house coverage?

I have a 1Gbps ISP at home.

Right now I have 2 wifi points, one from the ISP's modem, and one a very old Router that can only do 100Mbs.

 

Apart from the fact that I want something closer to 1Gbps Wifi, and maybe Wifi 6. I also want a "single wifi".

A single router cannot cover the entire house, since the walls are made of blocks/concrete.

 

The solution I have now requires me to manually switch the wifi I use, whenever I move to a region that has the corresponding router/wifi point.

 

How do I get coverage of the entire house, but with "seamless" wifi?

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The best way would be a mesh system or dedicated access points (unifi, mikrotik, etc) with a controller for seamless roaming.

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8 minutes ago, Sargon said:

I saw the mesh system, is basically one router and then "stations".

So the stations connect to the router via ethernet?

Depends, ethernet or via a dedicated wireless signal.

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9 hours ago, Sargon said:

I saw the mesh system, is basically one router and then "stations".

So the stations connect to the router via ethernet?

Ideally by ethernet, but if they have a dedicated wireless band just for the backhaul that can work well too.

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