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Smart Home Issues
Looking for advice... I have my home set up with a number of smart home devices...well dozens and dozens actually. We just got upgraded to a fibre connection this last summer and I am now on the 1G ...
So I checked and the Smartsteering was actually 'off', and at the moment I checked it I was getting about 19Mbps on my 2.4G band on my 1G service...I am showing only 31 of about 40 devices connected, and it looks like it is mostly Smart Home devices that have dropped off. Tired of the kids complaining that they can't get consistent wifi for their devices (mostly on the 5G) and tired of resetting the gateway and Boosters, I have given up fighting with the TELUS system and have now purchased an Asus XT8 Mesh system with the intent to bridge through my gateway and run all the wifi from it. I do have some questions:
-I was intending to run my Optic TV 4K DVR box (and my one other hardwired device - an Xbox X) from the TELUS gateway (it is currently already set up this way using MoCa adapters and the house's coaxial infrastructure). Can I shut off the gateway's antennas and use the new router's wifi to link the 3 other wifi set top boxes to the Optik system somehow? I'd rather not have 2 wifi networks potentially conflicting and fighting for usable channels, and I don't want to purchase 3 more MoCa adapters if I don't have to (presuming the only other option would be to hardwire them to the gateway network).
-I have in my possession both the T3200M gateway (currently being used as it has the ability to separately ID and broadcast the both bands) and the newer TELUS Hub Gateway. I feel, but could be wrong, that the T3200M is no longer a particularly stable unit, and, although this opinion has manifested from my wifi issues, I am worried that it might also affect the connection to the internet that will be being bridged through it to the new router...not sure if that worry is even logical? In the configuration that I intend to set up, would one or other of the gateways that I have be better than the other for serving the intended purpose of providing the internet and connection for the Optic TV, and serving as a by-pass to the new router?
- Finally, as I have the TELUS Boost extenders, I was wondering if they might work with and if plugged into the Asus system to extend that systems Mesh wifi distribution even better?
