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Hey everyone, I have had an idea brewing for a bit now on how to fix the Wi-Fi upstairs. Long story short, we have a pretty big house that's been finished already. The previous owners only wired ...
I ended up just replacing the T3200M entirely with the R7000 instead. Wi-Fi speeds upstairs are improved in the dead-spots before, but still could be alot better. I'll probably end up using the mesh network like you mentioned. Either that or do a couple cable drops in the house to improve the connection upstairs.
Either way thanks to everyone for your guys input, it definitely helped push me in the right direction!
Cheers.
I'll give that setup a shot. From my understanding, wouldn't this make two separate networks in the house since I'm connecting to WAN on both devices?
If I wanted to mesh the Wi-Fi networks by setting the same SSIDs and passwords would this cause a conflict or no? I just don't want everyone upstairs to have to log off and jump into a different network when they are in the basement for example.
You are correct, that would give you separate networks which I'm guessing you don't want.
If your goal is to increase WiFi coverage then go with what Nighthawk recommended in a previous post and configure the R700 for Access Point mode. That will give you 1 network with 2 separate SSID's.
ONT Port 1 -- WAN of T3200M --- LAN4 connected to WAN on R7000
A better alternative is to use the TELUS Boost WiFi instead of the R7000 in the above configuration which will give you a mesh network with 1 SSID.
https://www.telus.com/en/ab/mobility/accessories/product/telus-boost-wi-fi-starter-pack
