[Rbrown]

Been having some problems with my Virgin Hub. Got a new one fitted yesterday. I have been using TP Link powerline extenders. But speed is getting slower.

On a Volt package. So technician advised I should try either Virgin WiFi boosters. But she said mesh would be better - she recommended TP Link Deco S4.

I have a few thick brick walls to get through. Hence why the powerline adapters had worked ok so far (albeit speed is only 20mbps.

Just wondering what the current view is on mesh systems? Was wondering if they get through thick walls?

As I’m on Virgin Volt package (250mbps), I am eligible for 3 boosters free.

Any views / advice appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[ade555]

Bit of a difference solution, most people will be placing routers in wrong location in house, when we moved in to our new house 2 years ago, 3 bed semi had to place router in front of living room, been old house with concrete walls and much larger then our last one created a problem where upstairs back rooms had constant WiFi issues. Run cat 6 cable upstairs and placed router in middle on landing, problem solved, solid WiFi in whole house. Before that I was looking in to mesh ect. and best solution would be access points by UBIQUITI NETWORKS. Nearly 2 years running router upstairs and not a single problem so maybe worth a try in your case, even if you have dangling cable for a week to test it. With virgin you will have modem/router build in one most likely so you have two options, extend that cable that comes in to your house or put that virgin hub in modem mode only and have another router connected to that.

[MY340i]

had headache with our TP link deco's and sky multiroom, they just kept causing issues.

[danb1979]

I use the Deco Mesh system for our VM hub - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deco-M5-Cov...c-d11b6e3d217f

Its faultless and works superbly; whole house now has superb coverage inc the wife's office up stairs; the furthest point form the VM hub

VMs own hubs have great coverage in the local vicinity; after that it gets crap unfortunately

Took 10mins to sort; knock VM hub into modem only and set up the mesh; all done

[E60525d]

Originally Posted by Rbrown

Been having some problems with my Virgin Hub. Got a new one fitted yesterday. I have been using TP Link powerline extenders. But speed is getting slower.

On a Volt package. So technician advised I should try either Virgin WiFi boosters. But she said mesh would be better - she recommended TP Link Deco S4.

I have a few thick brick walls to get through. Hence why the powerline adapters had worked ok so far (albeit speed is only 20mbps.

Just wondering what the current view is on mesh systems? Was wondering if they get through thick walls?

As I’m on Virgin Volt package (250mbps), I am eligible for 3 boosters free.

Any views / advice appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

If your eligible for free VM boosters, a bit of a no brainer to try these first.

I have been running a mesh system for a couple of years and has worked brilliantly.

[Wolverine]

I’ve just added a mesh system as we’ve finally got FTTP at 900 mbps up and down. Due to where the fibre has been brought into the house, we had to place the router in the front of the property, by a window. So we ended up with range issues upstairs and into the loft room.

I just bought 2x of the Linksys Atlas Pro routers that my ISP supplied and added them as extra nodes and it’s been brilliant. Really easy to set up and we now have a minimum 500 mbps on WiFi in the areas we had no signal before. Only paid £40 per additional router/node.

Had considered boosters before but the above was the simplest at minimal cost and effort. If you can get boosters FoC have a go, but my initial experience with a mesh system has been great.

[un1eash]

Originally Posted by MY340i

had headache with our TP link deco's and sky multiroom, they just kept causing issues.

Were you connecting your sky mini boxes to the mesh or the sky mesh?

[un1eash]

I run a Mercusys mesh made by tp link, I have 3 in the house and one in the detached garage. Get great coverage all over the house now. Main router has WiFi turned off but I still use it wired to my PS5 for gaming QOS.

[Nibbles]

I’ve got 3 deco’s in my house. Virgin in modem mode and it works flawlessly. Even get a decent signal in my garage which is out the back of the house. Decent parental controls as well if that’s of any use.

[Hartside]

3 Deco M5’s here and again they work really well, even have a good signal in the back garden. Had them now for about 3 years and before that we had terrible WiFi in the house

[AyrshireColin]

It's not Virgin, it's Sky. But pulled out my TP-Link Deco M5 mesh system 2 weeks ago to just go with Sky equipment and it is all more stable now. The mesh set-up worked well but as above Sky Q mini boxes can only operate on their own mesh so was essentially running with a 'Sky' and 'home' network...kids were getting older and connecting on their own, this confused them no end!

I did start running ethernet cables and using ethernet switches, so have hardwired quite a lot now, but it's just all working better and is more stable.

150 year old build, so solid walls. Have the main Sky Q box (hardwired), x4 Sky Q mini-box (x2 are hardwired) and x2 Sky wireless boosters.

[TurboWeasel]

Anyone with mesh systems getting any handover dropouts when roaming around the property?

I'm considering a few Eero satellites to run off the Eero Pro 6E router, which was supplied with our Giganet service, but I keep reading mesh isn't as amazing as the hype suggests.

[ade555]

Mesh only extended the network at cost of latency and other unwanted hiccups. It works in form of I have wifi in that room but that's where it ends for me with mesh. Is basically multiple access point with easy connection and poor management so when you have heavy device usage in house and poorly managed as you have no control over it that's when people start to see problems with mesh.


Is easy to setup for end user so I guess why it exists.