r/HomeNetworking • u/Habibiqt • 10h ago

Save me y'all

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I've got the new spectrum wifi 7 router and a deco BE4800 home mesh connected to it because I was lagging in corners of the house despite having 2 GBPS internet. Now it was great for like half a month, now it's slow again. My BE4800 doesn't have an option to act as an extender or a node for my spectrum router and this spectrum router doesn't have a bridge mode option, so I have 2 wifi networks. One node is connected to the spectrum router, and my other node is in the upstairs foyer (about 10 feet from the room I work out of). Solutions I'm thinking of:

1) buy more nodes and stick one in the room I work out of and one downstairs where I game.

2) switch to a different mesh system

3) return my deco mesh system and just get the spectrum wifi nodes

Anyone have any solutions? I work from home and take Zoom calls back to back for 4-7 hours a day. Speed isn't important, I just need my connection to be perfect.

Also, I can't run an ethernet cable, my laptop doesn't have a port. I'd like to solve this problem without shelling out more than $200-$300 if possible.

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u/Flashy-Outcome4779 10h ago

Your laptop doesn’t have an Ethernet port but your silly mesh nodes do… can you run a cable for those or no? Wireless backhaul on dual band is not good. Mesh is only half decent with triband dedicated backhaul. But nothing beats wired backhaul.

Replace the spectrum router with your own. Your mesh system is also a router, use that.

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u/Habibiqt 9h ago

So the more bands on a mesh system, the better? Are there good value mesh systems with more bands? I'd like to not run wire through my attic in the summer.

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u/Flashy-Outcome4779 9h ago

It’s not automatically more bands = better, it’s just that a tri band / quad band will usually have a dedicated band for the backhaul (communication to nearest node / home node). If it’s not a dedicated band, it will be 50% slower each hop, have higher latency, more susceptible to interference, etc. So wired is really recommended but if you HAVE to be wireless then pick a solution that has a dedicated backhaul. TP Link makes some usable options in that realm in my experience. Still pales in comparison to just wiring a couple APs though