OzarkEdge
Part of the Furniture
I am fixed with where wired connectivity is available - second floor, one end of the house. Neighbors have stronger wifi signal downstairs, and that's what I needed to improve.
I suspect that AI MESH between the two floors would suffer the same issues as a regular client device. True?
Also, does it improve WiFi signal in the secondary location or just turn wireless to wired?
Have you reviewed the AiMesh marketing hype to get a general idea?
Adding a second WiFi repeater/access point/AiMesh node downstairs will extend your WiFi coverage to that area. A repeater uses a wireless backhaul to the router upstairs. An AP requires a wired backhaul to the router upstairs. An AiMesh node uses either. A wired backhaul is more robust and unburdens your WiFi. To use a wireless backhaul, you must locate the second device within 5.0 GHz range of the router upstairs. An AiMesh wireless backhaul seems to have better throughput than a repeater wireless backhaul.
Adding the second device downstairs will increase your WiFi signal power there and may then negate your neighbor's signal. I think someone here said a 20 dBm differential would be enough... your signals being less negative than your neighbor's.
Given the router upstairs, what dBm power do you see for your WLANs downstairs where you want to locate the second device... and for your neighbor's WLANs?
The device downstairs will support wired/LAN and wireless/WLAN clients.
OE