I'm currently paying for two wifi systems to cover my house and garage. I would like to drop one and buy a wifi extender or mesh system. What do you guys recommend as the best system that would also be easy to install?

How far away is the garage? What speed is your internet? Does it share any wiring with the main house? If you have coax or power lines, there are adapters you can use to hardwire access points.

Powerline: https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Powerline-Pass-Through-TL-PA9020P-KIT/dp/B01H74VKZU/

Coax: https://www.amazon.com/Hitron-Ethernet-existing-Backbone-Streaming/dp/B08MQG6T61/

If it is a long distance, you may need something like this: https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/ubb

Wi-Fi extenders are terrible. That would be the last thing I would want.

Get a mesh. If it's a detached garage, depending on how fast you want, bury a line to it then have a mesh node wired in. I hear Orbi is the best. I've got EERO, but that's Amazon. I did EERO because Amazon does financing for Prime customers.

tfunk02 said:

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How far away is the garage? What speed is your internet? Does it share any wiring with the main house? If you have coax or power lines, there are adapters you can use to hardwire access points.

Powerline: https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Powerline-Pass-Through-TL-PA9020P-KIT/dp/B01H74VKZU/

Coax: https://www.amazon.com/Hitron-Ethernet-existing-Backbone-Streaming/dp/B08MQG6T61/

If it is a long distance, you may need something like this: https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/ubb

Wi-Fi extenders are terrible. That would be the last thing I would want.

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The garage is about 60 feet from the back of the house and it is detached. I have the fastest internet that Spectrum provides. All the wires to the garage are buried.

It shares power with the house then. I would get a powerline adapter to try out and get a mesh unit that is capable of a wired backbone. You will have one mesh unit by your modem that connects to it. It will then have another wire that goes out and into the powerline adapter. You will put the other powerline adapter out in the garage, and connect it to the other mesh unit out there. That would be your best option, as long as the powerline adapter works for your situation.

There are some really nice expensive mesh units from Orbi or Asus, but it seems most people do great with an easy to use Eero or Google Nest mesh system. If you want to go cheap, TP-Link has good options, but some don't like that it's a Chinese brand with some shady data history.

Thank you for your help.

Just bought the google mesh. Simple to install. Had same issues as you with poor coverage. Solved now.

Don't use wifi extender. No good. Bite the bullet and pay $300 for a mesh

I love my deco system. Range is easily 2-3 times better than my old eero system, but I haven't used the newest one (mostly because of just how much better deco was when I got it 2 years ago, for less money. My 2700 sq foot house can be covered by one node, and between the two nodes I have in the house (which turned out to be unnecessary for house use) covers to the very back of my 1000 sq foot workshop on the other side of my back yard. I just got another node to put in the workshop, so 3 nodes will cover my entire acre of property easily. My old eero 3 unit system barely covered my old 1600 sq ft flat, by comparison.

On TexAgs with a flat? Has to be a bot...

tfunk02 said:

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On TexAgs with a flat? Has to be a bot...

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You're right. I should've said $2 million luxury penthouse. I was trying to be humble.

I didn't look at your post history, but you were a rookie pushing a product using words that Texans don't normally use. Bots normally do that and then when they get out of rookie status, edit the post and put links.

My bad!

I have an Asus mesh and I've been very happy with it. Much, much better than previous router plus extender for speed and coverage.

Pick the deco that has the features you want and is in your price range. I've had the M5 set for 3-4 years and it's great. Inexpensive up front and additional pucks are like $60.

I've got a couple of these, and they work super well to get it out to my shop 70' away and all within it. I can do videoconferencing fine.

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