Ethernet back haul from main Deco to laptop alongside mesh? Or Ethernet from satellite Deco?
Hi there, I am hoping you can help. I have set up a mesh at home (I am no IT/network specialist!) to cover our sprawling house. Apologies for masses of detail but I am not sure what is relevant.
Main unit and 2 satellites are M4 plus we have an outdoor/all weather unit to cover the garden. All are currently installed using WiFi backhaul.
My husband’s home office is at the end of the garden and was struggling for bandwidth that enabled him to do Teams calls. We used a an Ethernet cable to connect to his laptop which didn’t improve things greatly. We then switched the Ethernet cable to connect directly to the modem which worked great for him but caused massive (upwards of 40%) packet loss in the house and slow speeds on the mesh network.
In attempt to resolve these issues I have deleted the old network, reinstalled it all as a new mesh network and swapped the unit that was originally the main Deco for one that was previously a satellite. Reddit had suggested this might be an inexplicable but effective fix for packet loss.
TLDR: would it be worth trying to connect the Ethernet from one of the satellites (Garden?) or do we have to Ethernet backhaul the router and put up with the packet loss and slow speeds in the house?