Home Wifi Mesh System Help

[HouTex 1939]

I have ATT for my cell service (iPhone 7) and my cell reception sucks at home so I need wifi calling to talk inside my house.  I currently have a Comcast router upstairs and a TP Link extender downstairs and they work OK so long as you don't walk around the house while you talk.  They have different SSIDs (the extender is [comcastname].ext) and the phone will not hand off the connection without losing the call.  I understand that a true mesh system will allow the wifi signal to be seamlessly handed off from one node to another as you move around the house and that calls should not be disconnected.  There are reviews online saying that the Google system is not a true mesh system and that it has problems with ATT iPhone service in any event.  Has anyone had success with the TP-Link Deco, Linksys Velop or the EEROS systems using ATT wireless phone service?  Any other ideas?

[Lobwedgephil 1146]

I have eeros at home and wifi calling works great with At&t. But I also have google wifi at work and wifi calling also works great. 

 

Cheaper solution may be ditching At&t and getting a provider that works in your house. 

Edited December 18, 2018 by Lobwedgephil

[HouTex 1939]

5 minutes ago, Lobwedgephil said:

I have eeros at home and wifi calling works great with At&t. But I also have google wifi at work and wifi calling also works great. 

 

Cheaper solution may be ditching At&t and getting a provider that works in your house. 

Thanks.  But no provider works well in our house.  It's a four year old patio home and for whatever reason no matter the carrier no one gets good reception inside my house.  So wifi calling is a must.  I used to have the ATT mini tower device and it worked well and then they discontinued it.  I'm looking at the eeros.

[hornbri 1508]

I have Velop in our house and it works well. We are using 2 nodes plus the base and that is covering the whole house, the pool area, and a detached garage with an apartment above it. No problems at all walking around the house. 

I have an additional node I am about to add and move them around a little as there are a couple of corners it does not quite reach. 

[Chewbacca 7829]

I have Orbi in my house.  Works great.  Got it at Costco with 2 satellites.  Covers every inch of my 3 level (including basement), ~3500sf house.

[gsoda3 3362]

2400 sq ft house. We have the velop system. One tri band main node and two dual bands. It's made a noticeable difference. Our TVs all stream from Roku apps and we have somewhere around 10 Alexa/goog devices that work seamlessly without buffering or dropped service now. I can traverse our quarter acre property on a WiFi call and not get dropped. It's nice. Worth it to me.

[Bill Clay 48]

We have eero and it works great. 4 units over 4800sf (3 down 1 upstairs). Could probably have gotten away with 3 but I work from home and wanted one in my office specifically.

[zork 629]

When we downgraded last year to the 20,000 sf beach bungalow we weren't sure which way to go with the wifi mesh either.  

[Hate 20247]

Third or fourth the Eeros.  It's a great system.  3600 sq feet of wifi goodness including great wifi out to the pool.

[Buzzrock 15136]

Two friends with Velop swear by it

[kevwun 16437]

For you folks with eeros, how often do you have to reboot the units?  We are about to get fiber at home and the new fiber router from our telco will almost never have to be rebooted.  My wife works from home, so I want something that is as stable as possible for her.  I might start out with two regular erro units so she can have a wired ap in her office.  I'm assuming one eero can be the router for the house and the 2nd eero in her office can function just as an ap?

[Lobwedgephil 1146]

51 minutes ago, kevwun said:

For you folks with eeros, how often do you have to reboot the units?  We are about to get fiber at home and the new fiber router from our telco will almost never have to be rebooted.  My wife works from home, so I want something that is as stable as possible for her.  I might start out with two regular erro units so she can have a wired ap in her office.  I'm assuming one eero can be the router for the house and the 2nd eero in her office can function just as an ap?

I've had mine for a couple of years, haven't rebooted yet. 

[Hate 20247]

I’ve never had to reboot any of the eeros. I’ve got 3 at home and 5 at the ranch. They have have rebooted during that time, but I’ve never had any issues with them that would require a reboot.

[HouTex 1939]

I ended up buying the Netgear Orbi mini from Costco mainly because of Costco’s generous return policy and the reviews were good. So far, it works very well. Wifi calls with our iPhones are fine even while moving all around the house. The internet connections on laptops and other devices seem better as well.