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Anyone know about these?

At the moment I have some Devolo homeplugs around the house to work with BT Hub 5 / fiber internet.

Someone suggested a few of these around the house (4 floors, 1750s house with thick walls) would be better than the homeplugs.

Anyone have any experience of them, or even tell me the basics of how they work? It seems I connect one by cable to the homehub and plug the other in somewhere else in the house. Sound correct?

Any advantage / disadvantage to them?

Thanks very much. Kevin
 
It's a mesh system.

Essentially you put your isp router into modem only mode and the mesh units take over wireless and router duties.

One plugs directly to your isp router and the others are placed inside the wireless reception of that unit and they boost the signal out.

Only issue with mesh is that a portion of the bandwidth is reserved for the mesh. So with each hop you will loose some Internet speed.

I got the tplink deco mesh units and have been very happy.
 
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We use a Mesh system here (Open Mesh), works very well and the nodes we use have far better wireless range than the BT home hub.
 
Thank Neil, that's helpful.

Do you know how easy it is to use the business hub 5 with them? Given that it's a BT product, I'd imagine that it is easy to pair up.

Thanks again.
 
Thanks Alan, certainly worth investigating a little more.
 
Installed three disks last week.
After a bit of repositioning they work superbly.
Will work with any router, just plug ethernet cable into router and turn routers wi-fi off. I’ve also plugged my sky q box and sky mini into two of the disks and that’s improved sky connectivity which I used to have some issues with.
The app isn’t great but I believe it’s being update soon. Having said that, once set up the app isn’t really necessary.
 
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I use the netgear orbi’s. It’s pretty good. The plus with the orbi is that it has its own dedicated channel for the mesh backhaul so doesn’t eat into the available bandwidth for your WiFi.
 
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