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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Advice for anyone, regardless of who you get your internet from:
Walk from room to room and run a speed test *before* installing any pods. You may not need any additional hardware, additional points of failure, potential sources of interference, or additional costs.
Different providers, different modem/router, different homes, and different furniture makes everyone's situation different. Running a speed test on your phone is very simple and will let you know if you truly need more than the single modem/router.
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Thank you for this comment. With the new Wifi7 equipment that Quantum fiber and other's are now offering with their internet service, in most homes you do not need the extender pods in order to get adequate coverage. If you install an extender and they are too close then they will do more harm than good.
The only installations that I've seen where an extender pod was necessary is in a very large Premier home where the main pod was installed in an office on one side of the home and the extender was installed on the other side of the home. Also, if you have a home where a front bedroom/office is the only place to install the main pod, in some homes due to the layout and the number of walls the wifi signal has to pass through, an extender may be needed to get adequate coverage but it must be placed as far away as possible from the main pod.
Upon the completion of activating the main wifi pod the technician is supposed to use a special app to check the wifi coverage throughout your home and if there is any room where the wifi signal is too low, they will install an extender pod to improve the coverage.
The same applies if you go and get your own equipment such as a Netgear Orbi or Amazon Eero. You may be able to get away with only the main wifi7 router and if not, one satellite should be more than adequate to saturate most sized homes here in the Villages.
The only exception to this rule is if you want a wired equivalent connection to a home theather where there is no ethernet connection for example, you can use some of the more specialized Wifi7 devices which have their own wireless backhaul system. This is a whole other discussion. If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll add to this thread.
Remember, the higher you can place the main pod such as on a shelf over a desk or furniture, the greater the wifi coverage you will get because there will be less obstructions for the signal to pass through to get to the rest of your home. So, wifi device placement is the most important task in order to get the best wifi coverage throughout your home.