Some clarification. No single router will cover a home in the villages adequately unless it’s a studio with no walls. A mesh network is not a mesh network unless you are using more than 1 mesh router. Never use a WiFi 6 mesh router, that’s old technology, the minimum mesh router to buy is the WiFi 6e or above, these provide a proprietary backhaul connection between routers with speeds up to 2.5Gbps. Also, galaxy, the geek squad, xfinity, spectrum, quantum, or most of these companies don’t know how to install a WiFi network inside your house. There solution is 1 router and maybe a couple repeaters which you shouldn’t use.
For good WiFi coverage in a home, here are some examples: my 2400 sq ft home I use 4 6e mesh routers, with 2 of them wired and 2 using the proprietary 6e backhaul connection. My whole house is automated so I need coverage to my outside WiFi grill and all the devices in my garage. I can go into any room and get 800Mb WiFi speed and in each room with a router, I also have a 5 port switch connected to it so I hook up every tv/dvd/Apple TV/roku device to this switch which allows these devices to think they have wired connections instead of the 2.4ghz WiFi, which the wired connection gives you much faster speeds.
In my prior house of 5500sg ft, I also used 5 routers but every room had cat6 cable and I had a 16 port switch in the wiring closet. So every computer had 1Gb speed and the routers were all wired so I had the max WiFi speed.
For a friends house here, we used 5 6e mesh routers, all using the proprietary backhaul connection between routers and he gets good coverage everywhere.
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