Just because you have a Gig internet connection, that means nothing to your internal lan. No ISP knows how to setup an internal lan, they put 1 router somewhere in your house and leave. So much more to it. 1 router won’t cut it, I have 4 mesh routers inside my house and 1 router in my garage, most wired and a couple using the proprietary 2.5G backhaul to communicate between routers. I can go anywhere in and outside of my house and get over 800Mb on wifi.
Don’t fall for the cheap/worthless wap’s, or extenders that plug into an electrical outlet, they don’t work. Do it right, spend a few bucks and you won’t have to worry about it for a long time.
If you get a mesh network, get at a minimum the 6e or 7, don’t get anything older.
Also, you know how to tell when your isp or network guy doesn’t know what they are doing? How many ssid’s (wifi names) do you have? If it’s more than 1, you hired the wrong people to touch your network. I’ve had the same ssid for decades and will have it for the foreseeable future.
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