ᐅ How can I set up Wi-Fi and telephone services, as well as technical installations, in the basement?

My mesh network runs smoothly with a Fritz router (in the attic) and Fritz repeater (connected as an access point on the ground floor via LAN). Making calls over the Wi-Fi with handover works without any issues.

I am more having trouble extending the DECT signal from the attic through the upper floor to the ground floor. The DECT repeater is not yet working as desired...

lastdrop schrieb:

My mesh network runs smoothly with a Fritz router (in the attic) and a Fritz repeater (connected via LAN as an access point on the ground floor). Calling over Wi-Fi with handover works without issues.

I’m rather having trouble getting the DECT signal from the attic through the first floor to the ground floor. The DECT repeater isn’t working as desired yet...

That should be easily solved with two IP-DECT base stations, right?

Tarnari schrieb:

This should be easily solved with two IP DECT base stations, right?

Do you have a suggestion?

Ben-man schrieb:

That is absolutely not nonsense. Just try telling that to devices with poor Wi-Fi chips, like a Fire Tablet or every other mid-range phone. They do endpoint hopping nonstop because the signal from one access point doesn’t always reach the device well, so the device switches.

First of all, I do not assume any faulty devices (my Fire Tablet behaves perfectly fine in this regard). Secondly, there are other solutions for such problems, but fundamentally the device SHOULD switch when reception is poor. To manage this reliably, there are appropriate management solutions, but in a single-family home, I still consider a setup with a single SSID to be the best option if you don’t want to switch manually all the time.

Ben-man schrieb:



In my example, the issue arises when the router also broadcasts Wi-Fi. In that case, it makes sense to set up the router's repeaters as access points, because the router and the access points then broadcast the same SSID and negotiate among themselves which connection point is best for the client. If you want the router to broadcast Wi-Fi and use the Unifi as an access point, you have to either use different SSIDs or assign the same SSID to both, which will inevitably cause problems for clients because they won’t know which one to connect to.

I don’t quite understand why it’s better to turn off the router’s Wi-Fi. I have the router in the basement and a Unifi AC-Pro access point on each floor, ground floor and top floor. All devices always connect to either the access point or the router depending on where they are in the house. They all use the same SSID.

When I’m in the basement, my phone connects to the router, and when I go upstairs to the living room, my phone switches to the access point on the ground floor.

K1300S schrieb:

First of all, I don’t assume any faulty end devices (my Fire Tablet is completely fine in this regard).

This is not about faulty end devices but rather about normal devices as commonly sold today. Of course your Fire Tablet seems fine if you’re not paying attention to this issue. If you currently have two different access points broadcasting the same SSID, change one SSID and you’ll be surprised how much longer your Fire Tablet’s battery lasts. You’ll notice this within three days immediately.

K1300S schrieb:

but basically the device SHOULD switch when the signal reception is poor.

Of course, that’s how it should work, but if the device switches every three minutes due to signal strength issues that originate from the client side and not the access point, that becomes counterproductive.

K1300S schrieb:

There are management solutions to control this, but in a single-family home, I still consider using one SSID the best solution if you don’t want to manually switch all the time.

We agree there. That’s why I said that if a FritzBox is used, ideally a FritzRepeater should be used as an access point, because then the FritzBox access point and the client decide where the client connects. But that has nothing to do with mesh Wi-Fi.

Malz1902 schrieb:

I don’t quite understand, why is it better to turn off the FritzBox Wi-Fi?

To avoid hopping between networks. If that’s not the case for you—for example, because your basement ceiling greatly attenuates the basement Wi-Fi—then it’s not better to turn off the FritzBox Wi-Fi, it just doesn’t matter.