Requirement for improving home network performance
Requirement for improving home network performance
Hello everyone, this is going to take some time, so don’t be too hard on me. I’ve just finished setting up a big “man cave / studio” in the back garden. It includes a dedicated wall Ethernet port, similar to what you’d find in offices. The cable runs about 8-10 meters from the router in the house to my bedroom upstairs and my brother’s bedroom. That means three ports are used on the router. Outside the studio, I’ve connected all my devices—Smart TV, PS4, etc.—via Ethernet using a network switch. But because of weak Wi-Fi signals through thick walls, I switched to a TP-Link Travel Router, which I thought would be better than buying a separate one.
I connected the switch directly to the wall Ethernet port, and then placed the PS4, Smart TV, and TP-Link router inside as an access point. However, setting this up has been problematic. The main house network is really slow—websites load slowly or not at all on my PC, and the same goes for my brother. On my studio side, though, everything works perfectly, giving maximum speeds for the devices connected via Ethernet.
Could it be I did something wrong? Or am I using an inefficient setup that’s hurting the main Wi-Fi channels? Bandwidth shouldn’t be the issue since we have a fast Virgin Media plan (around 300 Mbps download, about 200 upload). I’ve also attached a rough diagram, which might just confuse things more than help. TL;DR: Adding an access point outside with separate Wi-Fi SSIDs has caused major speed drops inside the house and in the studio. Did I do it incorrectly?