Px50 6-node system dropouts
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We're struggling with 'random' dropouts in a PX50 system.
We've recently moved to a new (to us) home and bought a 3-node PX50 system as we expected WiFi to be a challenge. The house is a long/thin converted farm building set over two floors. Although the exterior walls are thick (45cm?) stone, most of the interior partitions are likely to be mid-1980s construction.
The fibre-to-property router is at one end of the building on the upper floor and we need good networking all the way to the far end, lower floor. PX50s seemed ideal.
With a three-node system (one master wired to router, one far end lower floor, one mid way lower floor), performance was not brilliant. The far-end room showed a weak signal and the streaming box (Ethernet wired to the deco) lost connection frequently.
We added a second 3-node PX50 to fill in the gaps. Upper and lower floors are almost certainly on different power circuits, so we placed one deco at the far end of the building directly above the room that was struggling (so that at worst it could PLC to the master on the same mains wiring and then mesh down WiFi to the room below. A second deco went in in the room directly below the master (same idea - mesh over WiFi to enable the power circuit downstairs - and put the final px50 midway down the lower floor so that it could bridge the two ends and to the original mid-floor unit.
Reported signal strengths generally increased to a whopping 'medium' - but we still suffer several drop outs a day whereby a streaming device will say it has lost connection (SkyQ minis - noting that the SKYQ WiFi is firmly turned off and our minis connect by Ethernet through adjacent px50s).
If I'm quick, I often spot in the app that one or more of the decos has dropped out and gone offline during these instances - quite often *not* the one we're streaming from...
Any suggestions as to how to improve this? A six-unit mesh should be overkill even with part-traditional construction of the house. All satellite units are set to auto-choose their connections but seem to default to the master. I don't know if this is indicative that the mesh isn't actually a mesh amd that were actually always in a star-satellite arrangement?
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