Mother in Law House is the Problem
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THE PROBLEM - Two houses (main house and a mother-in-law house 100' away) on the network, network consists of the modem and 3 routers daisy chained together by ethernet cable. ("Daisy chain" is the term the installer used, but he has retired and moved away.) Main house has the modem and 2 of the routers. The last router is 100' away in the mother in law house.
MY ORIGINAL FIX - I planned to put all 3 Deco units in the main house and leave the existing router in the mother in law house still connected via ethernet cable. But I can't figure out how to do this...
TP LINK SUPPORT'S FIX - Rep Rondal said I have to run from the modem to the router, then to the Deco. But I can't move the modem and I can't move her router, so to follow TP Links advice I would have to run another 100' ethernet cable out to mom's place. And even if I could, wouldn't that slow down the system even more?
OPTIONS - So are there any other options I could look at to get my plan to work? If not, I would be willing to buy another Deco unit to replace her router, but it would have to be run by ethernet cable, as it's too far for wireless. Would that work?
