Question Home WiFi - rebuilding

[nick]

So
We curently have Sky broadband - and have managed to get it running all over the house (because they have given me a couple of booster boxes + the Sky Q box and mini box (I think) act as mesh extenders).

But it comes in through the copper and max speed is 30mbps

Have just got a Three 5g router. Which gives seems to get up of 900MBPS - lovely

The end game is to bin the Sky contract and move to the Three one - (same price - 30 times faster) but.....
The Huewei Router from Three seems to have limited range - even on 2GHZ

What is best answer?: is it
a) somehow get the 5G router to "feed" the Sky network - (noting that end game is to kill the Sky broadband, but I reckon I should be able to hang on to the "rented" router as I seem to have a "spare" to return to them)
If so, how?
b) Buy a dedicated set of Mesh network things (TP Link, Deco, Netgear Orbit, something else) and add them to the new Three 5G network
Is so how?
c) else

Don't mind throwing a bit of money at it to get it working properly (including replacing the Hawaii 5Grouter if there is a better alternative that works off the SIM). But don't like being beholden to expensive monthly commitments.)
Properly means fast and robust everywhere

Really really want to end up with just one network so that all the devices can talk to each other and there is not dropping between various networks

Want to learn a bit more about it - what is a useful resource? Google just seems to throw up loads of conflicting specific Q & A

thanks

 

[souljacker]

Is the Huawei the complete router with built in wifi? Can you switch the WiFi off and take an ethernet cable out of it and plug it in somewhere else? If so, I'd suggest getting a good wifi mesh system and plugging it into the Huwaei then using that for the WiFi and make the Huawei basically a 5G modem.

 

[nick]

The Huawei is a H122-373 5G CPE Pro 2 (5G 3.6GBPS WiFi 6 plus 2976 MBps) - according to the box
It does have a LAN port, a LAN/WAN port and a phone port

(The Sky is an SR102 FYI)

What is a good wifi mesh system at the moment? (and would it be better than cabling the Huawei into the Sky router and using that as a mesh system (if such a thing is possible)?)

 

[nick]

should anyone care.
Threw myself at the mercy of the Sky user forums
Did some shopping and had a play around today.
Bought an Asus Zen Wifi XT8 Ax6000 mesh for £300
Moved 5G router to behind the TV (middle of the house, but it still seems to pull > 500 mega things). Turned off its wifi
Cable from 5G router to TV box.
Another cable from 5G router to the Asus router. Set up the network on the Asus with the same name and password as the old Sky network
Killed the sky network
Still seem to get a couple of hundred in most places around the home
I'll give it a few days (because hubris) and then sack off Sky broadband
Happy days

 

[magneze]

Sounds like a good solution. Had to extend wifi this year and used a TP Link extender in 'fast' mode which used 5Ghz dedicated to talk to main network and 2.4Ghz as the extension. I considered wifi mesh but seemed overkill for our relatively small place. 100gb all over now.