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I’m trying to set up a home office network that can handle video calls and large file transfers without lag. I’m looking at mesh systems versus a single powerful router, but I’m not sure which approach is better for my situation in a two-story house with thick walls.

I tried a mesh setup in a two story house with thick plaster walls. It helped push coverage to upstairs and cut some dead spots but it was not magic. I had to move the nodes around and check that the backhaul was not starving the main router. Video calls got better yet large file transfers still stalled when many devices were on WiFi at once.

I went with a single powerful router and ran Ethernet to a small switch for the office. Central placement mattered a lot and a wired backhaul to a second access point kept things steady. After that video calls stayed clean even with a couple people on calls and big file transfers in the background.

I am not sure the problem is only the hardware I tried both routes and still saw jitter when several devices tried to use the line at once I even started wondering if the laptop nic or the vpn is adding latency more than the wifi is.

Do you have a dedicated ethernet drop to the office or is everything wireless?

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