All of your devices need a good wireless signal.
Previous Time Warner worked on 1st floor.

Why can't you run the AT&T feed to the 1st floor??

Have AT&T feed enter close to the one spot in the basement to snake a line upstairs.
Or--have AT&T enter the 1st floor in a central location--where Time Warner entered.

As good as an Orbi system in. I got bit by the Netgear pathetic tech service when the latest firmware bricked two nodes. They hit the trash seconds after I was told I was SOL and couldn’t be retroflashed

That stated. I’m going to toss a brand out that gets little attention for consumer grade networking. Ubiquiti…….. or rather AMPLIFI for prosumers. I have switched over to 3 of the aliens in a metal, rebar reenforced concrete block “faraday” house and it’s never had signal strength consistent or as stable. Im very impressed with them. Not inexpensive is only drawback

Thanks all. So I think I will end up giving the access point a try. I need to take another look at the modem/router as I can't remember off hand how many spots it has for wired, but I might just leave the downstairs as is and only work on the main floor.

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Originally posted by SIGfourme:
All of your devices need a good wireless signal.
Previous Time Warner worked on 1st floor.

Why can't you run the AT&T feed to the 1st floor??

Have AT&T feed enter close to the one spot in the basement to snake a line upstairs.
Or--have AT&T enter the 1st floor in a central location--where Time Warner entered.

Thanks, mainly due to the layout of the house and the finished basement. The cable line comes in on the north east corner/frony of the house right into the main floor livingroom and the ATT comes from the phone line on the south side/back of the house into the basement.
I already have a coax running from the main floor down through the floor into the downstairs bedroom and I can run a cat6 line right with that.
The only way I could get the ATT stuff upstairs is to run another phone line instead of the cat6, but that would put me right where I was with the old setup and not have any good coverage downstairs again.

We moved into a 3,500 2 story house, router on first floor. We tried the repeaters, configuration wasn't fun, and the service was spotty. Switched to Google mesh, 1 base and two satellites and we have seamless internet access throughout the house and on the back porch.