The original post: /r/homenetworking by /u/resowner92 on 2025-03-26 01:31:52.
Hi everyone! Lately I have been struggling with an unreliable internet connection and I'm hoping to get some advice on what I could do to try and improve it.
I'm currently living in an ADU and share an internet plan with my landlord, which isn't ideal, but it is my only option according to Spectrum because we also share electricity. We have our modem (Spectrum branded) and main node of our mesh router (TP Link Deco X60) located in her living room, another node in a hallway in her house which is closer to our ADU and the third node in my living room. From my node, I have wired everything I can with ethernet cables and two switches that are daisy chained together. Some days our internet connection is fine and we don't notice anything and other days like today we only have 10 down and 2 up when our plan is for 400 down and 6 up.
Does anyone have any recommendations to try out? My landlord is very open on helping my partner and I because my partner works from home while our landlord is retired. I feel like the best course of action is hiring someone to dig a trench and bury a fiber/ethernet cable underground, but I'm not sure how much something like that would cost. I will also mention that the mesh router is also up to date, we have it on a schedule to restart every night, and we also restart the modem every now and again, but it doesn't seem to help. I also haven't tried calling Spectrum yet to see if maybe it is a problem with our service.
Here is the layout of our buildings. The distance from the ADU node and middle node is roughly 30ft.
Thanks in advance!