Ok, I'm not the most tech savvy person and I'm getting ready to move to a 2 story house and all 3 bedrooms are upstairs. I already don't like it lol. It'll be just me in the house with occasional visitor.

• I'm only going to order one Wi-Fi router from AIS and I will probably have it installed in living room downstairs, next to TV. My 3rd bedroom upstairs will be my office.

• I'll probably have my PC setup on the dining room table downstairs a few feet from the Wi-Fi router. In the future I might want to move the PC up to one of the bedrooms upstairs.

My question is "to future proof this house should I have the AIS folks run Cat 5 from the Wi-Fi router downstairs to all 3 bedrooms upstairs?"

Using a mesh system would be easier. AIS offer this.

1 minute ago, sungod said:

Using a mesh system would be easier. AIS offer this.

Excellent! Thank you!

I too live in a two story house and have not had to go that far. We have the router and all the Wifi bits installed upstairs in the master bedroom as I use it as an office, and my wife has her office upstairs as well. As for downstairs its all on Wifi and the signal is consistently good. The main TV is in the guest room downstairs behind yet another wall and we can stream all we want. We dont have a super duper Wifi package, just AIS 500/300 and it has served us very well. It is all the mesh system.

Guests that come from the states and Europe are quite impressed with the speed, stability, and cost especially compared with what they pay.

It’s in Thai but you will get the idea.

https://youtu.be/Ec8rTRBxOJ0?si=av82Dr8djFz8a36r

8 minutes ago, marin said:

I too live in a two story house and have not had to go that far. We have the router and all the Wifi bits installed upstairs in the master bedroom as I use it as an office, and my wife has her office upstairs as well. As for downstairs its all on Wifi and the signal is consistently good. The main TV is in the guest room downstairs behind yet another wall and we can stream all we want. We dont have a super duper Wifi package, just AIS 500/300 and it has served us very well. It is all the mesh system.

Guests that come from the states and Europe are quite impressed with the speed, stability, and cost especially compared with what they pay.

This is awesome news I really haven't kept up with the technology. Thank you!

6 minutes ago, sungod said:

It’s in Thai but you will get the idea.

https://youtu.be/Ec8rTRBxOJ0?si=av82Dr8djFz8a36r

This is great, thank you!

I would always go for wired over wireless whenever possible.

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2 hours ago, Furioso said:

My question is "to future proof this house should I have the AIS folks run Cat 5 from the Wi-Fi router downstairs to all 3 bedrooms upstairs?"

If you wanted to go wired it would be interesting to see how much AIS would charge - or even if interested. You would probably be better off getting an electrician or do it yourself.

However if you are talking future proof I would go with minimum Cat 6. Offers a lot of benefits over 5e.

2 hours ago, sungod said:

Using a mesh system would be easier. AIS offer this.

As do True...most practical solution..and not expensive...

2 hours ago, Furioso said:

Ok, I'm not the most tech savvy person and I'm getting ready to move to a 2 story house and all 3 bedrooms are upstairs. I already don't like it lol. It'll be just me in the house with occasional visitor.

• I'm only going to order one Wi-Fi router from AIS and I will probably have it installed in living room downstairs, next to TV. My 3rd bedroom upstairs will be my office.

• I'll probably have my PC setup on the dining room table downstairs a few feet from the Wi-Fi router. In the future I might want to move the PC up to one of the bedrooms upstairs.

My question is "to future proof this house should I have the AIS folks run Cat 5 from the Wi-Fi router downstairs to all 3 bedrooms upstairs?"

I have a large two-story house. I installed an Ethernet cable (CAT6) from the router downstairs up to a second router upstairs. I have separate Wi-Fi networks for each floor. From the upstairs router I also installed direct cable to the TV so streaming works reliably at full speed (same for tv downstairs, direct cable).

Wi-Fi alone caused too much speed loss and a booster/repeater didn’t solve the problem either.

Running the cable yourself isn’t difficult. If you don’t already have the tools for cutting and installing connectors on cable just order the right length what you need.

Edited August 1Aug 1 by FinChin67

4 hours ago, topt said:

If you wanted to go wired it would be interesting to see how much AIS would charge - or even if interested. You would probably be better off getting an electrician or do it yourself.

However if you are talking future proof I would go with minimum Cat 6. Offers a lot of benefits over 5e.

Well, I just found out via google that AIS 3bb don't run cable all through the house they just do enough to install the router.

Good info to know. I plan on being in this house only 2 years, with a slight possibility of an extra year but I doubt it. It's a nice house but I was in a rush to get out of Jomtien condo living and didn't really think that a 2 story might not be for me.

I'll go with the mesh solution for now and if it's not good enough I can hire local electricians or do it myself.

You just buy a standard TP link router for 1-2K baht max and a long enough cable to connect to downstairs / main internet router, and some of those nails to put the cable nicely in place. Then you just configure the same SSID name and password. It will auto use strongest signal (thats how sniff attacks happen). Is like a few clicks and done today. Alternative just call it the same but 'Upstairs' or whatever.

I would this over using repeaters and other crap as the thai internet routers usually come with 1 port at 2-4gbps too, ideal for this, max speed to the second router.

But all this isn't even needed for a standard Thai built 2 floor house. 3 floors is different. Or if somehow it was double brick concrete style maybe. Cable also way better for a smart TV box with streaming etc.

You are really overthinking this hardcore btw. 5G is great too nowadays. It's 2026, routers are not what it was 10 years ago.

Edited August 1Aug 1 by sunrisecoconuts

1 hour ago, sunrisecoconuts said:

You are really overthinking this hardcore btw. 5G is great too nowadays.

Presuming you mean 5g mobile data signal and If that is what you want then fine.

Would not work with my laptop and no interest in hot spotting - cost would be far higher as well.

1 hour ago, sunrisecoconuts said:

It's 2026, routers are not what it was 10 years ago.

No they are not - with a house with multiple IOT appliances that you may want to segregate using Vlans and going to bridge mode and using OpenWrt or similar you can get some very good routers that will give you far more than your 5g signal........

Horses for courses as we used to say.........😉

Edit - yes I know you sort of covered it earlier in your post but then you added the 5g bit........

Edited August 1Aug 1 by topt

10 hours ago, topt said:

Presuming you mean 5g mobile data signal and If that is what you want then fine.

Would not work with my laptop and no interest in hot spotting - cost would be far higher as well.

No they are not - with a house with multiple IOT appliances that you may want to segregate using Vlans and going to bridge mode and using OpenWrt or similar you can get some very good routers that will give you far more than your 5g signal........

Horses for courses as we used to say.........😉

Edit - yes I know you sort of covered it earlier in your post but then you added the 5g bit........

Yeah very relevant for a single person using wifi at home without special requests, not. Typical nerd reply without practical reality awareness.