Using different wifi access point

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Hi
Couple of questions and I hope I can explain myself correctly. Currently since my move from Fibre optic to an older house that the best I can get is the T3200 and copper 150/30, I have been using the Wifi booster, but are not happy with the cover. The house is around 4200s/f and there is no hard wired ethernet except for a couple of rooms. So I have 4 of these Telus Wifi boosters. One is wired in the same room as the modem as one has to be wired. One is downstairs (hardwired) in my media room, one in the main floor living room and one upstairs. I was wanting to try a new Deco X75 Pro Tri-band modem. Currently I have it connected to a switch which is connected to the modem. I labelled the wifi a different ssid to test coverage. So far on one unit I get full wifi bars everywhere on the main floor and upstairs. So I can put another one downstairs and end up having just 2 units. My question if I wanted to use the Deco as a modem and put the Telus modem into bridge mode, do the other 3 ports on the Telus modem stop working? So whatever I put into those ports would have to now get plugged into another switch? Or is it better just to use the Deco as a wifi access point? If I do that and unplug the wifi boosters, is there a way to have devices not connect to the built in wifi of the Telus modem itself and connect to the Deco access points. Or are devices smart enough to try to connect to the strongest signal? Also, if I do use as access point, then do I lose the Mesh benefits? I wanted to use the 6E backhaul to get ethernet to a PC. Thanks for any replies.


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