Godspeed! ... but it seems to me that even if you do go the wireless mesh route, you'd want to keep your fixed devices that *can* be wired wired, to keep your airwaves clear for the devices that don't have alternatives.

As for the problem Mini location and multiple "MoCA routers," I'd be interested in hearing more about your coax plant and MoCA setup, if you had the inclination to give troubleshooting one more try. The MoCA stats from one or more of your MoCA-connected Minis would be educational, as well. (edit: p.s. I've found diagrams, however rough, really help in communication.)

 

Tivo doesn't support wireless for your minis. Some posters have good luck with wireless, others not.

I agree with PP. Makes more sense fixing your MoCa.

 

Indeed. If already wired, why go wireless? Wired is the officially supported method of connecting Minis. I also experimented quite a bit with wireless "tricking" Mini to think it was wired Ethernet, and I had no luck. Some people have it working no problem. If it is not broken, why fix it?

 

We just purchased a really big 1930's colonial with lath and plaster in the upstairs. I purchased three Eero's in advance of moving with hopes of not having to pay my HT installer to run cat cables all over the house for Hdmi.

Coax comes in on the main floor in the kitchen where modem & the only wired Eero are located. 40 feet away on the same level with one wall in between I have wireless Eero number 2. Up a level and 30 feetish away is the master where I have wireless Eero number 3 mounted behind a flat screen with my mini's ethernet plugged into the back. For 3 months it has worked flawlessly, with only once I saw a slow down in FF and RW and I reset the Eero's (only time) and it worked perfectly again. I plan on adding two more Eero's downstairs with minis as well in the man cave (main screen is wired as I don't want to think about it). Now with all of this said when or if 4k Minis become available I may have to sack up and pay for wiring, but until then everything is working great. This works in MY SETUP and might not work with yours as things can get strange with wifi, but the Eeros are freaking awesome.

 

I think the OP is saying go with MoCA for TiVo, and mesh wireless for mobile devices instead of using the second MoCA router? The mesh devices are supposed to have much better AP roaming, but they would still work best on wired backhaul, i.e. using MoCA for backhaul, although they would probably still be pretty good using wireless backhaul for the mesh. If the OP is talking about wireless for TiVo, no, that's not going to work as well as MoCA.

One thing I hate about Eero is that way it does channel allocations, especially in the 2.4ghz band. It seems to just gobble the whole thing up, with no control over channel selections. I purposely have my AC1900 router set to 20mhz on the 2.4ghz band, as it's such a congested mess, and pretty much everything except two old phones that are rarely used and one OG Chromecast use the 5ghz band.

 

This is what made me think the OP was looking to go fully wireless...

I want to go fully wireless

 

This is what made me think the OP was looking to go fully wireless...

If that's the case then the OP is looking in the wrong direction. Fully wireless is only a last resort, unsupported option if MoCA or Ethernet is not available. I use Powerline in my apartment and it actually works fine about 98% of the time, but it's only for lack of any better options.