Mesh Wifi - question

[smilodon]

Aha, I thought whatever Mesh router I went for had to replace the Fritzbox completely and connect directly to the Openreach modem. Good to know and could solve a few problems.

[A Twig]

Officially according to Linksys documentation you can only plug one node directly into the router to act as the "wireless router" but (again using bridge mode) I had two nodes plugged into the router via Cat6 and it all seemed to work fine?

I then read the documentation, realised I shouldn't have done it, and changed it to the layout you see above

Yeah no problemo, I spent far too long planning mine, so happy to try and save someone from the home wifi wormhole I ended up in

[smilodon]

Never updated this one and again thanks for the advice. Ended up going with the simple option and installed a load of Google Wi-fi
units, both the current Nest Wi-fi units and older Google wi-fi ones to get the LAN ports. Add a couple of managed switches and it's
all good. Plus  I can now ask Google Assistant to tell me an awful joke in every room in my house.