Moca sounds like the best option in this situation along side a mesh system.

Some other users here have written very helpful guides stealing https://www.reddit.com/user/plooger/ 's link

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/15ick7f/comment/jutk8bi/

The c7 has peitty slow nat performance but not 250mbps slow nat performance. (Unless you are running sqm)

https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/oe43kb/tplink_archer_c7_v2_openwrt_nat_sqm_offloading/

I don’t know where the 2 year term and $30 extra comes in to play. (Rental of new rotuer with package)

Ontario does have a law if you signed a contract in your home you have 15 days to cancel. No questions asked. Tellus is only a isp out west so i wonder if your province has a similar law.

I woud try enabled the flow offloading feature if you haven’t.

Very unlikely to get close to 1gbs in real world situations with wifi ac. Newer wifi ax is more likely to get there. (Probably what he’s talking about.) But we are talking about a hard wired connection here so pritty moot.

How are your decos wired together?

If they all have ethernet backhaul and go through the modem than that is your issue.

Also what pools said. As your Virgin hub is now in modem mode the decos have to be in router mode as your modem will (likely) only provide one ipv4 address. There for only 1 device can be connected and nothing else will be able to talk to eachother.

If you have 2 runs you can do passive hdmi over ethernet. Probably not great for the higer bandwidth signals as well.

If your allready transcoding just go for the extenders that use IP and can go through a switch.

If you want to know how I would set up the network, I’d flash the access points with the merlin builds.

https://github.com/gnuton/asuswrt-merlin.ng

This shoud give you the flexibility to do alot of cool things. But won’t nessarialy directly help with gaming.

The second thing I would do is enable some fourm of qos. Probably asus adptive qos to not impact the line rate too much. As with twitch or multi steaming you may be pushing closer to that upload speed limit some fourm of qos on the upload would be recommend. Download being 1gb may not get saturated and not need qos.

Just my 2c

While the fact they gave you an new voucher and it didn’t work is weird. Alot of hotels have a device connection limit. Just teather the connection from your iPhone to the other devices. (Disable mobile data and turn on hotspot)