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In home mesh wireless

Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 4:23 pm
by Cakedaddy
Anyone doing this? Anyone know anyone doing this? A LOT of people ask how they can improve their home Internet access and heard about this mesh wifi stuff. I don't use it, so know nothing about it. Anyone have any experience?

In home mesh wireless

Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 4:34 pm
by TheCatt
Cakedaddy wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 4:23 pm Anyone doing this? Anyone know anyone doing this? A LOT of people ask how they can improve their home Internet access and heard about this mesh wifi stuff. I don't use it, so know nothing about it. Anyone have any experience?
I kinda am. We Use Nest Wifi, but we have all 3 wifi points wired in. I tried mesh mode, and it worked, but it was noticeably slower (duh) due to the additional relay. Probably fast enough for phones, but wasn't fast/consistent enough for streaming 4k videos/etc to a TV, imho.

Other systems are slightly higher rated, but we have Google everything, and it's really easy to use.

In home mesh wireless

Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 4:41 pm
by Leisher
Not using it. I have a Nighthawk X12?(whatever their top model is) and an extender at the top of the house.

I have looked into mesh systems, but they seem really expensive and I don't think the performance is there to justify it.

In home mesh wireless

Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 5:53 pm
by thibodeaux
Google wifi mesh. Works pretty good.

In home mesh wireless

Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:57 pm
by Troy
thibodeaux wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 5:53 pm Google wifi mesh. Works pretty good.
Same. 2 units, one for each office.

In home mesh wireless

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2023 2:30 pm
by TheCatt
https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/mesh/rbe973sb/

$2,300 for 3 HOME wifi units? JFC. $1,700 for 2? Stupid inflation

In home mesh wireless

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2023 2:37 pm
by Cakedaddy
Look at MoCA or Ethernet over coax. If you have coax you don't use (from back in the cable TV days), it's a good way to get Ethernet through the house without having to run cables and is a better solution than mesh being that the routers would be hardwired.

In home mesh wireless

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:53 am
by Leisher
TheCatt wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 2:30 pm https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/mesh/rbe973sb/

$2,300 for 3 HOME wifi units? JFC. $1,700 for 2? Stupid inflation
The worst part is they roll out like TVs with new tech. Every quarter is something new.

The good part is that the constant products push down the price of the older ones pretty quickly.