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been there you get a fancy-looking wireless router that promises lightning-fast speeds and ridiculous

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range only to find that you can't even load a gift in your upstairs bedroom

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heck maybe you're experiencing this right now and I look blockier then the

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questionable content you used to watch on your parents 56k modem and with our

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increasing reliance on mobile devices these days like tablets and smart phones

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and laptops solutions for extending the

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range of your Wi-Fi have become more popular than ever including mesh

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networks and I'm not talking about meetups of fishnet donning fetishists

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you know I'm talking about a Wi-Fi setup that uses multiple nodes that can spread

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a Wi-Fi signal all of your home office or pillow fort as it were on the surface

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the way it operates seems pretty simple just connect one of the hockey puck

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looking nodes to your modem and place the others around your house or you need

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a signal boost each node connects to the others in an attempt to give you a

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stronger wireless signal over a much larger area than you'd get with a single

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router well hold on a second James I have a cheap range extender for my

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wireless networks then it sounds like it does the same thing what's the

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difference so here's the deal bro Chacho garden-variety Wi-Fi extenders or

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repeaters are notorious for degrading the network speed because their antennas

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have to communicate with both client devices like your phone and laptop as

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well as your main router your effective

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speed can be reduced as much as 50% while using one which is bunk by

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contrast nodes in a mesh network are typically engineered with separate

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antennas so they can talk not just with the main router but to each other this

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helps them handle network backhaul backhaul is all the traffic other than

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what's being transmitted to and from the iPhone in your hand although this isn't

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a perfect system and mesh networks can still slow down if you add lots of nodes

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they do tend to be much quicker than simple range extenders but hold on again

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these days you can get fancy network extenders with multiple antennas and

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even models that support mu-mimo which lets the extender send and receive from

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multiple devices simultaneously which you can learn about right here so are

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there still benefits to going with a mesh network instead as it turns out yes

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there are you see what an extender does is create a whole new Wi-Fi network

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instead of being a true extension of the one created by your router this puts you

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into one of two less than ideal situations one if your extender uses a

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different network name or SSID you have

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to manually switch to it when you want to use it or two if your extender shares

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the SSID with your main network most devices aren't smart enough to

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automatically switch to whichever one is giving off the stronger signals leading

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to frustration when you walk between your router and the extender mesh Wi-Fi

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on the other hand uses one single glorious network that's intelligently

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managed by whichever node serves as your primary router making it a seamless

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experience as you move around your house additionally mesh networks can adjust

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automatically if you add or remove nodes and quickly reroute the network traffic

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between them to account for the new node configuration and mesh networks also

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come with creature comforts that are harder to find on traditional wireless

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routers everything from easy network management with a mobile app to

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integrated support for smart home devices making them attractive to folks

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who want a set it and forget it experience however they do tend to be

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pricier than extenders so make sure that a mesh network isn't overkill for your

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home you probably don't need one if you're living in Tokyo and the only

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