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small business that is up to around the size of 5,500 to 6,000 square ft wow good for you nice mansion the part that sucks about that is that there's a lot of issues with extending ing the range of Wi-Fi Beyond I mean realistically a house or or business around the 2,000 to 3,000 square ft size now back in the mid 2000s there were a handful of ways that you could increase the range of your wireless access point you could uh just boost the gain uh many router firmwares allowed you to go in and just turn the gain up on your antennas you could reconfigure your antennas so adding uh directional antennas or Canna to address you know cold spots in your coverage was one way to go about it or you could just add a second router and by router I of course mean uh wireless access point switch router combo unit you could just add another router but all of these approaches kind of came with their own disadvantages turning up gain also turns up noise so even though the signal might travel farther it might end up being more distorted and therefore less useful every time you add a directional antenna you are taking away from the omnidirectional performance that typically every other part of your house is going to need and adding a second router is just not a great user experience because everyone has to know you know oh should I connect to upstairs or downstairs but then what if you know the upstairs one is at this end of the house and the downstairs one is right under me and I'm here but which one should I connect to now you're expecting a lot out of your users so that is where mesh Wi-Fi comes in it has the benefits of multiple access points but with the convenience of a single access point meaning that you don't have to worry about which wi-fi to connect to now back in the day obviously you could just configure your laptop or your phone or whatever other device to connect to both of them but devices have this tendency to kind of stick to whatever Wi-Fi access point they connect to first so you might come home connect to the one that's closest to your front door and then go into you know the back Den or the games room or something like that where there's an access point that's closer but your phone will still be grabbing on for dear life to that original access point that you were connected to that's why we can't trust them to manage it so Mash networks are pretty much the solution to handling a much larger space until you get up into solutions that are really designed designed more for uh commercial use or Enterprise use where you'll have individual access points that all come back to like a central server closet and they're all hardwired fundamentally though this works in pretty much the same way where each of these is a Wi-Fi 6 access point that could be used in a standalone fashion so you can see we've got uh a fully enclosed antenna design little rubber feed on the bottom so it doesn't slip around power input and then two gigabit Ethernet jacks one really cool thing about The Deco line is that while commercial Solutions will tend to use individual Ethernet cables wired out to each access point and then back to a central switch obviously that's not feasible in most homes it gives you the choice you can use Wi-Fi to communicate between the satellites and the main unit or they have Ethernet ports so you can connect them via an Ethernet cable which is going to be less susceptible to interference or leg as long as it's convenient to do so overall The Deco X20 is an affordable choice that's going to give you whole home coverage for video calls or downloads without worrying about buffering or robot voice or any of those annoying Wi-Fi problems of course all that's left for us to do now is give it a shot to simplify the setup I am going to be using our residential internet connection so I plug in a deco over here in logistics and I need an Ethernet cable ah sure internet light is stable deco's LED is pulsing Blue Logistics Linus Wi-Fi it's gigabit cool that is some spicy Wi-Fi performance 800 megabit on Wi-Fi okay we're not going to make it over the ShortCircuit set come on Andy let's go oh yeah it's dropping it's dropping it has not fully dropped yet though no no it dropped hey perfect okay good that's what we wanted so let's go install an intermediary Deco oh yeah even the little animations different this time I think it sees the the blue one cuz there's a little blue flashing light on here it's solid hey there it is okay where are we going to place this this is going to go in the uh PC build corner cool jonno do you want to pop this one in the PC build corner in the spot where I had it so the whole process for each Deco takes I don't know I'd give it about 2 to 3 minutes but all three of them are showing up in the app since we're in the app there's actually a couple of other cool things that we can check out in here so you can see all the devices on your home network you can go in here and change your Wi-Fi configuration set up a guest Network so a guest network is going to have internet access but not access to anything else that's on the network and then Advanced none of this is particularly advanced stuff but it's really nice that it's so simple to access so uh we're in wireless router mode but if for whatever reason we uh are like some isps for example it's kind of hard to get your stupid modem router switch access point combo thing it's hard to get the router functionality turned off last time I checked Shaw local for example requires you to phone them okay uh so if you just want these to operate as a wireless access point then that's totally cool let's go ahead and cart this back before we do that we can see that from the ShortCircuit set we're getting much better reception I have three Wi-Fi bars and uh probably when I click this oh yep we go the zold 3 roamed to the second access point which is over in the PC build corner TP-Link says that this transition takes about3 seconds uh let's go ahead and do a quick speed test as you can see our speeds a lot lower because there are multiple hops that we're going through and we're actually quite far away from that one as well but this is still a lot better than nothing which is what we had before I mean yeah 90 megabit per second is enough that I'm going to be able to have a video call you know what I think both deos have to be within range of the main unit so I'm going to go put this in the library what up Ethan I'm I'm leaving I won't breathe the air too much okay bye while we're waiting for that to pick up there's a couple of other things we can check out in the app test speed detect cameras ping test um you can check your public IP sure so there's a little game you play while you and there's parental controls so you can set up times of use um services that are allowed to be used for example and you can add devices on a one by one basis you can prioritize gaming or streaming in your qos just it's not really deep in terms of configuration but it's simple to use now all I need to do is see if my third Deco is now online yes it is okay looks like yes I grabbed on to the library one all right all right we switched to a Wi-Fi 6 laptop here as well for adding the third satellite and let's see what kind of speeds we get okay that's way better we're getting double the speed with the extra satellite and that's impressive considering that there's still a wall and some distance between us this setup would likely work fine for the average person but I bet we can get even better results if we connect the hubs with an Ethernet cable dang that's definitely a big Improvement compared to before almost doubling our performance again so this is a great for power users or for people who are going to have quite a few devices streaming off of the satellites if all this looks good for the next 5 days The Deco X20 is going to be discounted from $249 to $1.99 at the link down below just for 5 days thanks for watching 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