What is Mesh Wi-Fi?
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·Techquickie
·2019-05-06
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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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