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02-14-2017, 07:51 PM | #1 |
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Can anyone recommend wifi mesh router ?
I'm sick and tired of rebooting my wifi extender and have been researching a few "wifi mesh routers".
Google wifi Eero and Amplifi Anyone delve into this tech yet ???? |
02-14-2017, 08:00 PM | #2 |
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One of my friends works on the eero. I have one of the beta test units and it is absolutely stunning. Throughout is great and I don't have any dead zones in my house. Highly recommend it!
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02-14-2017, 08:26 PM | #3 |
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http://bgr.com/2017/02/14/best-mesh-...etwork-router/
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02-15-2017, 06:03 PM | #7 |
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I despise repeaters and most mesh implementations.
The only good mesh implementation is one which uses the 5 GHz frequency as the mesh backbone and then 2.4 GHz to serve client connections. The reason this is recommended is because of how wireless operates. I can go into a whole discussion on why this is. But the proverbial TLDR response is, with mesh wireless, each hop (access point) you have to traverse to get to the wired LAN will divide your speed in half. If everything is using the same frequency which most likely will be 5 GHz as everyone is pushing 802.11ac, your latency is going to spike up too as you add more devices. Again, the TLDR, is wireless operates as a half duplex technology and only one device can talk over the frequency/channel at any given time. I would sooner use powerline adapters or a MoCA implementation to place an AP in any dead spots for coverage over any consumer grade mesh technology any day. But being a tech nerd I would go one step further and bust up some drywall to pull the proper cabling. |
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Anyways, much of my time is spent on my laptop connected wirelessly; even though I have connectivity to my edge devices running at 1 GigE, quite a few connections between switches and servers on 10 GigE, and a couple of servers on 40 GigE. |
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They have been saying wifi will displace hard wires for about 20 years now. |
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My house is pre-wired and I was planning to add another AP at the other end to boost signal and provide better exterior coverage. Been lazy and haven't gotten around to doing it as yet, mostly because I don't know what the best approach is.
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Here's my soapbox on wireless roaming.
Just because you can set up multiple APs in a given area running the same SSID does not mean that you won't have roaming issues. The AP system has to have intelligence where each AP is aware of the other. What this means is the system will automatically select non overlapping channels for each AP so no one AP that is adjacent to another will be operating on the same channel; thereby preventing co-channel interference. A wireless system of this type will constantly monitor the surrounding RF space and make any necessary adjustment to the operating channels to keep the network from dealing with interference from neighboring RF sources. The below picture is showing an example of a 5 GHz deployment where co-channel interference is being managed: The other thing the system will do is to adjust power output so no one AP is over powering another. This is counter intuitive to most lay people as they think an AP cranked all the way up to what it can output RF wise is best. No. This is not the case. It will cause roaming issues as the client device will start bouncing between APs. This picture is a predicted heat map of a wireless deployment I did for a non profit. Notice the red areas do not overlap which is where the signal from the APs are at its most intense. The last part of a unified system is the ability for the wireless system to do band steering and to force the client to associate with the AP which has the best QoS available. Roaming algorithms for client devices are not that great and they also suffer from AP "stickiness" where the client will stay associated with the initial AP even as you walk away from it and signal strength is weak. |
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Because your house is prewired, I recommend systems from companies like Aerohive, Ubiquiti, Aruba Networks with their IAPs, and Meraki. |
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As you can see from what I've said above, wireless has a long way to go before it is even in the ball park when compared to wired Ethernet with the gap widening as the standards are being worked out for 400GigE now.
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