Excellent advice however not everyone wants to or is capable of going through the trouble of wifi signal propagation troubleshooting. I am in IT and am perfectly capable of setting up any network solution that I want but made the decision that I just wanted a "no fuss" wifi at home. I think that the average tech board poster asking for wifi advice probably needs the same thing.

Once we start getting into measuring wifi strength, running Ethernet drops or configuring AP's many people are thinking "screw that".

This is where the majority of the current mesh systems hit a homerun. Easy or no configuration needed, if your results aren't perfect out-of-the-box just move a node to another outlet. If your wifi needs change add another node(s) later.

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Posted by Freauxzen

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Member since Feb 2006

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Posted on 11/22/17 at 9:38 am to humblepie

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For everyone with a story like yours there is also someone who went with a better router and still had some wifi deadspots. It doesn't matter if your wifi signal goes down the street if something in your home is producing some interference between your 4k tv and the router.

That's why a router+ap is usually the better option if you don't fit in that 90%.

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My personal experience contradicts your statement. I do this everyday.

I'm not trying to be an arse in this thread but there is some serious misinformation being passed as fact here.

I've come into contact with 2 Mesh systems - Orbi and Google - and neither performed anywhere near a high-quality, expensive router (which at $250 or so is usually cheaper or right on par with a starter Mesh set). Latency was worse, multi-device streaming ended up slower.

I did my research 2-3 months and decided that splurging on a router+ap was just better in nearly all respects. Granted it isn't better in every circumstance, but Mesh did not pass the test for me for high quality 4k streamiong, gaming and a smart home system(lots of devices connected constantly).

This post was edited on 11/22/17 at 9:40 am

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