Wife Mesh Systems

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Wife Mesh Systems

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You got any pictures first?

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My wife doesn't mesh well with my other wife.

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Have you tried shoving a line in through a backhaul?

I was gonna crack the same jokes everyone else has but meh.
Instead I'll just tell you that we use the Google Wifi 3 puck for a 1900 sq foot house, 1 story and it works perfectly.
Never any drops when roaming around the house on phones or ipads, etc.

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Instead I'll just tell you that we use the Google Wifi 3 puck for a 1900 sq foot house, 1 story and it works perfectly.
Never any drops when roaming around the house on phones or ipads, etc.

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a decent router covers a 1900sf house easily.

I have Google wifi very easy to use

As a life long IT guy, i used to never recommend mesh systems as they literally sucked balls. I installed countless Ethernet wired, multiple wireless access point systems and damn near every one of those clients were replacing shitty mesh systems, Eero the most.

Having said that, I quit that last company and have been doing freelance residential IT work for the last year or so and have put in a bunch of Orbi systems and haven't gotten one complaint yet! So I won't hesitate to recommend it. Just be sure to use it as your router as well and connect it to your ISPs modem directly. If you have a combo modem/router unit from your ISP, put it in bridge mode if possible.

Oh I absolutely know it’s overkill but I got it at half off on a Best Buy deal one day and said frick it, sure.
My google home runs my house perfectly.

I am a network engineer by profession as well. Went with the linksys velop. At the time I bought it, to my knowledge, it was one of the only ones that had wired backhaul for the APs. Each AP is wired ethernet back to my network closet.

It works like a champ. I get full circuit speeds all around the house with little drop off. They claim 1 AP covers 2000sq ft. I went with 3 for 2000 sq ft house (maybe overkill but it works).

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I'll just tell you that we use the Google Wifi 3 puck

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Dis

I’ve got google WiFi in my house. Main puck on the middle level at the north end of my house, another puck in the basement at the south end, and a puck on the 2nd floor at the south end. This means that the two “satellites” are pretty far away from the main puck.

The plus is that I have reliable, consistent, full WiFi coverage all over my house. I used to have issues of “low bars” or whatever you want to call it, and my devices would sometimes totally lose connection.

The downside is the satellites definitely put off reduced speed. I pay for gigabit, and by the main puck I get good speeds. The others give off anywhere from 50-100mbps. Plenty fast for what I need, but obviously reduced from my main unit.