Hey thanks for this; super interesting. My 1969 house has ZERO phone jacks or Ethernet ports lmao. We’re set up for FIOS and I’ve been living off a mesh network.
We’re on a netgear sxk80 which is pretty robust and no real complaints but I keep thinking I could be in a better spot. Maybe I’ll give these a shot
One exception to this is Orbi Pro. They’re hard to find and expensive, but I’ve been using them at home for the past few years. They’ve been rock solid.
I did add wired backhauls this weekend and saw a significant performance benefit. I do expect to switch to TP-Link Omada at some point.
My parents have same kind of house, with their Xfinity broadband in the 3rd floor TV room. I ran Cat6 across the back down to the 1st floor for back haul and an Orbi WiFi6 mesh router now gives great signal house-wide (yard too!)
I hated the WiFi 6 Orbi system I bought. It was lacking so many fairly basic features, such as QoS, firmware updates breaking basic functionality, and a very lackluster app-focused experience.
I replaced it with an ASUS WiFi 7 system comprised of a RoG router with two Zen nodes and it’s been a lot more solid with far more configuration options than I’ve ever seen on a residential router.
Maybe the Orbi WiFi 7 line has solved their earlier issues, but I’ll never buy one again based on my prior experience.
Top Mesh Wifi Systems on Reddit
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eero
Pro 6 Series
82% positive of 177 users
Easy, reliable, smart home ready; but paid features.
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