Whether in the office or at home: speedy Internet is important. Here, we explain what you need to consider when it comes to Mesh Wi-Fi.
Good Internet essentially depends on two components: the transmission rate and the reception. Both of these can be improved with mesh networks.
Bad signal?
We’ve all been there. There’s a good wireless reception in the living room, only for the connection to be broken in the bedroom. Or in a large office you might have good reception in the stairwell, but not in a crucial part of the meeting room.
Conventional Wi-Fi routers, typically near telephone sockets or cable connections, reach their range limits, causing the quality of the reception to decrease. A Wi-Fi repeater will increase the range but not the transmission rate, so you have a larger distance to bridge from the router to the repeater to the terminal. This is a good method for getting WiFi in the garden.
However, even using with a repeater may result in annoying and overly slow transmission rates.
Mesh Wi-Fi solves these problems and significantly improves Internet quality. It’s certainly a term on everyone’s lips, particularly since Google released Google Wi-Fi.
Mesh technology: strong when combined
For full signal strength and a reliably fast network throughout the home or office, a Wi-Fi router with a mesh network is a very good option.
These special routers, together with several devices, build a nationwide network, effectively maintaining the Wi-Fi speed.
The network consists of several meshes and runs under the same network name (SSID – Service Set Identifier). The change from node to node takes place fluently. The Wi-Fi device is always connected to the network node that provides the strongest signal.
Mesh networks cover a very large area; Google Wi-Fi covers around 130 square metres with a single device.
Three first-class MESH WLAN systems to cover large areas
The ASUS Lyra AC2200 Tri-Band MESH WLAN system covers the entire house.
The tri-band system with three nodes provides the perfect signal coverage – up to 6,000 square feet. The ASUS Lyra app helps you install quickly and easily, as well as manage the bandwidth and solve technical problems.
The integrated AiProtection blocks security threats to protect all devices in your home network.
For a lower cost offering, try the Ubiquiti AmpliFi Home Wi-Fi System
It includes a router base station and two wireless super-mesh devices for maximum wireless coverage throughout the home.
If necessary, you can expand the system easily. You can see who is in the network and how your data is being used.
The NETGEAR Orbi Whole Home AC2200 is stylish and elegant
The world’s first tri-band Wi-Fi system for home networks, covering up to 4,000 square feet.
Need more coverage? Further Orbi satellites can be added to increase the Wi-Fi range further.
Safety first
With Mesh Wi-Fi, security settings are enabled, as is already the case with conventional repeaters. This means that the entire network is uniformly protected with no security gaps.
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