The problem with this is that every client device would also need to support WiFi 7 in order to take advantage of WiFi 7
Most older devices are only WiFi 5 so you’re not going to see any of the advantages of a WiFi 7 router
Q: MESH in the home - what's good, and what's not?
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Most older devices are only WiFi 5 so you’re not going to see any of the advantages of a WiFi 7 router
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My router is 6E and therefore my mesh will have to be compatible with that i presume
Keeping it simple. I have 3 Belkin power point plug things. The primary sits near the router and has an Ethernet between them, and plugs into a power socket. You then plug in another in the areas you want WiFi. The internet signal travels along the mains wiring to the other units and then gives it out as a WiFi signal. In my case I have it in the garage and conservatory works well.
IIRC , it’s called a TP link extender
IIRC , it’s called a TP link extender
Perhaps need to play with routing metrics? I have a main PC with wifi and a backup powerline (mostly as the wireless driver needs to be rebuilt after an upgrade). The wifi has the priority (lower metric) so the powerline only gets used if the wifi is down.
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It's an odd one.
I've analysed all the logs and the only thing that's potentially flagged is "high latency" from the ISP - but it's actually not all that high and has remained about the same for the last 4 years during which time I've never had any issues with the various VPNs I've had to use.
A colleague in Spain said he'd gone through the same world of pain and eventually 'fixed' the problem by going hardwired. The problem with this kind of 'fix' is that the root cause hasn't been discovered - which always bothers me.
In the short term, if the powerlines will prevent me from having to reconnect (and re-log in with 2FA to three different systems) five times a day then I'll be happy until I can figure out what's going on.
Newer WiFi technologies are generally backwards compatible.
So any Mesh system you get should work OK, just without the 6E benefits unless it is 6E compatible itself.
But again, 6E or indeed 7 is redundant unless your client devices support it, otherwise your WiFi network falls back to the older 5 standard
Keeping it simple. I have 3 Belkin power point plug things. The primary sits near the router and has an Ethernet between them, and plugs into a power socket. You then plug in another in the areas you want WiFi. The internet signal travels along the mains wiring to the other units and then gives it out as a WiFi signal. In my case I have it in the garage and conservatory works well.
