Best "true" WiFi mesh system

T1M

T1M

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Hi all,

I am looking to get a home based WiFi mesh system.
Initially I looked at Google WiFi but after doing some research it's speed seems disappointing and I stopped there.
My next candidate was the Netgear Orbit but it turns out it's not a true mesh system.
By true mesh I mean that the satellites are also able to talk to oneanoone and hence send data from one satellite over another back to the router.

I would appreciate any suggestions and experiences you guys have had.

Thanks in advance

Tim
 
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Thanks Rossi, I didn't find this. Still fairly new here, only posted once.
I'll try toove or re-post.

Thanks
 
Thanks to all who have already replied.
Sounds like the by disks are liked by many...

Anyone have any other suggestions?
I mean can it be true bt makes the best mesh system?
 
If you care about performance then you shouldn't care much about mesh.
It will always fall over as throughput increases, there is no way it can't. The more hops you have in your network then the worse it becomes.
You will find use cases where it works and you will find a lot where it doesn't.
I always chuckle at fixing WiFi coverage issues by using WiFi.

If you mush go mesh then the Ubiquiti AmpliFi home could be a contender but I think cost is higher than the BT solution so that may rule it out from the start. Nice app though.

Thanks,

I am aware there will always be a performance hit when using a mesh system and I also looked at the amplifier home system from ubiquiti but I think they are also not able to pass through data from satellite to satellite (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Essentially I have an ethernet cable between the router and my desktop anyway but I would also like to be able to have WiFi around my home and in all corners for laptops and mobile devices.

Due to the thickness of the walls and the router location I will not be able to achieve coverage by only relying on router to satellite data transfer and I would need at least one or possibly 2 satellite to satellite transfers before it would reach the router in some places.
In those cases, I am happy to take the performance hit to get WiFi at all but would obviously still like to get the best speeds possible.

I have also been looking at the routes from Asus such as AC53000 (connected via ethernet cable) - a couple of them would be much more expensive and I'm not sure how well they would penetrate the old stone walls and at what performance hit.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks
 
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