Hi all,
Hoping you can clear this up for me. Getting confused between mesh and roaming wifi. I thought it was Mesh I wanted but now I think its just roaming.
Current have internet connection into one corner of the house through a virgin media box set to modem only mode. Then I have a TP-link wifi router. This has a wired connection to a netgear router set as an access point at the opposite corner of the house. Each of these devices has different wireless SSID.
As they're both in corners of the house there's points in the house where wireless clients cling onto one of the routers where they could have a better connection by switching to the other network. I see "mesh" networks advertised by TP-link (e.g. deco x20, m9 plus) and netgear (e.g. rbk50, rbk852) which offer seamless transitioning between access points throughout a house. However I think the "mesh" part of these wifi systems is the wireless backhaul (not really needed in current house, maybe in future) between access points. Researching ubiquiti devices has made me realised what I think I need is better roaming. As their mesh wifi products are for stadiums etc.
Any comments?
Hoping you can clear this up for me. Getting confused between mesh and roaming wifi. I thought it was Mesh I wanted but now I think its just roaming.
Current have internet connection into one corner of the house through a virgin media box set to modem only mode. Then I have a TP-link wifi router. This has a wired connection to a netgear router set as an access point at the opposite corner of the house. Each of these devices has different wireless SSID.
As they're both in corners of the house there's points in the house where wireless clients cling onto one of the routers where they could have a better connection by switching to the other network. I see "mesh" networks advertised by TP-link (e.g. deco x20, m9 plus) and netgear (e.g. rbk50, rbk852) which offer seamless transitioning between access points throughout a house. However I think the "mesh" part of these wifi systems is the wireless backhaul (not really needed in current house, maybe in future) between access points. Researching ubiquiti devices has made me realised what I think I need is better roaming. As their mesh wifi products are for stadiums etc.
Any comments?