Long story short, please eli5 what is the differnece or the benefits of wifi mesh system & multiple AP with the same ssid & password to cover a large area
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Mesh has “intelligence”.
Multiple APs don’t “talk” to each other. If you are in a building with many of them, depending on your device and the configuration of the APs, your device may like to stick to being connected to one even after roaming around and now you’re closer to another AP.
Mesh setups “talk” and can re-route you to the best “node”.
Mesh also don’t need to be hardwired together, they can be for backup but normally they have a hidden network they browdcast that they connect to themselves, which is different from how regular extenders/repeaters work which is why those typically can expect 1/2 the speeds.
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