Currently looking into buying a router for my home as it was recommended after multiple issues with my wifi disconnecting and dropping in certain areas of the home except right next to the router (expected). So I did some digging and discovered the Mesh System. I don’t understand how it increases the signal at all, especially since I just learnt that bandwidth is limited so you can only go as fast as the 5gHz or 2.5 will allow?
Would very much appreciate a cool lesson on how mesh system and its nodes work so I can have better wifi connections lol
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If you get a bad signal between the laptop and the router then it is going to have to slow down the speed, repeat the same signals, etc. Think of how you might talk in a noisy bar. A mesh access point can act as a repeater. So if you have good connection to the access point and it have good connection to the router then you can use this point to get faster speeds to the router. You do this by placing the mesh point between the router and your laptop.
Dedicated WiFi hardware is generally better then a laptop and far better then a phone at getting a good signal. They usually have multiple radios which allow them to use multiple channels at once and have several different types of antennas they can chose between. The mesh point can therefore find an optimal radio, antenna and frequency to talk to the router on which your laptop does not have the hardware for. And it can then using a different radio and antenna talk to your laptop at the same time. This means that you can send data faster without losing any data in the noise and it does not have to repeat the data as often. So in general you get a faster network.
I would highly recommend you look at hard wiring the mesh access point as well. By connecting a long network cable between your router and the mesh access point it will have a much better connection then its wireless radio can ever get.
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