What do wifi mesh systems do and do they actually work?
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ELI5: You want to send a message to your friend Bob at the other side of town, asking him if he wants to come over for a beer.
In a traditional network, you would pay someone to go to him and give him the message. This is what an ISP does, they have all the “long cables”.
In a mesh network, you instead open the window, and shout out to anyone that might hear: “Tell Bob at Small Street that Fred wants him to come over for a beer!”. Someone outside realize that they are roughly in the direction of Small Street, so they yell the same message. A lot of people hear, a few of them are in the right direction and repeat it. Eventually, someone is close enough for Bob to hear it.
This is pretty much the same with wifi mesh nets. They have a slightly more advanced method of bouncing the message in the right direction, but the basic idea is that all the clients are the infrastructure, there aren’t any ISPs to connect people together.
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