![]() Still, even today Orbi or AmpliFi might be right for you, and I’ve listed more than a few points of comparison to help you make your choice. If they keep adding features to it, Orbi could easily take the lead due to its tri-band Wi-Fi hardware. Theres also the TP-Link Deco X90, a Wi-Fi 6 mesh system that outperformed the W7200 in my tests and adds in a multigig Ethernet jack for high-speed internet plans. That said, it’s worth watching what Netgear does with Orbi over the next six months. ![]() If you’re finished reading and just want to buy, my TL DR advice is that, at this very moment, I feel like eero is the best product to recommend to most users. I’ve tested three currently-available mesh offerings: eero, Netgear’s Orbi and Ubiquiti’s AmpliFi. While they all solve the same problem in basically the same way, they each have strengths and weaknesses. The good news is that as we’ve often said on Mac Geek Gab, 2016 is the “Year of the Router.” A large part of that has to do with how many mesh products we have. This kind of setup is simply not possible to build yourself with off-the-shelf routers. If one device starts streaming a ton of Netflix, for example, the mesh can identify this and either tell that client to move or start moving other clients to free up that radio for the video stream. They are all aware of each other and can work with client devices to decide which access point is best for that client at that time, not just which one is closest or has the strongest signal. Mesh routing completes that puzzle because the access points act as one. eero’s mesh – like others – blankets your home in glorious Wi-Fi everywhere Client devices have no idea how overloaded a given access point might be nor do they have an idea as to what other devices on the network exist. Yes, they can all be named the same and my client devices can connect to whichever one they deem best, but they do that on their own with no guidance from the router or extender. None of the access points knows about the other ones. On top of that, the router/extender scenario isn’t a true mesh-it’s a quasi-mesh.
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