What is Mesh WiFi

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Mesh WiFi is a system that extends your WiFi range as well as the speed. As the name “Mesh WiFi” suggests, each and every part of your WiFi system works together to improve the overall speed and coverage of the internet.
Mesh WiFi is basically a group of routers that can be placed in various locations throughout your home, eliminating the dead and weak spots in your WiFi.
WiFi points in Mesh WiFi communicate with each other wirelessly to create a single, large WiFi network. These nodes wirelessly transmit data across each other to form a ‘mesh’ which basically allows you to walk around your home without having any connectivity problems.

How Mesh WiFi Works

Mesh WiFi comes in with three or more routers. One connects to your WiFi modem supplied by your Internet Service Provider, and the others are generally placed in the house where you struggle with speed and connectivity issues.
These nodes communicate with each other back and forth using radio frequency. Each and every router is connected to each other, so you have multiple access points connected to each other, which extends your WiFi reach and blankets your entire house with better WiFi coverage.

Mesh WiFi vs Range Extender

Range Extenders

Range extenders have been here for many years, solving the problem of dead spots where you are not getting any WiFi signals. These extenders communicate with the primary router, create an extra network in your home, and provide WiFi in those dead spots, but reduce the overall speed to half.
In this way, you have two networks in your home, one being your regular network and the other one being your extended network, so when you move around the house, your cell phone or your device will latch on to your standard network for as long as it possibly can before switching over to the extended network which creates confusion amongst devices in the home. And this is where Mesh WiFi comes in.

Mesh WiFi

Mesh WiFi is like a big corporate network. If you go to a big business with huge office space, you can go anywhere in the building with only one network everywhere. It’s what you can now get into the home with a mesh network.
The nodes in mesh WiFi work together to create a dome of WiFi over your entire home with a single network name, outstanding speed and better performance for all your devices.
Now, there are different types of mesh. Some of them are dual-band, and some of them are tri-band. A tri-band network has an entire channel of communication among the devices. In contrast, the dual-band network has the same channels for you to connect, as are the back channels back to the router, which is a very incremental small thing, but it makes a difference in performance when it comes to mesh.

Does Mesh WiFi Replace Router?

Yes, a mesh router replaces your existing router, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have any need for your traditional router now. The mesh router needs to connect to your standard router’s modem through an Ethernet cable before it can start working.
Most mesh network systems have nodes that can connect wirelessly, but the premium version offers an optional wired connection called wired Ethernet backhaul. This feature provides a significant boost to a mesh network’s performance.

Is Mesh WiFi Better Than a Router?

In most situations, Mesh WiFi gives you better speed, upstanding, and wireless coverage of your house than a traditional standard router would.
But mesh routers aren’t any superior to traditional routers. Everyone has different kinds of home layouts and budgets.
The better one is the one that best suits your situation. Based on WiFi coverage performance, you can’t go wrong with a mesh router but every link or hop in a Mesh network between the routers will decrease the bandwidth to half.

Does Mesh Network Improve WiFi Speed?

No, it simply provides you with a limited amount of mobility, similar to cellular service. It allows multiple WiFi access points to be deployed on the same network using the same SSID.
While it can boost the speed in some cases, the purpose of Mesh WiFi isn’t to improve your WiFi speed. It is simply supposed to blanket your entire home with WiFi coverage.

Does Mesh WiFi Reduce Your WiFi Speed?

No, Mesh WiFi doesn’t reduce your WiFi speed. But if your mesh network consists of too many hops, it could reduce bandwidth to half and slow down your overall internet speed.
The Mesh system was only created to help you with better WiFi coverage.
You should keep in mind that neither mesh nor any range extenders are a magic fix that can help you improve your internet or WiFi speed; mesh was simply made so you can get WiFi in weak and dead spots of your house.
Mesh WiFi is a system that extends your WiFi range as well as the speed. As the name “Mesh WiFi” suggests, each and every part of your WiFi system works together to improve the overall speed and coverage of the internet.
Mesh WiFi is basically a group of routers that can be placed in various locations throughout your home, eliminating the dead and weak spots in your WiFi.
WiFi points in Mesh WiFi communicate with each other wirelessly to create a single, large WiFi network. These nodes wirelessly transmit data across each other to form a ‘mesh’ which basically allows you to walk around your home without having any connectivity problems.
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