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Homes need to be built for better internet (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed. We requested 2 ceiling drops when building our house (the basement mesh AP is in the network closet on its base). Used PoE to power the 2 mesh APs. Works great for full coverage.

Addendum: Of course, our network box is plastic so it’s wireless transparent. Of If I had to do it again I’d cut the cost of the network box and just use pegboard. Can shut the damn thing anyway with how it’s set up. I’ve got way too many devices to cram in there. Oh well, hindsight and all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If they're wired back to a switch, they're not "mesh" APs. Having a wireless AP-to-AP backhaul connection is what "mesh" is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Being pedantic are we?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hell yeah!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ok, I can play along. Just because they’re not being used in a mesh doesn’t mean they aren’t still mesh APs (because they are). It’s just on the ones I have, I prefer the stability of wired over the speed of the tri-band wireless backhaul. I’m not saturating wired at the speeds I’m using anyway (500/500) with a lot of streaming to different devices.