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Originally Posted by rsmurano
I know dozens of people that don’t know what the router is and sure didn’t know how to change the configuration. I’m going to say 99% of users don’t. Ask the homeowner what ghz network does the ecobee or nest use? Or MyQ, Meross, camp chef grills, almost all other devices in your home. Most people don’t know and don’t care. They go with what the isp installer says the router has as the default and they have to look at the bottom of the router to get the password.
I have friends (and myself) that didn’t have enough signal for outdoor cameras, or myQ or the smart irrigation controllers that I’ve had for many years. We needed to put a 5th mesh router in my buddies garage to get his outdoor cameras to work. My whole house is automated, and my outdoor grill needs wifi outside of the lanai. My buddy couldn’t get a signal for his outdoor tv or a reliable signal without pixelation or delays until I built his network.
200Mb is very slow, I get over 800Mb in my bedroom closet or outside in my birdcage.
Most people don’t know that when they connect to the internet, you are dealing with 2 different networks: WAN and a LAN. Saying you have 200Mb is snail mail for a LAN, it should be close to 1G if you do it right. The wan part of it gets measured by connecting a device to the routers port (not wifi) to determine if they are getting the speed you are paying for. So for somebody telling me they are getting 200Mb, I’m guessing it’s a wan test and if you are paying for 500Mb or say 1Gb speeds, your speeds are terrible.
Like I said, most people don’t know how to implement a network
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As someone else wrote, you seem to have some specific needs that 99% of us do not.
When I write that I have 286Mbps, that is usable speed not marketing speed. Did you somehow think I grabbed a very long network cable that would reach into the garage? No! That is speed I measured using wifi while standing as far away from my router as I could get. That is being limited somewhere and it's likely on the WAN side but it's more than I need and more than I paid for so I have no complaints.
200Mbps is very slow compared to what, the bandwidth I need, the bandwidth that is available, or what the Jones' have next door? A 1Gbps fiber WAN or 800Mbps in the bedroom is great to brag about but if a user is only using 40Mbps to stream to a TV then 960Mbps of that WAN is going entirely unused. I can brag that my Maserati does 185 but that only means I am paying for and maintaining a lot more car than I will ever use.
If you care about what ghz network your ecobee or nest or MyQ or Meross or camp chef grill or irrigation controller uses then either you have specific needs that most of us don't have or you're doing it wrong. I don't know and don't care whether my devices are using the 2.4GHz or 5GhHz bands because I know my router supports both. If I choose to turn one band off or use different SSIDs or passwords then shame on me for fixing something that wasn't broken and causing a problem.
Many of us will do just fine with 200Mbps and the single modem/router provided at installation. Some of us will need more hardware to recover signal loss going through the house or out to the yard (I'm fortunate that I don't). But few of us will need (or want) five mesh nodes to have a perfectly usable in-home network.