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Originally Posted by rsmurano
Just because you have a Gig internet connection, that means nothing to your internal lan. No ISP knows how to setup an internal lan, they put 1 router somewhere in your house and leave. So much more to it. 1 router won’t cut it, I have 4 mesh routers inside my house and 1 router in my garage, most wired and a couple using the proprietary 2.5G backhaul to communicate between routers. I can go anywhere in and outside of my house and get over 800Mb on wifi.
Don’t fall for the cheap/worthless wap’s, or extenders that plug into an electrical outlet, they don’t work. Do it right, spend a few bucks and you won’t have to worry about it for a long time.
If you get a mesh network, get at a minimum the 6e or 7, don’t get anything older.
Also, you know how to tell when your isp or network guy doesn’t know what they are doing? How many ssid’s (wifi names) do you have? If it’s more than 1, you hired the wrong people to touch your network. I’ve had the same ssid for decades and will have it for the foreseeable future.
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Technically you are right but very few here in the Villages will spend the money to set up an internal network like that because all they care about is, are they getting reasonable wifi speed where they need it in their house. The ISP solutions do just that when they are installed properly.
Except for one person, the only Villager's whom I've seen set up a network like that are people in Premier or higher-end homes where they tend to have the funds to hire a professional to install such a system. I'm sure there are may individuals who will go out and install an Orbi or TP link or Ubiquity solution but I'll bet it's a minority.
As far as bandwidth is concerned and I'm sure you know this, if you have fiber you have the full bandwidth available to you both upload and download, unlike cable. But as you said, unless you have a well layed out internal network, you won't be getting full speed everywhere in your home via wifi and most here don't need or care about that.
I recently had a Villager call me. She had Quantum fiber a couple of years ago and could never get it to work properly so she went back to cable. She called me because her cable bill was out of control and needed help. I signed her up, wired up the rj45 jack in the kitchen and in her office, got the Quantum tech to install the Wifi7 device over the kitchen cabinets and she has good wifi coverage all over her house and lanai, problem solved. Price locked in at $50/month, no taxes, no fees, done.