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Originally Posted by rsmurano
Jrref - it’s not that much money. I think I got my buddy a 5 pack of the latest mesh network routers for around $300. I used a 5 year old router in my garage to extend my wifi into the garage.
If you use just wifi to connect all your TVs, ecobee thermostats, and pretty much all your home devices, you are using the 2.4ghz band which has terrible speeds and latencies. 1 of the reasons I use this many routers is because I come out of the router rj45 ports into my TVs/dvd/streamers and all these devices are using 1G speeds, not the slow 2.4gjz band, huge difference in speed and latency. The other reason I use so many routers is I have fully automated my house and control it from anywhere in the world. I stream music to all my home stereos plus I stream to all my cars anywhere in the country. Plus, outside cameras require so much bandwidth to work right.
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I agree, just relaying what I tend to see here in the Villages. Very few want to spend any money. All they want is Quantum to come in, install the system and start using it. Many have no technical knowledge and have no one to call. This is where I come in. So far, I've not signed-up a home where the Quantum fiber wifi7 device didn't work but again typically I see close to full speed in about 50% of the home and the rest enough speed to stream or use their tablets, etc..
In my house, I have an Orbi 980, 3 node system with wired backhaul on one node, every RJ45 jack is wired back to the low voltage cabinet and to my main Orbi router eventhough I'm only using one line to my office and I get almost 100% speed to over 80% of my house. Way more than enough for what I'm actually using eventhough my wife and I are computer geeks. Using an internal speed test server I'm able to get almost 8GBs wired and 5Gbs wireless max speeds with this system. Never going to use that much bandwidth but I wanted to know what the system was capabile of.