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Old 09-28-2025, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by jrref View Post

3) There is no way to get full speed wifi all over your home with a single device. Granted, if you have 100Mbs or 300Mbs, yes you can see that speed everywhere on a smaller home but you won't have that same result with 500Mbs or 1Gbs, or other faster speeds, especially with the upload speed. If you want full speed wifi all over your home you are going to have to need a mesh wifi or other equivalent system.
I get the full speed of my WiFi throughout my house using a single device. I didn’t consider 2000sqft to be small but…

500Mbps may need additional equipment because that speed requires the 5GHz band which has a shorter range than the 2.4 band.

What common applications require >300Mbps anyway?
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