Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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I rent a modem from Xfinity for $14 per month. It is a modem/router that handles over 600 mbps and also has a digital phone connection. I think that the break even point is about 2 years, if you buy a comparable modem. There are a lot of inexpensive modems that do not have that speed or a phone connection. My reasoning is that, if my system has an outage and I call Xfinity, suppose the person on the phone says that the problem is the modem? It could be or maybe not. But, if you own the modem, you have a problem because they will not restore your service until you can prove to them that the outage is not due to your modem. I don't want to be in that situation.
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Mesh, Smesh. Are you sure you need it? I have always been fine with a standard modem/router, even in a 3 level, 5 bedroom house in Virginia.
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A true mesh system will have a dedicated separate radio for backhaul. Backhaul is the return communication stream from the satellite routers to send data back. Most systems use a single radio, so they have to split the bandwidth in half to support backhaul, effectively reducing your end wifi speed by 50%. All extenders do this, and many systems that claim they are mesh. I have the Netgear Orbi Wifi 6 (AX) mesh system. It has a radio to handle your connection and a separate radio to handle backhaul. The end result is you will get wifi speeds very near to your hard wired speeds. The Asus AX-5400 is a Wifi 6 router. The only way to extend the range of this router is to use an extender (and we don't want to do that! Read above ![]() |
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An Asus AX-5400 supports AIMesh with other Asus routers. I've used this config and gamed on a satellite with no increase in latency.
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