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). My home has poured concrete walls that significantly impact wifi range. I use a mesh system so that I get full speeds from end to end in my home as well as outside on my patio. |
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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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