WLAN-Reichweite verdoppeln: AVM Fritz!Repeater 1200 AX zum Bestpreis von 65 Euro

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.macwelt.de/article/3087904/avm-fritz-repeater-1200-ax-angebot-amazon.html

🆕Huawei pokazuje, że router nie musi być brzydki! WiFi Mesh X3 Pro już w Polsce
➡️https://rootblog.pl/huawei-wifi-mesh-x3-pro-oficjalnie-debiutuje-w-polsce/

#huawei #HuaweiWiFiMeshX3Pro #MeshWiFi #WiFi7

Still battling Wi-Fi dead zones with your ancient router? This Engadget article breaks down the best mesh Wi-Fi systems of 2025, explaining why Wi-Fi 6E is the sweet spot and why extenders are basically digital snake oil.

Time to upgrade your home network, or are you still relying on prayers and a strategically placed tin foil hat?

#MeshWiFi #WiFi6E #TechUpgrade #HomeNetwork #Networking
https://www.engadget.com/best-mesh-wifi-system-130028701.html?src=rss

Maybe you shouldn’t take WiFi advice from me

Sunday, I set up a new wireless router at home–the second time I’ve done that in less than two years. I am not proud of that fact, even if the most recent WiFi router cost us nothing and even knocked $5 a month off our broadband bill.

That cost savings–the product of a June 2024 Verizon Fios pricing revamp that I took embarrassingly long to capitalize on–would have been motivation enough to take that company up on its offer of a zero-cost WiFi 6E Verizon Router. But I was also tired of seeing wireless reception in my home office flicker in and out.

That was a problem I’d hoped to solve with my December 2023 purchase of a Synology WRX560 WiFi 6 router, which itself was an attempt to fix reception problems that had persisted after I’d bought an Asus RT-AX3000 in April of 2020. That, in turn, was a response to the pandemic overloading an older Asus router that I’d somehow kept in service since 2012.

But the bandwidth that makes its way to the Mac mini and other computers in my home workspace, about the farthest point in our small, old house from the router behind the living-room TV, remains a tiny fraction of our 300 Mbps fiber-optic connection. Even if the latest wireless link seems slightly less likely to glitch out during a Zoom call.

I tried dusting off the 2012-vintage Asus model that I’d somehow kept around to set it up as a wireless bridge that would pick up my WiFi with (presumably) better antennas than whatever Apple has tucked inside the Mac mini and then relay it to that computer via Ethernet. But that option, apparently unavailable on the Synology router, has only yielded a modest improvement… which means that everybody who has been telling me all along to set up a mesh WiFi network should go ahead and laugh at my unwillingness to take their advice.

In my defense, our house still seems too small to require a mesh network. But there must be enough plaster walls with enough metal inside them between downstairs and upstairs to bog down reception this badly.

While I research my options–inconveniently enough, Wirecutter and PCMag don’t recommend the same sets of mesh routers–I have appreciated the opportunity to inspect the WiFi experience Verizon provides for its customers.

Overall: not bad. The router could use a fourth Ethernet port, but the companion Verizon Home app does a lot to simplify network management by surfacing more detailed identifications of devices on the network than Synology’s DS router app could. Verizon’s app also requires fewer taps to rename those gadgets (but not change their icon), group them by room, and apply time limits.

And then the app clearly identifies problem performers by adding a red “Weak signal” label to devices with poor connectivity. One consistent example: this Mac.

#AsusRouter #Ethernet #Fios #FiosRouter #meshNetwork #meshWiFi #SynologyRouter #SynologyWRX560 #verizon #VerizonHomeApp #WiFi #WiFi #WiFi6 #WiFi6E #wirelessBridge

Anyone using TP-Link Deco Mesh Wifi routers?

I'm told they are all compatible, is this true?

#tplink #router #networking #wifi #meshwifi #electronics #technology #tech #askFedi #askMasto #askMastodon #ask #askFediverse #deco

While upgrading to a #Wifi7 #router and #multigig #LAN #networking, it's been a shock to me that wifi7 has a higher data rate than 2.5G #Ethernet!!

Mainly due to wider channels, but also because of #MLO #MultiLinkOperation, which can use 6Ghz and 5Ghz simultaneously!

I wonder if the 2.5G wired #backhaul on the #TPLink #mesh router I've got coming in the mail actually helps much if the nodes have good #signal or if I should have spring for one with 10G backhaul.

#homeNeworking #wifi #meshWifi

Looking for a #HardwareRecommendation for a #MeshWiFi system, ideally with a powerline backhaul (though maybe WiFi 6 makes that unnecessary?). My #OpenWRT router handles the main network stuff like fibre uplink. DHCP and DNS, so no need for that, but multiple VLAN support would be good so I can make a proper isolated IoT network as well as guest. Any recommendations?

I’ve got an aging Deco P9 system which has been ok, but more open and expert-friendly would be better!