expired Posted by jvin • Oct 8, 2021
Oct 8, 2021 10:18 PM
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expired Posted by jvin • Oct 8, 2021
Oct 8, 2021 10:18 PM
Costco Members: TP-Link Tri-Band 12-Stream AX11000 Wi-Fi 6 Router
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onemesh helps boosting coverage, but speed is much worse than dedicated mesh. you can't mix and match it with deco mesh.
This thing is huge, about the size of a mini chromebook. super thick. Antennas are fixed and can't be adjusted.
My house is 2k sqft, single floor, router is in the center of the house, coverage is sufficient.
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The 10.8Gbps is not for the wireless transfer, they confuse people by throwing words like stream in their marketing.
We have wireless devices that can reach miles, but the problem is that all the user devices have limited range. So no matter how powerful your router is, it's only as good as the weakest link.
WiFi 6 is not yet there, there aren't many devices that support it. Also, WiFi 6 has no real additional benefits over WiFi 5 in a home environment. The problem it solves is congestion which 99% of homes don't have.
The wireless speeds advertised are based on the 160 channel width, which is really unusable. You need to be within 5 feet of your router without any walls or obstacles in the way. The range is horrible and most people would just use 80 width which provides a good balance of speed and range.
Recommendations? Multiple access points are really the best way to go about it and strategically place your router in a good spot (center high). Any router or access point with 4x4 antenna and mu-mimo would be more than enough (assuming the software is also good).
My experience: I am using this paired with Archer C9 hard-wired to switch on 2-story ~1600sqft and this serves most of the areas. Got this from eBay 5 months back for around same price when TP-Link was running some offer.
Tried AX11000 alone in multiple locations and it would result in poor wifi reception in the far-most living areas and especially IoT devices were giving up the connection. After keeping AX11000 on one side of the building and Archer C9 on other side (both hardwired via powerline) helped fix the wireless coverage issue.
Overall there are 20+ various devices connected over wifi across two APs - most using 2.4GHz: Waze, Google Nest Doorbell, Google Home Max, 3-4 Google mini, few esp8266 switches, 3xLIFX bulbs, 3x-laptop,cellphone, ipad, kindle. nvidia shield, apple tv, netatmo home coach.
^ Devices excluding NAS, Pi, and Switch which are hardwired.
Overall no complaints, it's running flawlessly without any reboots. Don't expect it to cover all the edges of the house.
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Almost as bad as netgear.
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My ISP thinks there was a firmware issue, or some form of broken handshake between the modem and the router. That said, Costco was happy to allow me to return it.
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I would use the web ui over app but the app has better monitoring visuals; if your able to get an asus equivalent for this price it's great
Tplink has decent cpu and specs for the price for what other hardware would be for new
Range for my two mesh gives me about -75db in between them but that's on multi level with weird construction between
If people live in multi tier house i recommend the dedicated mesh so you don't have so many of these larger routers sticking out from your decor; and it's hard to dedicate space for just networking hardware when deco or eero has much smaller foot prints
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