Mesh WiFi versus WiFi Extenders: What's the best fit for your budget?

My Eufy C120 camera needs a strong Wifi-connection to set up in my second house. I want to use it to record to SD-card. In my first house, I have a Telenet internet subscription. Therefore, I can use the internet anywhere through Telenet Wifree. This uses the neighbors' Wi-Fi channel to log in to my subscription. Now, I don't have a strong enough Wi-Fi signal. Can a Wi-Fi extender strengthen the signal for me? After all, I don't want to purchase a second subscription in my second house.

I have Hughesnet 2000 router and too many devices connected directly to it, many that I dont use unless I am away from home. Can I move these temporary devices to a second router connected to my Hughesnet router?

Can you use mesh on and existing router ?

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mesh systems are getting pretty affordable if you don't want 6Ghz, which 99% of users aren't even gonna notice any difference from.

Here in the UK - I used a BT wifi extender to get a signal in my studio ... 30 metres down the garden. (this uses the electricity cables to channel the signal)
Worked okayish but now seems to have collapsed altogether (think it maybe a hardware fault)
The rest of the house seems to work pretty well with the ISPs router, it's just my studio that's the problem.
I know running an ethernet cable would solve the problem but it's not a practical solution.
Should I be looking at a new Wifi Extender or Mesh given that the studio is the only really dead spot ?

Any advice on how to help my
Network if I have a spectrum modem and spectrum wifi router?

I had a range extender which added ,EXT to my WiFi name which was a pain to reconnect if j walked from one place to another whilst working on a website so I changed to a MESH system and it's fantastic

Best explanation I have heard yet!! Great job tech carry on, thank you, keep it coming!! 💪🏾💪🏾💯🙏🏾🙏🏾

Do Mesh devices connect directly to a PC ???

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The best solution I have found are mesh wifi systems that have a wireed backbone option.
The issue is that is that wireless networks operate on a hub topology. The more devices sharing the network, the slower the connectivity between each device. Mesh networks also have to be in range of another, and the extended network is only as good as the link to the main router. A wired backbone where the access points are connected to a switch can have a gigabit of bandwidth to each access point.

I did use WiFi extenders at first, but the coverage wasn't that great. Then I switched to a mesh system, and it worked so much better.

I live in a rural area, so have a portable wifi system like a dongle, but better. I putting a tiny house on my property about 15metres from main house. What’s best, so whoever Uses the Tiny house, will get a good wifi connection, without affecting my wifi speeds in the main house?

Thanks for the advice... I have since heard other horror stories about Motorola Mesh. Lesson learned

I have the eero 6 pro mesh with a router and two additional hubs. It's a 1gb connection. I get 600/700mb average in the living room with the router wirelessly, but I only get 150 to 250 (hub area) I'm the bedroom and around 150 upstairs (hub area in hallway). Honestly, was expecting a little better from my first ever mesh system

I'm thinking I should probably go with a mesh system, but I'm not sure what's up with my netgear (r6200) because I've go dead spots in my yard that are only 20' from the router..

Switched to mesh from access points... using Motorola 4 Model MH7021's. Performance has been TERRIBLE! WE have been having to reboot the mesh access points 2-3 times a day due to lost signal. We have a 2 story at about 3200 ft2 and a mechanics shop 150 feet away. Can't get any signal to the shop at all and the fam is about to shoot me for causing their devices to drop WiFi so often after going to mesh. Does the Motorola MH7021 just suck this bad? Do I need to go back to access points?

Thanks for the info

In my understanding with the mesh is the nodes do not piggyback? The 2 child nodes only recieve a signal from the parent node they don't communicate between themselves?

I've Mi Wi-Fi Amplifier Pro, it has something named as roaming in settings if turned on it broadcasts same SSID and password, I'm wondering if it is using mesh technology in that roaming mode?
OR it's just setting it's SSID and password same as main router but not optimising the device connection?

HI! I have a strange situation and I don't know if a mesh system will help me. We have a cottage that actually consists of two small cottages that sit side-by-side. The total living area of both cottages combined is probably about 1000 sq ft (say, 110 sqm). The wifi router is in the main cottage. We have an extender to the other cottage. Someone told me that I *CANNOT* use a mesh system because these to cottages DO NOT share a single electricity source. Each cottage is wired separately. But this does not make sense to me. If the separate units just need electricity and then are connected to each other via wifi, what do they care where the electricity comes from? Can you please tell me if this will work? Please and thanks

I have a ? I’m hoping u could help me with. I use the Verizon jet pack for my Wi-Fi cuz in my area we have very limited companies that provide good internet service. And the jet pack is not the best but it’s what I have until I can find something better. Anyway, I live in a 2 story house n I always have to relocate the jet pack from upstairs to downstairs if I need it one place or the other n I would really like to just keep it upstairs and I’m wondering if there’s something I could use to extend my Wi-Fi because I can’t use Ethernet cuz there is no plug in..in the back of jet pack for that. Would I just use a Wi-Fi extender? Could u suggest one that’s not real expensive. Thank u so much for ur help

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dont know why but putting on same ssid causes issues for phone with getting ip. Also smart devices dont like connecting to it

My question this: Do manufacturers deliberately keep these routers low powered to lower our expectations so they can sell us more units? And to prevent sharing? Sure seems that way.

mesh system is outright a clear winner

My house is small so we only use 1 router for the whole house and it works the same lol

I live out of town and the only internet I can get is using the ATT WiFi hot spot. I can usually get 75 on this for just the cost of the device renta, about $24 per month, as apposed to the long distance Windstream that I could get up to 12... but I never saw that and it was usually around 5 but often below 1...... So I have a 3800 sq ft, three level home. The signal has been a bit off lately. Three smart TVs, 4 iPhones, three macbook pros and a ipad pro plus two chromebooks. To increase the signal I installed a google mesh to the port on the ATT WiFi device/hotspot. Top floor is where the host is, the middle floor in the master bedroom and the basement apartment, in the common area. Still having problems...any suggestions?

After I connected the mesh, things got even worse. I ended up having to switch back to just router and modem.

In our country house, In Portugal, a few years ago I found out that renaming the satellites to one name solved most of my wifi issues. In effect used powerline as ad hoc solutions, ie outside for the hammock area. Also for connection to a non-lan area that feeds a Ubiquiti beamer that allows me to share fiber networking to a neighbor over 300m. In addition, for the guest room I used an access point. we’re about to move to another area to a house that might allow me to cover the whole house with one powerful router. A router that takes over the duties of the Isp’s router, that doesn’t allow me to use Cloudflare dns and that doesn’t do 2,4G well. For remaining deadspots I can use powerline and the access point.

I got a extender for my weak spot on the second floor of my house and have saw no improvement to Wi-Fi speed

I couldn't get my mesh system to work. I was so confused cause I have hooked up extenders and boosters

So mesh network also halfs the wifi bandwidth then? As the satellites also need to communicate back to the main router

If I already have ethernet cables throughout my home and it's connected to my modem, will connecting it to my Extender basically turn it to a Mesh Network? Or at least make it closer to a Mesh Network?

You may wish to do a segment on WiFi Mesh Extenders. One more option to be considered.

Really appreciate the explanation in this vid 👏🏼 👏🏼

I have connected a 2nd router using a LAN cable sharing the high-speed plan with my neighbour.

Greetings, Excellent video. Can you provide me with a few recommendations? I live in NC, Spectrum is the cable/WiFi company, they supplied the router with a max speed of 200 mbps. Currently I have a WiFi extender and the signal is starting to weaken upstairs, no issues downstairs. The WiFi speed is cut in half upstairs and the extender is on a different SSID network,. Often when walking upstairs I have to connect to that extender to get the best signal and the opposite when down stairs at which point I connect to the Spectrum WiFi. What mesh WiFi system you recommend that will not require replacing the router but comes with hub and two mesh extenders? Thank you! Spencer

Planning wifi network for my new home.
Just bought the modem... Was thinking of extender when I got the the knowledge of Mesh network.

Which mesh networks would you recommend.

Thank you. 👍

Just switched to mesh (Eero 6; 30% off deal) with two extenders and I already notice a big difference in my DSL wifi uploads & downloads, as well as TV apps (Hulu, Netflix, Prime/HBO). Only downside was having to get all devices to identify the "new" wifi even though it was the same name as the old one with the same password. Getting my Sonos sound bar to recognize it is frustrating me. Need to do the same with our Ring app. Still, mesh seems sooooooo much quicker, so far. Plus Eero's customer support, on a Sunday afternoon no less, was AWESOME!!

I switched to Mesh last year ditching my wifi extender, best quality of life upgrade to date lol

home's not that big two use either of them one router is enough for me 😁🤣

Can you do a comparison between a regular mesh network vs a thread mesh network?

Now I have an option to get my house internet all over, thank you for this. I'm not too smart on setting it up but this helps

Thank u so much for explaining 2 a newbie