It may be just as good without mesh, depending on the building. I have one central modern AP in the house connected by POE, and a cheap AP (also ethernet, as the servers are there too but old, 2.4GHz only) in a workshop separated by a four foot thick stone wall. Wifi signals are rarely detected on the "wrong" side of the wall and only I work in the workshop, so an inevitable reconnection as I go from one to the other is no problem. I just use different SSIDs.
Cool. I was thinking that most of it would just be firmware.
Handy (for us geeks anyway). ;-)
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Ok.
Cool.
I don't think so, sandboxed etc.
Ok. I don't really like that last option as with some NAS's etc (Netgear?). I guess it could be useful for some.
So in my mates case, the datapath would be a string, lounge > kitchen (/ bedroom) > media room > au-pairs room?
Doesn't sound like the throughput / latency would be good, especially for a device connected to the device on the end of such a chain?
Cheers, T i m
I use ConnectWise, that can view any android device, and remote control Samsung devices, and can't do anything with iOS! (although OSX and Linux are fine)
Mesh devices are usually mimo, so can maintain multiple concurrent conversations - often with more than one radio so you don't necessarily get the performance hit that you get with wireless extenders.
You will probably find the devices will find more than just the one connection though - depending on where you install them.
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