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> Eero may have been first to mesh WiFi, but competition came fast. Multiple companies including Luma and NetGear launched similar products in the next year. H
by jonathanyc 8y ago
> Eero may have been first to mesh WiFi, but competition came fast. Multiple companies including Luma and NetGear launched similar products in the next year.
Huh? Meraki had a mesh WiFi product out at least five years before this. How am I supposed to trust the rest of the article if the author can’t do basic fact checking?
- wmf 8y agoIt's implied that this is in the context of the consumer market. Mashable has probably never heard of Meraki. (Although another explanation is that the tech press generally doesn't remember anything that happened more than a year ago.)
- maimeowmeow 8y agomeraki is subscription service, not a product that people own. Once your subscription is over, its a paperweight.
- jonathanyc 8y agoNo, I owned four Meraki mesh APs. This was before they got bought by Cisco.
- giobox 8y agoThis assumes we can even agree on the precise meaning of “mesh” given it isn’t a widespread technical standard. I typically can’t “mesh” Wifi products from different manufacturers that supposedly support “mesh”, for example. There are several wireless networking products that offered “mesh-like” features before Eero, often under names other than “mesh”, and many of them failed to package and market the benefit of the feature as well as Eero did. Eero deserve credit for popularising the concept with ordinary consumers, and now “mesh” is a marketing buzzword as well as a feature everyone wants in on. I’d argue mesh is still today really a “markitecture” concept more than anything else, with massive differences in implementation. Also, I’m happy to give the author the benefit of the doubt, given the context of the article is clearly consumer level networking gear.