This 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 diff

This 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.