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What model of WiFi mesh routers did you use? Where did you place them (distance from floor, proximity to metal objects)?
by rahimnathwani 5y ago
What model of WiFi mesh routers did you use? Where did you place them (distance from floor, proximity to metal objects)?
- thrashh 5y agoI think it was Orbi. It was table level. (Now my APs are near the ceiling though.) Wireless traffic is super dense here. A lot of people are running multiple APs and I guess we’re no better. Some people are also stacking multiple APs on the middle channels.
- rahimnathwani 5y agoThe only Orbi I've used is the tri-band RBK50 2-pack. The hardware is good, but there's one annoying thing: you can't manually set the channel bandwidth to to 20MHz. This would improve signal strength and range, at the expense of bandwidth. The 'coexist' setting is meant to switch to 20MHz when needed but, from what I've read, the setting isn't very effective. If I lived in a place with a lot of wifi APs, I'd do what you did (string cables) or else use an Asus mesh wifi setup, which allows more fine-grained control of wifi settings.