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>No ethernet wiring or IT degree required. So... you buy 3 WAPs, one acts as a router, and I guess they all talk to each other via wifi bridging. At the right
by drzaiusapelord 12y ago
>No ethernet wiring or IT degree required.
So... you buy 3 WAPs, one acts as a router, and I guess they all talk to each other via wifi bridging. At the right pricepoint this must be attractive for those who just want something "that works" but if its too expensive, just using plain old wifi bridging will beat them out. Not sure how business will react to this as they typically have ethernet all over the place and don't need, or want, wireless bridging of access points.
I do wonder why no one has made a wifi device that does bridging over 5ghz but does 2.4ghz for clients. No client-side interference issues to worry about as the three WAPs communicate with each other, but at the cost of 5ghz for clients (which most clients dont support).
I think the larger issue here is why wifi gets so little spectrum from the FCC. It would be nice if we moved towards opening up some more spectrum for home wifi. Perhaps start working on making channel 2.4ghz 14 work, like they have in Japan. Shame the sweet 700mhz band was sold to the telecoms instead of given to the people for open access. So here we are with the status quo of "just add more access points" and hope to god all your neighbors don't do the same. As someone who has neighbors who already do this, it pisses me off there aren't any clear channels for me to use, so I'm always dealing with interference.
I think eero could really cause some problems as one apartment dweller could take up all three overlapping channels very quickly and now everyone else around her is suddenly getting half or less the speed they are used to. In the age of 50-100mbps internet to the home, suddenly being unable to get all of that via wireless-N sucks. I have 50mbps internet, and can barely crack 30mbps over wifi no matter what channel I use. Over wired ethernet, I get all 50mbps. Netstumbler shows me, amongst other WAPs, my neighbor has 3 AP's with the same SSID using all three non-overlapping channels, which is pretty much what eero is. So what now? Nothing, I just have to suck it up or hope that wifi AC fixes everything. I suspect AC won't make much of a difference if it doesn't have the available spectrum.
Also, anyone else impressed with the PR this thing is getting? Its on all my feeds/sites/etc. Someone is paying for quite a marketing campaign.