I live in a 3-story condo and I have multiple Ethernet-only devices on each level of my home that require WiFi access. Re-wiring for in-home Ethernet is not an option.
I own an ASUS RT-AC5300 as my primary router (on 2nd floor where the single fiber Internet connection is) and have two RT-86U units set up as media bridges, one on each of the other floors.
I tried AiMesh for almost a year. It is slow and extremely unreliable. (Client devices connected to mesh nodes kept losing internet access.) *
In my current configuration (1 router, 2 media bridges), any device connected to the media bridge eventually loses its internet connection, and rebooting the media bridge and/or router is the only thing that will fix it.
Are there any RELIABLE devices/ecosystems that will allow me to deliver WiFi to my many Ethernet-only devices? I don't care about cost if it works.
* A while back I actually worked for two years on a competing mesh networking technology that never made it to market, funny enough. It is extremely difficult work. Even though our own mesh technology sucked, we were comforted by the fact that all our competitors' products also sucked (either incompatible, unreliable, slow, short-ranged, or some combination of the four). Asus made the best of the competing products, which is why I use them now. But they still suck and now that I'm in the market for such a thing because I'm working from home and I NEED CONNECTIVITY to put food on the table I'm really disappointed that I haven't found a good solution.
I own an ASUS RT-AC5300 as my primary router (on 2nd floor where the single fiber Internet connection is) and have two RT-86U units set up as media bridges, one on each of the other floors.
I tried AiMesh for almost a year. It is slow and extremely unreliable. (Client devices connected to mesh nodes kept losing internet access.) *
In my current configuration (1 router, 2 media bridges), any device connected to the media bridge eventually loses its internet connection, and rebooting the media bridge and/or router is the only thing that will fix it.
Are there any RELIABLE devices/ecosystems that will allow me to deliver WiFi to my many Ethernet-only devices? I don't care about cost if it works.
* A while back I actually worked for two years on a competing mesh networking technology that never made it to market, funny enough. It is extremely difficult work. Even though our own mesh technology sucked, we were comforted by the fact that all our competitors' products also sucked (either incompatible, unreliable, slow, short-ranged, or some combination of the four). Asus made the best of the competing products, which is why I use them now. But they still suck and now that I'm in the market for such a thing because I'm working from home and I NEED CONNECTIVITY to put food on the table I'm really disappointed that I haven't found a good solution.