Sounds pretty decent actually.
Something I was wondering, within the app does it show the current link speed with each device? I've always loved this feature with the AirPorts and not many other routers have this.
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Something I was wondering, within the app does it show the current link speed with each device? I've always loved this feature with the AirPorts and not many other routers have this.
Yes. It tells you: access point, band, Rx and tx bitrate, Mimo status, etc. You can group devices into groups (e..g by family member) and “pause” them. You can also set up timed guest networks, which is a nice improvement over airport. I currently have 45 wireless and 6 wired clients, and its all running smoothly. (Thermostats, ring cameras, kindles - it all adds up!
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This is awesome!Yes. It tells you: access point, band, Rx and tx bitrate, Mimo status, etc. You can group devices into groups (e..g by family member) and “pause” them. You can also set up timed guest networks, which is a nice improvement over airport. I currently have 45 wireless and 6 wired clients, and its all running smoothly. (Thermostats, ring cameras, kindles - it all adds up!
Thanks for that I will definitely have another look at these, checking current stats is my top priority and I haven't found something else that could come close to the AirPorts.Netgear is junk.
My only advice is to avoid the kits. When you get the kits, the remote extenders are locked to the base unit. If you ever want a more complicated set up, this can cause problems. In my case I just bought individual cubes and used some of the cubes to wirelessly extend the network, and some to extend with wired backhaul. In some cases there are two hops to the cube directly connected to the cable modem. If I had bought the kits, it would be more difficult because some extenders could only connect directly to some cubes.This is awesome!
Netgear is junk.
Lol... I'm a dumb ass, still too early for me I guess. I glanced over the article reading it as APPLE bought Eero. I'm like, sweet my dreams of an Apple TV/Mesh wifi combo system may actually happen. I started reading the comments, everyone's like Amazon this and Amazon that. Alexa steals my information. I'm saying to my self "Jesus dumb asses read the ****ing article. Christ you people are dumb today."
I did the Unifi line (USG + [2] NanoHD) - mainly because I'm an engineer and like to toggle switches and knobs. They are a little more work to get set up than a homeowner may have patience for. The performance has been great and worth the effort if you like to tinker.
My dad went with the Amplifi line and he has been happy as well. Better coverage and performance than he had with the Airports and very minimal effort to set up.
I skipped Eero because although they were a contender, I was leery of the company's staying power and the subscription push was telling me they needed cash. I am of the school that networking gear should be 100% mine, not cloud managed, not phoning home, and not require subscriptions for optimal performance. Not to mention they cost more than the Ubiquiti stuff did (at the time).
I did dabble with Google WiFi for a bit and if you can get past sweating about Google, it was a very easy and simple system to use.
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Yikes! There's no way I'm going to just want to connect all my devices directly to some telco.
Except that instead of a big tower miles away (unless you're unlucky enough to live under it), there will have to be a unit like every 100ft or something? It might be lower power, but lots closer. Hopefully the power will be lower at the device level, but it's also a different (higher) frequency, I think.
One of my concerns is the way this is being rail-roaded into place. They probably want to pull an 'Uber' (push it in, ask for forgiveness later) before proper studies of health impacts can be done or other factors. The telcos have been going to city councils and 'donating' money in exchange for that council to push 5G through. Reporters who write negative articles about it have lost jobs. Something smells fishy here.
I think I might have to go find an AirPort Extreme. I know they are older, but they have 'ac' so it should be good for a while. The other option is to buy a WiFi router known to work well with Tomato or one of the open-source projects. While there is a good bit of complexity to setup and way, way too much to tweak, the somewhat default setups work well. I ran one of those up until our last move... but I don't really like running off the telco's WiFi/router unit.
They already had a very successful wireless router. I don't think it would be that difficult for them to restart production and morph it into mesh. They are selling Linksys routers on their site, but that doesn't mean they won't switch back to making their own. They still sell the Lenovo displays also, but appear to be going back to making their own displays again. We can only hope they will see this and decide to get back into building their own networking gear.
no we all dont want them.. they werent magical but expensive and quite neclected products - too long delay updating the firmware and security holes, if batched at all.
So not only has Google jumped into the WiFi router market, but now amazon has too? Meanwhile, Tim Cook allows the Apple Airport line of WiFi routers to not receive any refreshes since 2013 and eventually get completely cancelled. Nice one, Mr Cook! Let’s hear it for the CEO of the world’s most valuable company who’s preoccupied with politics and social activism!
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When it came time to replace my airport system I was intrigued by Eero. It seemed similar to Apple in spirit. But ultimately I too went with Velop for three reasons. 1) The speed. I have a Fios Gigabit connection and Eero was not up to that... Velop is. 2) The configurability. Verizon routers can be picky, Velop plays well with them. 3) The UI. Eero's might have been better, but Velops was good enough and gave me access to a lot of parameters Eero did not.
Oh, and yeah, the speed. My network screams, and the WIFI coverage in my house is great. Huge improvement over what I had with the airport alone (admittedly not optimized)
I might just be a matter of motivations. Amazon and Google have a really good reason to get into the router market... what better place to tap into the rich information? Will we see a Facebook router soon, too?
Apple doesn't make their money that way, so there is much less incentive. BUT... maybe with enough public pressure around privacy, Apple might decide they can play off that marketing angle.
This could have been Apple. They were in a position to really take over the home years ago but they blew it by dropping their router business and treating the Apple TV like a hobby.
Other companies saw the potential and filled the gap.
Yeah, they are late to the game (or absent) on several things, because they seem to have been able to only focus on one product. Well, and where they focused on other things, it was silly stuff like fashion, pop-culture, TV shows, AI cars, etc.
At least they are starting to come back on the Mac again, so hopefully someone has some common sense there and will get them back on track in other areas too. Yes, Apple TV and HomeKit are great examples of areas where they could be much further along than they are.
Ah But that brings up the same issue that’s plagued past networks: coverage. Once you get into suburbs and rural areas, there’ll be virtually no 5G.
Its almost like the two things have nothing to do with one another.
Right.. and on top of this, you have to separate the utopian technology from the carriers that will be looking to boost their bottom lines. They aren't going to embrace a new tech and suddenly give everyone unlimited data at ridiculous speeds for a great price.
Adding to this: Siri sucks and was left in the dust by Alexa and Google. Home Kit is too locked down to be useful. Privacy comes with this cost of not being as good, some people are ok with that and embrace that trade off.
Well, what they have in common, is that they aren't the iPhone. (Or, AI cars, or pop TV shows, or one of the many other 'shot in the dark' attempts at Apple's future.)
There is a bit of truth to the idea that w/o compromising privacy more, Apple gets less context for certain kinds of requests. But, that has little to do with how bad Siri is. Most of the types of things Siri can't do don't need such data, yet they still fail.
Look at it this way... have you ever tried to search for a podcast or app? If Apple can't get basic mid-'90 level search engine capability right, they sure can't get more advanced machine learning and sophisticated parsing, etc. kind of stuff right.
Keep on dreaming pal. Only geeks are adopting ‘smart home’ garbage.Only when new homes or hotels come with HomeKit ,then it will matter. Not before that. The Beats purchase has been a great buy from Apple. It actually makes money. Plus allowing Apple to make W1 chips available at wider scale. So, just keep on dreaming about useless ‘home automation’ . Apple is just doing fine with Beats.
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No. Apples business philosophy is not the same as Goolag & Amazon. Amazon & Goolag mainly want your data, at any cost. Even selling $20 WiFi garbage mics. Same goes for useless home automation. This is a geeks world. It will only matter when homes & hotels come prebuilt with HomeKit.