Wi-Fi Alliance Simplifies Wi-Fi Naming Scheme With Upcoming 'Wi-Fi 6' Release

[MrJeffreyGee]

This headline made me think they were going to somehow start helping us naming our SSIDs.

 

[Hater]

I don't know anyone around me who even knows that there is more than one WiFi standard, to them WiFi is WiFi.

 

[thekeyring]

Much simpler and easier. Reminds me of when I last owned a Windows PC. An HP Pavilion dv6-3120sa. Catchy name!

Ever since I've become an Apple fan I've realised names don't have to be complicated.

 

[tooloud10]

All of mine are AC bought used on eBay. I don’t guess I will switch for a while but I keep reading people say mesh and so I ask the question. Would it be better for me in some way? I did almost go Ubiquiti before AirPort AC but decided to stick with what was working before.

I think that a lot of people are/were in need of simple and high-quality mesh networking technology, but that the marketing has been very good and it's getting applied to situations where it's not needed. In your situation or mine with wired access points around the house, I'm not sure I'd ever want to go to a true wireless mesh system--it would probably actually slow things down (even though I still have some N devices).

Almost all of the mesh equipment uses its own network bandwidth for the backhaul, so it ends up being vastly inferior to a setup with wired access points.
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I use a Linksys Velop system at home that replaced my two Airport Extremes. With my airport network, my phone would hold onto the connection to the one I first connected to, despite standing 10 feet from the other one. With mesh, at least it appears to jump from one to the next fairly quickly.

The Velop mesh units each have two Ethernet ports on them and I have them hard wired into my switch. They can either run with a wired, or wireless backhaul.

Thanks, that's very good to know. I don't want anything with a wireless backhaul and that seems to be all that I was finding. Some day I will need to retire my Airport N devices, but all they're there for is for phones/tablets to connect to in my house so they don't really need to be that fast.