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Noob Question: what’s mesh compared to a router bridge? (alien.top)

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What makes mesh systems better than having a router bridge or extenter?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I've never even heard the term 'router bridge' before. A wifi extender is terrible because (generally) it halves the amount of bandwidth available aka the speed.

The only thing 'mesh' systems do that outside of a properly designed network will not happen is that a device will seamlessly hop from AP to AP. This is critical in most business/enterprise environments, but in a home you can just name the different APs different names and manually choose the right one because otherwise you're generally paying 2x to 4x as much for the convenience of it automatically hopping around as well as for the limitations that most mesh systems have in relation to normal router/ap features due to their target market to be basically consumers that want to throw money at a problem vs correct the problem (aka give me a pill to fix it because I won't exercise).