What is mesh Wi-Fi ?

mesh Wi-Fi

 What is mesh Wi-Fi? Now a lot of us use wireless internet in   our homes. And the reason we use wireless  internet is because we want the freedom of   accessing the internet from anywhere in our  home. Whether it's in the kitchen, bedroom,  or living room, Wi-Fi gives us the ability and  freedom to do just that from all of our devices.  However sometimes the Wi-Fi signal can be a little  spotty. For example there might be areas in your  home where the Wi-Fi signal is weak or it may  be totally dead. Therefore you're going to have  slow internet speeds or you may not even have  internet access at all, and this creates a lot  of frustration. Now this could be caused for  several reasons. For example it could be the  construction of the building that's interfering  with the signal or it could be the placement of   the Wi-Fi router in the home. For example if the  Wi-Fi router is down here in the living room,  you might have a weak signal or no signal up here  in the bedroom because the further you get from  the Wi-Fi router, the weaker this signal will be.  So to remedy this problem a lot of times people  would buy a Wi-Fi extender to extend the Wi-Fi  signal. Now even though Wi-Fi extenders do work,  the problem is that Wi-Fi extenders create their  own Wi-Fi network with their own separate SSID. you would have to connect to the Wi-Fi router or  the Wi-Fi extender's network, depending on where  you are in the home. So if you're closer to the  router, then you would connect to the router. Or if you're closer to the extender, then you would  connect to the extender. So this can be a little extra work. Or another solution could be is to  place the Wi-Fi router to a different location in the home. But this can also be an issue if  the modem has to be in a certain place in your 

mesh Wi-Fi

home because of cabling issues. But even if you  were to place the Wi-Fi router to a better spot,  the signal still may not be strong enough to cover  the entire home. But there is a better solution  for this and this is by using a mesh Wi-Fi system.  Mesh Wi-Fi is the latest technology to solve the issue of weak or dead spot issues with Wi-Fi. A  mesh Wi-Fi system is a group of routers or Wi-Fi  points that are placed in different locations  inside a home and it provides a blanket of Wi-Fi coverage all throughout the home. So it does a  pretty good job of eliminating weak Wi-Fi signals or dead spots in the home. A great feature of mesh  Wi-Fi systems is that the Wi-Fi points communicate  with each other wirelessly to create one large  Wi-Fi network. So there's no cables involved when  the Wi-Fi points are communicating with each  other, which makes the placement of the Wi-Fi  points that much easier. So for example if you  wanted to set up a mesh Wi-Fi system in your home, normally you would have a modem that brings the  internet into your home and then you would attach  one of the mesh Wi-Fi points to the modem using  an ethernet cable. And then you would place the  other Wi-Fi points in different locations all  throughout your home. Then once this is done,  the Wi-Fi points will all talk to each other to  create a seamless internet connection that covers  your entire home for all your wireless devices  to connect to. Now this system creates one large  Wi-Fi network. So it's not like each Wi-Fi point  is creating their own Wi-Fi network with its own  SSID like an extender would. It's all one network  with a single SSID. So if you have a wireless  laptop that's connected to your mesh Wi-Fi, you  can move from room to room seamlessly because  as you move to different areas in your home,  your laptop will always connect to the nearest  Wi-Fi point. It will seamlessly disconnect  from a Wi-Fi point and then reconnect to  another one. So it eliminates any hassle of you  manually connecting to different Wi-Fi points.