Schimi1983
2020-01-29 21:01:47
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Wrong highlight?
But thanks for that, I’ll add right away that Mesh does not affect the bandwidth at all. That’s the whole point. What an access point does via cable, Mesh does over its own dedicated wireless network, so the "actual" Wi-Fi remains undisturbed. This eliminates the disadvantage of a repeater.
but only with the repeaters that have an "extra channel" for that....
for example, the 1750e from AVM does not.... they "optimize" a bit so that if your device, for example, uses up the 2.4 GHz network, the repeater communicates with the box over 5 GHz... or vice versa....
You are right in the sense that the "new" devices cheat there and thus the bandwidth is effectively not halved..... which would be the case with "real" repeater operation (2.4 GHz is repeated by a 2.4 GHz-only repeater, for example)
Mesh has nothing directly to do with that.... for example (to stay with the 1750e), it could do so-called crossband repeating long before Mesh was "invented".... Still, it is not optimal.
The best (for Wi-Fi devices) remains ..... access point (whether special or repeater in access point mode, it doesn’t matter) connected via LAN....