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so Wi-Fi pretty much sucks the big one especially if you're trying to get coverage in a large house with a traditional single router slash access point set up and that is exactly why we are here at James's in-laws house today because James stays here in the guest room from time to time and it's upstairs where the Wi-Fi reception just plain bites so a sous sponsored this video where we're gonna show you there a imesh system where you can take any one of a bunch of different routers in a sis's lineup and create your own Wi-Fi mesh for excellent coverage across a very large Dobis aisle I've just been looking for an excuse to use the word domicile I'm glad it presented itself so one of the biggest problems with the network setup here is that when James is in law's got Internet service 17 years ago the assumption was that only the kids were gonna use it and they would never give a rat's patoot about that their newfangled Internet there and of course we all know how that worked out everybody uses the internet now so the only place in the house that has coax and the ethernet cables that they actually ran themselves using the same technique that I did like up the side of the house to the study and then to one of the upstairs bedrooms is here in the basement where the kids were living all those years ago so as you can imagine this here yes combo modem router switch access point thing provided by the ISP just isn't gonna cut it okay so to show one of the most problematic locations I'm just gonna jump into bed with James here this is a pretty realistic scenario we're both gonna fire up a video to watch on our computers and/or phones okay so on James's phone he's actually getting 1080p video but that's on 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi then on your laptop what do you got nada and on my laptop I'm watching this strange parts video on 5 gigahertz at a magnificent 360 P resolution now that seems like it's kind of working well enough you can have two devices running up here and 2.4 gigahertz does have better range but consider this there are many many neighbors out this window here all of whom are not at home right now because it's whatever time it is I don't have my watch on today if they were 2.4 gigahertz would have too much interference and they've experienced this in order to work reliably up here and 5 gigahertz total mess from this distance okay so here at location number 2 the hot tub my laptop is connected to 5 gigahertz and can stream Netflix if you can call this pixelated mess guardians of the galaxy - I'm not sure that I would but James's laptop also on 5g either can't see it at all or when it can see it can't connect to it now you might go ok well why don't you guys just connect a 2.4 G and that's sort of an option but if both of us were connected to it at the same time and heaven forbid the living room TV for example was also running Netflix we would quickly run out of bandwidth because you got to remember 2.4 gigahertz does offer better range but it doesn't support nearly the speeds of 5 gigahertz so if you want to be streaming especially 4k content you want that 5g network working so hot tub is another fail for us now before we go any further I do want to make it clear that in an optimal world you just use a single access point to cover everything because then you don't have any issues when you're roaming between access points and the less complexity you can have in a home network generally speaking the better but if for whatever reason that's not possible like where we are today a mesh network can help you out now ai mesh which is what we're showing here is far from the only mesh Wi-Fi solution in fact it's not even the only one that asus has but what's really cool about it is that what Asus has done is on their newest models they're really high-end stuff like the ROG rapture all the way back to a premium model from 2013 they're providing this firmware update that lets you upgrade your network while also breathing new life into your older gear and make a mesh network out of hardware that was just already available out on the market so they've got 16 different models that are supported and these are just three random ones that they sent us to set things up here so we're gonna throw this baby in bridge mode and we are gonna turn off all of its wireless functionality so that it doesn't interfere with our good Wireless that we are at ik this thing yeah and a headcrab maybe no not even a chuckle I want I wanted a chuckle or like a open a web browser you will be redirected to the AC setup wizard if not navigate to router acecomm okay I mean James I'm thinking placement why is this goes pretty well with the Live Love Laugh gamble right like I'm just kind of okay so now that we've reconfigured this all that's left to do is check out this ball and friggin ROG router interface I've never actually seen that before and make sure the internet is working all right now we need to mesh it up it's amazing how much of the tooling they reuse all right then we're gonna stick with our theory that staggering our routers is gonna be good and we're gonna do the same thing upstairs so now we're back at the front of the house and we're just going to oh I would hate to obstruct this beautiful original stripe creep James you suck and I'm gonna put this right here okay so to get into AI mesh we go into the network map and it says new feature available now what we want to do is go to here hey I'm s combined more than one ACS router to form an ami system yep yeah got it got it search for available AI mesh nodes nearby to join your AI mesh system hey there's one the AC 68 you so I think that's the one upstairs and is it gonna find the 86 you it does suggest putting them right next to each other during setup which we clearly didn't do or read the instructions so we might have to go get the AC 86 you but we'll see all right here we go so we've got a successful ad and a bunch of instructions that might have been good to look at before we positioned everything high and open space between your AI mesh router and your existing dead zone deputy blabbity yep that sounds good all right let's search again and see if we can pick up the other one it's cool that you don't have I assumed we would have to like plug Ethernet into those ones and like configure them as nodes but instead it just grabs their default SS IDs and just finds them yeah that's smart actually okay this one is meshed so we are all the way up in the upstairs bedroom again let's go ahead and net flix it up HD youtube it up how are you doing not bad not bad at all okay what resolution are you running at though let's see 1080 on that one sure hit it and this Netflix stream looks not bad so this is interesting James's father-in-law came home while we were working on this and said he's been thinking of putting a TV out here by the hot tub so because we're gonna have amazing Wi-Fi signal strength let's go ahead and I'm just gonna skip the part of this that isn't buffered go ahead and play that just like that Wow all we have to do is run power to it and he'd be able to get full quality 4k Netflix no problem and with something like that TCL TV that you actually did the review of recently that whole thing could be done pretty cheaply and that's still playing really well too not bad so James is uh James Wi-Fi on the gram not great not something we should figure out how to test in future notebook videos but uh as for mine I'm on I'm on 5 gigahertz and I'm skipping around in these videos like nobody's business crazy and we're at the furthest point on the property now behind this trailer so this is between us and that access point in the window not bad these rocks ow my soft youtuber feet ah so that's it my work here is done all that remains is to throw away the garbage that we produced and OH tell you guys about the opportunity of a lifetime you too can own an AI mesh compatible router from Asus just by checking out the link in the video description you've got to make a 15 to 30 second video talking about how bad your internet solution is and three lucky winners of three not six sorry three lucky winners will get their very own AI mesh router the contest closes seven days after this video airs so go check it out and write like and dislike and buy the stuff we featured in video subscribe yes and our met rich store