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thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button then enable notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any future videos we've all been there you get a fancy-looking wireless router that promises lightning-fast speeds and ridiculous range only to find that you can't even load a gift in your upstairs bedroom heck maybe you're experiencing this right now and I look blockier then the questionable content you used to watch on your parents 56k modem and with our increasing reliance on mobile devices these days like tablets and smart phones and laptops solutions for extending the range of your Wi-Fi have become more popular than ever including mesh networks and I'm not talking about meetups of fishnet donning fetishists you know I'm talking about a Wi-Fi setup that uses multiple nodes that can spread a Wi-Fi signal all of your home office or pillow fort as it were on the surface the way it operates seems pretty simple just connect one of the hockey puck looking nodes to your modem and place the others around your house or you need a signal boost each node connects to the others in an attempt to give you a stronger wireless signal over a much larger area than you'd get with a single router well hold on a second James I have a cheap range extender for my wireless networks then it sounds like it does the same thing what's the difference so here's the deal bro Chacho garden-variety Wi-Fi extenders or repeaters are notorious for degrading the network speed because their antennas have to communicate with both client devices like your phone and laptop as well as your main router your effective speed can be reduced as much as 50% while using one which is bunk by contrast nodes in a mesh network are typically engineered with separate antennas so they can talk not just with the main router but to each other this helps them handle network backhaul backhaul is all the traffic other than what's being transmitted to and from the iPhone in your hand although this isn't a perfect system and mesh networks can still slow down if you add lots of nodes they do tend to be much quicker than simple range extenders but hold on again these days you can get fancy network extenders with multiple antennas and even models that support mu-mimo which lets the extender send and receive from multiple devices simultaneously which you can learn about right here so are there still benefits to going with a mesh network instead as it turns out yes there are you see what an extender does is create a whole new Wi-Fi network instead of being a true extension of the one created by your router this puts you into one of two less than ideal situations one if your extender uses a different network name or SSID you have to manually switch to it when you want to use it or two if your extender shares the SSID with your main network most devices aren't smart enough to automatically switch to whichever one is giving off the stronger signals leading to frustration when you walk between your router and the extender mesh Wi-Fi on the other hand uses one single glorious network that's intelligently managed by whichever node serves as your primary router making it a seamless experience as you move around your house additionally mesh networks can adjust automatically if you add or remove nodes and quickly reroute the network traffic between them to account for the new node configuration and mesh networks also come with creature comforts that are harder to find on traditional wireless routers everything from easy network management with a mobile app to integrated support for smart home devices making them attractive to folks who want a set it and forget it experience however they do tend to be pricier than extenders so make sure that a mesh network isn't overkill for your home you probably don't need one if you're living in Tokyo and the only thing you can afford is a studio apartment the size of a sardine can speaking of affordable private Internet access not only 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