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Parth_Goyal
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Sep 30, 2020
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Home WiFi: Mesh vs WAP

I'm looking for setting up my home network. I have 5 Floors(Residence) + 1 Floor(Maintainence). Entire home's on automation so network would be very populated. On maintainence floor there is modem fr...
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    Mstrbig
    Sep 30, 2020
    Parth_Goyal wrote:

    Thanks.

    So as a final solution is it that Orbi Mesh is better than WAP? But, if WAP supports IEEE 802.11r (which is for smooth handoff) then it is also great.

    And if a mesh is installed then caution should be taken while selecting the switch.

    Final installation:

    Modem(Maintainence Floor) >RBK50 Router Router Mode(Maintainence Floor) >Switch Unmanaged non green >RBS50 (on each floor)

    A tri-band Orbi mesh system will perform far better than an access point, as they don't have to repeat the signal, and they have a dedicated backhaul. The RBR850 and RBR750 have a super fast backahaul channel, which will give you far better performance than Access Points. And the RBK853 and RBK753 have great coverage.

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Parth_Goyal
Aspirant
Sep 30, 2020

Thanks.

So if I select an appropriate switch then are you suggesting that Orbi Mesh would be better than WAP?

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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 30, 2020

IT would be about the same and WAP. Just with MESH, if the connection between the host router and remote satellites goes down while ethernet connected, the remote satellite will auto connect to the host router over wifi. With WAP, if the ethernet connection fails, theres not alternative to establish the connection and the user has to troubleshoot and re-establish the connection with the remote WAP.