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Multiple AC1750 WiFi Mesh Extenders in home
Very simple question; If I add a second or third AC1750 Mesh Extender to a second and/or third room in my home and walk through with a WiFi connected cell phone, will the system hand off the phone f...
- Between the router and extender. You can read into it as you will. I've said my part and explained what you'd need to do to get it to work. I've also recommended going with a mesh setup. Do as you will.
According to the 'attached devices' section in the router setup, it appears that my phone is connecting to 5ghz.
So, just as an update...
After two days of playing with this thing, I have definitely concluded that your experiences not withstahding, it is definitely not what it is advertized as and is essentially a $300 wasted effort. It does not do seamless handoffs well, if at all
I've got the two units, the router and the satellite positioned 40 feet apart now and am not using the second satellite.
If I initiate a phone call from about 4 feet from the router, I get great call quality, but once I walk to the satellite and get to about 4 or 5 feet from it, the call gets so bad, that I hear garbled voice, dropouts, and the call inevitably drops. Looking at the signal strength, I can see between -65 and -75dbm which is unacceptable signal strength on WiFi for a phone call.
I am not sure why your system hands off so well, unless either you just haven't done the kind of testing that I have, or your phone just hands off more efficiently than mine does. I'd say that during non call testing, I must manually switch to get from the router to the satellite (or back again) about 95% of the time. If I don't do it manually, the system itself take at least 15-20 seconds to do so...definitely enough time to drop calls.
While the Orbi is a nice router in itself and seems to be fine for stationary devices, it fails miserably, at least in my situtaion, as a mesh system.
I do thank you once again for your help and patience, but obviously this product is not for me.