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Looking for Upgrade advice from R8500
Opinions matter, please share yours. I have a split level house (4 levels) 80' × 50'. I have used many wifi setups over the last 15 years and my current setup has been working, but now that the hou...
With a lot of the companies moving to their mesh routers connecting to alexa, auto updating, using some types of securitys, pretty much all of them are going to be "phoning home" quite regularly. Even some of the base models do that as they auto-check on updates, update times, etc
If it bothers you, you could use something like a pi-hole and block those requests.
Greetings,
I'm also a fan of the newest mesh systems.
If you go Pro - Meraki or FortiNet is hard to beat
Prosumer - Ubiquiti, but they have very little in stock right now
Consumer stuff
Newest Orbi's aren't bad
Also recommend you check out the Asus Zen Wi-Fi
The XT8, XT9, XT12 or any of the E series if you want/need 6e capability. Any of these used with a wired backhaul perform extremely well. The 12's might not be available in the US (yet)