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Modern Household WiFi Problems
Hi, I have been digging around trying to get advice on how to upgrade my home wifi for my device crazed family. (and house) I have been steadily upgrading ISP speeds and network gear for a long time and find myself at a fork in the equipment decision. (Wifi Router or Mesh) I have a fairly large multi story single family home with many, many streaming devices, some wireless, some wired. The number of wireless devics is now exceeding the wired and my current wifi router can not handle 3 iPads streaming Netflix plus the constant traffic from all the laptops, game systems, phones and other applicances on wireless. From the reviews and specs I can find, no one answers 'real life' problems on performance and best practices. They all seem to be optimized or following a common set of assumptions that I don't fit into. [Like a squad of teens coming over to hang out and consequently crush my network] Assuming my ISP service is fast enough, is Nighthawk X10 (or other) better than Orbi? Can Orbi (or any consumer setup) handle 3 streaming Netflix devices and not QoS everything else down to what 'feels' like my first cable modem from 1997? Any help/advice is much appreciated. Cheers.