[SOLVED] Best mesh wifi right now

[mihen]

A mouse just ate through my ether net cable and it would be difficult to replace. I was wondering if a mesh network can replace a wired network today?

 

[richiestang_78]

Mesh networks are a huge step forward in wireless however they still aren't nearly as fast or reliable as hard-line. They also are quite expensive compared to standard wireless routers.

If you know where the break is in the Ethernet cable you can simply cut the damaged part out, and splice the to halfs back together. There are alot of videos and posts about how to do this.

 

[bill001g]

Mesh is still wifi and it suffers all the same problems as wifi. Key is interference causes date retransmissions which causes random delays. If you are not a online gamer you will not even notice. Gamers will see lag in games because of it.

Now adding mesh especially if you are actually using the "mesh" feature means you have multiple wifi jumps. Each can get data corruption. So now you have multiple sources of lag for your game.

So even if it is a pain I would still fix or rerun the cable. After that you try powerline networks or maybe Moca if you have tv coax. Then you would try wifi and very very very last you would use mesh repeaters.

 

[mihen]

I'm surprised MOCA only gets you a 1 Gbps connection. Running from 1000mhz to 1500mhz should net you about 81 6mhz channels. Each of these channels is capable of 30Mbps on DOCSIS standard 3.0 and older. But the upload standard may be an issue.
Decided to give CAT8 a try.