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If you’re looking to build an advanced DIY Wi-Fi mesh system, here’s some good news. Today, TP-Link announced the availability of its Omada Cloud Essentials as an option for those who want to build the system without a local controller. Specifically, if you want to start a Wi-Fi system using …
Since first announced on January 10 this year, the ZenWiFi BQ16 Pro has been an intriguing and highly anticipated mesh system. As it finally becomes available for purchase, I’d say it’s worth the wait—a completely different experience from the similar yet anticlimactic hardware that is the TP-Link Deco BE95. Indeed, …
In a way, each router of the 2-pack ASUS ExpertWiFi EBM68 AX7800 Tri-Band Business Wi-Fi 6 System is a combination of the EBA63 access point and the EBG15 non-Wi-Fi router. And in that sense, it’s simply a more powerful variant of the EBR63 router. That’s to say, the new mesh …
Earlier this month, on April 16, 2024, TP-Link announced the availability of the Deco XE70 Pro AXE4900 Tri-Band Mesh Wi-Fi 6E System. The name rang a bell. Prior to that, there had been the Deco XE75 Pro and the original Deco XE75. I took the new canned mesh system—if we …
The D-Link M60 Aquila Pro AI AX6000 Mesh Wi-Fi 6 Router is the first D-Link router I’ve reviewed in a long time. It’s completely different from the previous DIR-X5460, with a more exciting design and better firmware. Still, despite the (nonsensical) “Pro AI” notion in the name, the M60 remains …
The Linksys Velop Micro 6 Mesh System, officially available today, is an exceptional Wi-Fi solution that is both humdrum and exciting. Humdrum because it features the four-year-old Wi-Fi 6 standard. In case you’ve been busy, I’ve reviewed over a dozen and counting Wi-Fi 7 solutions since mid-2023, not to mention …
This post is a primer on Linksys Velop, a popular brand for home mesh-ready routers and purpose-built systems. While the performance of each hardware unit (and mesh set) varies depending on their hardware specs, all Velop variants share the same firmware and, therefore, a similar set of networking/Wi-Fi features and …
As the first quad-band hardware with the 6GHz spectrum split in two, the TP-Link Deco BE95 BE33000 Quad-Band Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi 7 System proved complicated in my experience. That was the case when I first got my hands on it in early August 2023—Wi-Fi 7 was still in draft …
On January 4, 2023, ASUS unveiled its new ExpertWiFi product line. After unsurprisingly missing the initial availability target, initially set for “the first quarter of 2023, ” the networking vendor is finally shipping the ExpertWiFi EBR63 standalone router. There will soon be more hardware options, including those supporting Wi-Fi 7. …
Amazon’s eero Max 7—its first foray into Wi-Fi 7—was available for purchase on October 26, 2023, months before the latest Wi-Fi standard itself became certified at the beginning of this month. Initially, I didn’t intend to review the new hardware, as I found it overpriced based solely on the specs. …
