Thank you Lee, as always….your so much help..

John


> On Mar 30, 2017, at 10:00 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 30, 2017, at 7:12 AM, John Robinson <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> Those in the know, what is the opinion of the new Linksys Mesh Wi-Fi’s?   
> 
> I don’t know about the Linksys version, but I helped install an Eero 
> <https://eero.com/> mesh several weeks ago in a big house and it worked 
> really well.
> 
>> Good, bad, indifferent?  
> 
> If you have a big house or one with impenetrable walls, a mesh or extender 
> would no doubt help get strong WiFi to the secret nooks and crannies. For 
> most people, with reasonably-sized homes, a centrally placed single unit is 
> probably just as good.
> 
> In my house, which is of normal size, I have a single router in a closet near 
> the center of the house and there are no signal problems anywhere. If I had 
> to put the router in a corner of the basement instead, I’d probably be 
> thinking about an extender or a mesh system.
> 
> It’s a current fad. During the last couple of years all the consumer-grade 
> router companies have come out with these mesh systems.
> 
>> Is the technology real or tech talk?  
> 
> Yes it’s real. This is how the pros have been covering big venues for many 
> years. It’s well-tested technology that’s just now trickling down to the 
> consumer level.
> 
>> SAFE?
> 
> It’s probably no less safe than any other router. All the traffic on the mesh 
> is encrypted.
> 
> L^2
> 
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> Lee Larson
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