Right now I'm using a mesh network with 3 nodes. We've recently shifted to a big and old house with more than 1.5 feet thick walls. They are very hard to penetrate with signal so a mesh network was necessary.
I tried this one. Iball has a rebranded version of the same for a much lower price. It has great 5ghz but 2.4ghz sucked (keeps breaking every few mins) so I am shifting from it. Maybe it was specific to my hardware but i was facing it on all three nodes on multiple clients
I am using this now. It beats mw6 on 2.4ghz but the 5ghz performance isnt even close to it. I am looking for some setup to cover 4000 sqft of space. Currently gonna go with a6. Lets see how well it handles bd-mux
I have a 100 Mbps connection. I get around 98-102 on 5Ghz and around 78-85 on 2.4Ghz. Serving me well.
What sort of range? how many walls in between the receiver and transmitter?
I'm not sure about the iball one being a rebrand of the mw6. The one I saw online
Mine is a 2200 sqft duplex house. Most of time one wall with those results.
I have used these three routers before switching to the MW6:
Thanks for the detailed review. I was considering the other 2 as well
I went to rajouri garden reliance digital and placed an order for 65 u7980. It is not available in that location but they are arranging one from hyderabad. It will be delivered by end of this week or early next week. Only 15 pieces were available in Hyderabad when I had placed the order so if you want one then I would recommend that u order one soon as new stock can't be imported till toshiba gets the license for it and given the bureaucracy and the anti-china sentiment, it might take a lot of time for toshiba to get one.
Final Price for the 65 inch and is dere a demo piece available?
I got it for 65k after ICICI card discount. I didn't negotiate so you might get a better price if you do. I just wanted them to arrange this model for me.
So I researched a bit on this and it seems like they are using same PCB. However the housing is different and the claimed range is different too (4500 sq. Feet vs 6000 on MW6). Also, this unit sells for cheaper than an MW6 in China during 1's day sale, so there's no way they use completely same hardware. If iball was able to make it this cheap, Tenda would also have been a lot cheaper at least in China.
Why not just get Tp link's mesh networks. The E4 is selling for just 9k. The A6 is a really low end router which won't perform that well even with mesh since your backhaul will not be very high performance.
Most of the mesh systems have limited features like they can only be accessed via app, tenda mesh systems dont allow assigning permanent ip addresses based on mac, u need to have the same name for 2.4ghz and 5ghz. These are few problems i remember that i had faced so realised that mesh networks are probably for usual user who dont require much advance features and just need a simple setup. That is why switching to normal router with mesh capability.
You can set permanent IP address on your machines themselves, so it's never an issue. Also, if the same MAC address connects again, it will always assign the same IP as before automatically. The major benefit of the same name for 2.4 GHz and 5GHz is the seamless switching without reconnecting your WiFi which can interrupt connections. If I'm on my phone and I get away, it automatically will switch me to 2.4 GHz. I don't see anything I want to do I can't with a Mesh setup. Also, you can do a wired backhaul with a mesh setup as well.
I called dere and was told executive will get in touch but received no such call. Can you share number of some personnel with ehom you are i. Touch with.
