![]() ![]() With the very new Luma arriving at my home just in time for me to do a head-to-head comparison in my home, I was comfortable knowing that I would be able to get a sense of whether these admittedly costly solutions were worth it.įor my single family home, blessed with full access to the basement and attic, wired networking is easy. I had read a lot about the eero and the Luma in the numerous Home Server Show Forums, and heard podcaster Dave McCabe go over the pros and cons of each. I also wanted something reasonably friendly to deploy and administer, since I'm also likely to be the guy replacing the WiFi in my family and friends houses soon enough. The thinking was better speeds in all rooms of course, but also potentially battery life for each of those gadgets, since less power is needed to juice up the WiFi circuitry when the AP (Access Point) are closer by. This time around, I figured I'd seek out something a little more corporate in heritage, with multiple access points nearer to my family's devices. The idea of a huge WiFi router with big antennas and considerable watt burn seems rather antiquated to me. Time to find a better solution for my home FYI, 2 weeks later, the Linksys found a new home in my son's off-campus apartment, where only 30Mbps is available anyway. Click twice for a closer look at the powered-off Linksys EA6900, Ubiquiti Networks EdgeRouter Lite performing DHCP/DNS/VPN/routing, and one of three eeros doing just 802.11ac WiFi. But for my home, this also mean that when you head out, then arrive back and get close to home, the 2.4GHz signal gets picked up first, so your phone likely then stays locked on that frequency. If you use the same SSID for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz in your WiFi design, you have the benefit of ease-of-use. Silently suffering from lowers speeds and higher latency. So they join the 2.4GHz SSID and leave it there, for coverage throughout the home, and less fuss. That's because those higher frequency signals generally don't pass through walls quite as well as 2.4GHz. Yes, they're likely to have faster speeds on 5GHz in some rooms, but then they get no 5GHz signal in others. If you go with separate SSIDs for 2.4GHz and for 5GHz, your family is likely to be less than thrilled. If your home is more like 30 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up, then you're unlikely to really see the benefits of 802.11ac and/or 5GHz frequencies. At least the rest of my network is now so ready. Cox G1GABLAST 1000 Mbps / 1000 Mbps service will be arriving as soon as late 2016 with a similar monthly cost, which will require a new modem again. This allowed Cox Communications to seamlessly upgrade Wethersfield, CT to 300 Mbps down / 30 Mbps earlier in 2016. ![]() Time has marched onward and speeds upward, with DOCIS 3.0 modems with 16 bonded channels like the SB6183 arriving at my home in 2014. And my speeds rarely passed 100Mbps anywhere in the house. Even the one that claimed to use a wired back-haul. There were also some lower speed spots in the house, and two different WiFi repeaters that I briefly tried out didn't fix this. Not exactly typical, I know.īut earlier this year, I had started to have issues with the Linksys EA6900's web UI, once I had a lot of DHCP reservations in there. I also managed bend the Linksys DNS to my will, getting a FQDN of lab.local going for my home's vSphere 6.0 lab. Netgear and Asus competitors would require nearly a minute of downtime for such changes. Routine admin tasks like port forwarding changes didn't cause it to reboot, keeping the household's family internet going, uninterrupted. ![]() ![]() It's been 3 years since my family moved up to 802.11ac with the careful decision to go with the Linksys EA6900 AC1900 Dual-Band Wi-Fi router. The Luma 3 pack is available at Amazon, Best Buy, or Luma for ~$400 USD. The eero 3 Pack is available at Amazon, Best Buy, or eero for ~$500 USD. Posted by Paul Braren on (updated on Dec 16 2019) in ![]()
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