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Originally Posted by jyl
It's time to replace the Apple Airport Extremes that blanket my house with WiFi. They have been great for many years, but are getting old. Connecting is becoming flakey, and basically I now have to think about my WiFi system every couple of weeks instead of being able to ignore it for years.
Apple no longer makes the Airports, alas. So I'm looking for recommendations and reviews.
Goals:
I'm looking for a WiFi access point(s) system that is user-friendly, easy to set up, and that I will be able to ignore for years at a time. I'm not concerned about maximum speeds, as I'm too cheap to pay for the higher tiers of Comcast speed. Speedtest.net typically shows 12 to 20 Mbps down on my wired Mac. I do not want something that looks like a black plastic spider or alien warship prominently displayed in my living room.
Coverage:
Wood frame house, four levels to cover (basement, ground and second floors, third floor), each about 1,000 sq ft and close to square plan. Also want signal to reach the garage, which is wood frame and just 5 feet away from the house, and the treehouse which is about 30 feet away from the house.
Usage:
Your basic streaming of Netflix etc via computers and Roku, and web browsing, sometimes streaming foreign stuff by VPN.
Current Setup:
Airport Extremes on ground floor and third floor, connected by PowerLine networking. This works perfectly fine, or did for many years.
Ideas? Reviews?
I've been reading reviews of mesh systems like Eero, Google WiFi, Plume, they seem easy to use. Pricey but so were Airports.
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I just installed a Netgear AC2600, took about 5min, most of the time was spent typing in the passwords on connected devices
It has great coverage, whole house and large pool are are now covered w/o repeaters, fast - beams mulitple 4k video faultless even to the far bedrooms
has all the pluses beam forming, Mu-Mimo, 160mhz, Quad streaming, USB 3 & eSATA
best features are ease of install and coverage, multiple 4k streams next best