2 Reasons Your WiFi Sucks & What is Mesh WiFi?

This video will go over the two reasons why wifi sucks, which is speed and coverage. Then end with "What is mesh wifi?" and my favorite recommendations.

You have to have some speed and cable ISP and fiber optic internet can provide good download speeds but not as good upload speeds as fiber optic internet. If you live in rural areas, satellite and cellular can sometimes be as fast as any other option.

But if you have decent speed, then the next problem is coverage. Many people think you can just get a single massive router and cover a giant, odd-shaped home. But that doesn't always work, especially if your router is in the master closet or in a corner of the house. Also the routers that the ISP gives you typically are not very good.

Getting a mesh wifi system is the most common and helpful solution for people with WiFi issues. I have a few of the best wifi systems below and you can check out which one is right for you between the Netgear Orbi, the Amazon Eero, Linksys Velop, and many others.

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0:00 Intro/B
1:26 1st Reason - Speed of lack there of
1:49 Cable Internet
3:07 Fiber Optic Internet
3:49 Internet Misinformation
5:30 2nd Reason - Coverage
8:37 2.4Ghz vs 5.0Ghz
9:39 What Is Mesh Wifi?
10:06 Netgear Orbi
12:18 Eero & Velop
13:01 Google Wifi and others

[garybarham]

Very good video. I seen a lot of others on YouTube for this subject and you’ve condensed this just right for me.

[truthseeker]

This video was extremely helpful. My internet was very hit or miss around my home. I have a 3 level house and the modem was on the lower level. I saw your video and started looking into Mesh systems. Bought a TP-Link from Amazon in sale. Installed it now Wi-Fi coverage is insanely fast. I was getting 40 to 50 mbps download before the upgrade, and even that was shotty. After the mesh system upgrade now I am getting 140 mbps consistently all over my house on all levels. A real 180 degree difference, night and day.

[Ranger]

Great video B. I work for Lumen fiber and you nailed it, fiber is always better than any coax or copper provided service. I use 2 eero pro’s in a 2100 sq ft house with 20-30 connected devices on our 1GB service. Absolutely no issues.

[Indyjeeplover]

I live in a very rural area. Our one and only option is Century Link. No other available. Our “speed” is 12 mb, just recently upgraded from .7. (Dial up). We have a good sized two story with basement. When the tech installed the router, he put it on the second story in a middle bedroom. I now have a basement office that is getting less than 6 mb and it cuts out frequently

We have Ethernet wired through quite a bit of the home, including very close to the basement office. From your video, I think I’m going to upgrade to mesh as there are a number of walls and floors I’ll need to go through wherever I put the router. Should I incur the expense of moving the router to the main floor from the second story, or just get the mesh and two auxiliary units? I guess the question is, does it matter if the router is in the middle and auxiliary ones at the extreme ends, or will it be as effective if they are router to auxiliary to auxiliary in series?

Your video is extremely well done with no stupid music blaring in the background and very concise. Well explained without being redundant

Thanks

[InspireAndSimplify]

The problem with most installers (myself included) is they do have the knowledge about products, but their company has strict orders for them not to recommend products. Main reason being is if there is an issue that arises, then that installer, the company included, gets blamed. Most ISPs have a bad rep already, so to add that would make things even worse.
I try to recommend mesh WiFi every time, and I make sure that I say it’s my personal recommendation, not the company’s.

[ot]

Super helpful! 4 yrs ago moved to a rural area and HughesNet was the only WiFi service available, ughh but anyways, ziply fiber is now available- and now moving to a home that has a daylight basement. This has helped me to sort out confusion on what to buy! Thank you!

[Indyjeeplover]

I live in Avery rural area. The one and only ISP is Century Link. No other option. Max speed is about 12 mb. When the tech installed the router

[VegasMatt]

I bought the Orbi wifi 6 at cost co for like $80 off about month and half ago . Makes a world of difference. Fast speeds through out my 2, 400 Sq feet and runs my outdoor wireless security and ring doorbell smoothly. Worth the money!

[janssenmarcel]

I recently installed the Nexxt Vector 3600AC three unit mesh. Our house has concrete walls and the ISP router just covered 30% of the house. With two kids having online classes and two adults working from home, the traditional extenders didn’t make it . After installing the mesh, the whole house has great coverage and connection speeds are great. The only down side is that it uses outdated security protocol. Nexxt did promise to update to AES.

[WiFiGuy]

One of the most informative Wi-Fi videos I've seen on YouTube. I'm going to start incorporating the word "suck" into my own videos.

[rodneydangerfield]

Thank you for the great, very informative video, Brandon!

[jb.]

I’m the anti-technology geek but I purchased an Eero Pro 6 tri-band mesh Wi-Fi 6 system and it was the best investment I could’ve made for my home network. All my home network issues that I had with my Nest outdoor security cameras and internet service have been resolved.

[jakethemus]

Bro, I honestly only hit the 👍because you said you were from the 619!🤙! But then you started to drop some major knowledge and made it super easy to understand and relate and at that point I had to Subscribe!👊! Excellent work my brutha, you truly gamed me up and for that I am extremely grateful!🙏! Bout to hit your Amazon Link for the Netgear Orbi! Thanks again my Brutha! Keep doing your thing, You reppin Daygo to the Fullest!💯!

[ashoo]

I recently upgraded to ATT Fiber and the modem/router combo is great even with a 4000 sq ft house. Just 1 router. I used to have the Google mesh system (4 units total around the house) but disconnecting them all gives me much faster speed and coverage. ~300/350Mbps download and ~300/350Mbps upload speeds in the farthest distance from the one ATT modem/router. When I had the mesh system, it gave me slower speeds even though I was right next to it. I can't explain that part!

[TheGrainSideUp]

Anything is better than the provider rented equipment. I have Suddenlink service at 300M and it sucked using their equipment. I decided to return the modem/router and get my own. I went with the Arris surfboard 3200 and purchased the MeshForce M3 suite. I didn't know what I was missing. My speed and wifi were great and no more dropping/buffering. My youngest is moving into their own apartment. They are taking the MeshForce unit. I was considering the Google Nest unit, but I am glad I saw your video and read some comments. Also in consideration was the Eero, and TP Link. Thanks for the information!

[mrcet]

We recently switched from:
* 200Mbps Spectrum with our trusty-but-old AirPort Extreme 802.11ac (I gather nowadays called “WiFi 5”), to
* “1Gbps” Google Fiber and the two free “Nest” mesh routers that came with it.

I’m finding the WiFi speed to be all over the map: Typically 500-650Mbps in line-of sight of the routers, but all-too-often dropping *_way down_* to below 100Mbps, occasionally as low as 20Mbps for short times.

I’ve only done one wired hookup so far, and the speed was *_a lot_* more consistent.

Fair chance I’ll switch back to our old AirPort Extremes!

[edwardmurray]

Thanks for the info., The local tech recommended an Arris system saying it worked better with the Comcast modem. So I will get that mesh system. Comcast Business customer service was of no help at all and tried to sell several additional services that didn't seem applicable to slow wifi issue.

[stephensantoro]

great video. Clear and concise. I just increase my speed to COX Gigablast. I am now getting 35 mbps upload and 400 -500 mbps download WIRED. On my galaxy on 5gigabyte I get 122 down and 34.6 up near ny router. 2.4 is lower. You helped me understand. Thanks

[sms]

As a professional IT WiFi engineer, Xtenders = bad, MESH = only fair but easy for novices, true performance comes from proper placement of multiple AP's and proper configuration/installation. MESH is highly over-rated but an easy install alternative to a real connection.

[FastRedPonyCar]

My number 1 tip for people wanting to install a 2 or 3 mesh wifi setup at their house is to call around electricians to get a dedicated CAT6 cable backhaul ran from wherever your cable modem and main AP is located to connect to the mesh units.

If the AP's have to punch through walls to talk to one another, you're automatically sacrificing speed just for the backhaul communication so no matter how good your range is with the satellite AP's, you're starting off with a bandwidth handicap.