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ASCII.jp High-speed Wi-Fi throughout the house! Wireless LAN "Deco M9 Plus" is recommended
The advantage of a Wi-Fi router is that you can connect to the Internet from anywhere in the house without worrying about data traffic. However, the farther away you are from the Wi-Fi router, the weaker the signal, and depending on the location, it may be difficult for the signal to reach you, and Wi-Fi communication may be interrupted. If you think you're using your smartphone on Wi-Fi and keep watching videos, you're actually wasting data traffic... it's a shame. "Mesh Wi-Fi" eliminates such anxiety and realizes comfortable Wi-Fi communication anywhere in the house.
What is "Mesh Wi-Fi"? What are the benefits?
If you want to use Wi-Fi in a wide area, a Wi-Fi router with a strong signal is advantageous. The products lined up by each company as high-power models are made to cover such a wide range, and can actually be used comfortably in a considerable range. However, it tends to be a blind spot due to details, such as over a reinforced wall or behind a metal shelf. It can be used almost anywhere in the house, but for some reason, the area next to the bed where you want to use it before going to bed has poor signal reception.
There is a Wi-Fi repeater that solves this kind of radio wave blind spot problem, but it is surprisingly difficult to use. If the radio wave from the Wi-Fi router does not reach, it will switch to the Wi-Fi repeater and can be used comfortably, but if it is within the reach, it will keep trying to connect to the Wi-Fi router, and it will be difficult to reach the Wi-Fi. It won't switch to the repeater. This is a phenomenon that occurs because there is no cooperation function between the Wi-Fi router and repeater, and each works independently.
↑Wi-Fi repeater is a convenient device that enables Wi-Fi connection even in places where the radio waves of the Wi-Fi router do not reach, but it does not switch well in the case of mobile devices such as smartphones. Sometimes.
Of course, if you manually turn off Wi-Fi and reconnect, it will connect to the one with the strongest signal. This is fine if you want to use it for a long time at the destination, such as a notebook PC, but if you have a smartphone or tablet that moves quickly, it is troublesome to perform this operation every time.
On the other hand, "mesh Wi-Fi" is characterized by linking multiple Wi-Fi routers to build one wide-area Wi-Fi environment. Since the connection to a Wi-Fi router with a weak signal is not used forever, it switches to another Wi-Fi router with a strong signal as appropriate, so you can achieve a high-speed Wi-Fi connection without blind spots wherever you are.
In addition, since the communication is not disconnected when switching, for example, even if the connection destination changes while watching a video, the playback of the video will not stop. These points are also advantages that Wi-Fi repeaters do not have.
↑It is an image of switching the connection destination with a repeater, but mesh Wi-Fi is closer to the image of forming one area with multiple devices. There is no disconnection when switching, and it can be used seamlessly.
What's even nicer is that mesh Wi-Fi makes it easy to add more Wi-Fi routers. If there is a blind spot with one unit, two units will be used, and if there are areas where two units still cannot reach, three units will be added, so that it can be used flexibly in any environment. If you want to use it in a large house such as a reinforced concrete apartment with poor radio waves or a three-story house, you will feel the benefits. Of course, you can use only one Wi-Fi setting. There is no need to make individual settings on the smartphone or PC side, and you can use it without being aware of which Wi-Fi router you are connected to.
