Your Guide to Mesh Wifi: What It Is and How It Works
By Ring on July 26, 2024
If you’ve been looking for a fix for your spotty internet, you’ve probably come across mesh wifi systems. These systems are similar to traditional wifi — with a few key improvements to get you better coverage.
Learn more about mesh wifi, how it works, and the many benefits of switching to a mesh system.
What Is Mesh Wifi?
Mesh wifi is a type of local area network (LAN). It uses a central router and multiple nodes, similar to extenders, to provide a strong wireless connection. Each component of your mesh system communicates with the other nodes to blanket your home with coverage and help eliminate dead zones.
How Does a Mesh Wifi System Work?
Mesh wifi is decentralized, which means it uses multiple nodes that act as routers, as opposed to one router. Each node broadcasts a wifi signal throughout your home, communicating with the others to create an uninterrupted connection. When you add devices to your mesh wifi network, they automatically connect to the closest node for the strongest coverage.
Mesh wifi systems eliminate the need for wifi extenders, which create a different network from your router. Whether you’re playing video games in the basement or working in the attic, you can use the same network instead of connecting to an extension or losing signal altogether.
Benefits of Mesh Wifi
Swapping your traditional wifi for a mesh system comes with many benefits, including:
Do You Need a Mesh Wifi System?
There are many problems a mesh wifi system can fix. Here are a few reasons why you might want mesh wifi over a traditional system:
A traditional setup may provide enough coverage throughout your space if you live in a small apartment or home. But you’ll still experience many of the benefits, like stronger security and simple device management, by making the switch.
Experience Mesh Wifi With Ring Alarm Pro
At Ring, we know how important strong wifi is in a connected home. To help you experience the benefits of mesh wifi, we included a built-in eero wifi router in Ring Alarm Pro. While you add essential protection to your home, you can also take advantage of more reliable wifi and stronger digital security.
Ready to turn your existing wifi setup into a mesh wifi system? Browse our Ring Alarm Pro security kits to get started.
1 Advanced online security features are available to US customers with eero Secure, which is included with a Ring Protect Pro subscription.
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