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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    Sorry, I should have been more specific... I was referring to the extremely poor speeds seen when connected to remote nodes in his real world "open air" test. Even with a laptop hardwired to a remote node (so strictly testing backhaul speed), he only saw around 20mb/s. The distance and...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    Yeah, I mentioned in a post in this thread a few weeks ago that my Velop system is delivering MUCH faster speeds than Tim's test indicated, despite a similar arrangement of nodes. The Linksys people said they were trying to work with him to figure out the issue, as other reviews also noted much...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    Yes, not scientifically though. :) On a wireless node with a pretty good signal (about 25ft away, but down a floor and through a few walls), I get about 350mb/s when connected through that node. Speed through a hardwired node is virtually identical to that of main node (about 500mb/s).
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    Setting aside possible issues with double-NAT if you're using a router as your ethernet switch (which sounds like may be the case), I can say with absolute certainty that ethernet backhaul works perfectly through a regular ethernet switch. In fact, my setup has TWO switches between the main...
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    Orbi with AirPort Extreme?

    If I'm not mistaken, "routing performance" only comes into play with WAN traffic. Wired LAN-only traffic doesn't go through the router portion of the device, but rather is just sent directly on its way through the switch(es). I would personally just go with the Orbi rather than incorporating...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    Actually, in this instance it wasn't even the busy node I was trying to connect to... it was another node that was on the same channel as the busy node. No complaints about that, just mildly curious as to whether it was the client that made that call, or the Linksys.
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    Installed iPerf on a second hardwired computer so I could run two full-speed tests from different wireless clients. Here's what I found... 1) With only one client running the test, I naturally got the expected full 400-500mb/s 2) With both clients testing on the same node and same channel...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    While you wait for a response from someone more knowledgeable than me, I THINK how it works is that multiple nodes can coexist on the same channels, but that doesn't change the fact that there's only so much data that can be piped through any given channel in the same household. Real-world...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    I find that this is rarely a problem on initial connect... my computers and mobile devices almost always pick the 5ghz band even though the 2.4ghz band of course usually has a stronger signal. I'm guessing modern devices are capable of making the determination that a moderate 5ghz signal is...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    I was thinking the same thing. But from reading the thread/articles Tim posted, it sounds like the clients themselves are the biggest impediment to this, since they don't bother scanning for other APs until the signal strength degrades significantly. That's the most annoying thing about these...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    No, I'm just speculating, based on the fact that the wireless remote node is only broadcasting one BSSID (the main and the wired remote are broadcasting both radios). I could certainly be wrong, but my assumption was that this meant the wireless node was using the non-broadcasting radio as its...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    Sorry, I see my post was a bit ambiguous... I was referring not to the client's decision of what node to connect to, but rather the wireless node deciding to do its backhaul through the wired remote node instead of the main node if the wired remote's signal was better.
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    I can't say for certain that it (the BSSID used for clients vs backhaul on the wireless remote note) changes on the fly... I know over the course of the past few weeks that I've seen connections on that node sometimes to the lower, and sometimes to the upper channels, but it might just select...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    One more observation about backhaul. My Velop setup consists of the main unit, an ethernet-wired remote node, and a wireless remote node. Looking at a WiFi scanner, the main and the wired remote show BSSIDs being advertised for both the upper and lower 5ghz radios. But the wireless node only...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    Yes, I believe you are correct... it doesn't appear to pick a backhaul channel and stick with it permanently, as I've observed my devices connected to the lower 5ghz channels of a node, and then at another time on the upper channels of that same node.
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    Yes, and this ties into our ongoing discussion about features vs. simplicity. Linksys probably make a conscious decision to make the node placement test EXTREMELY simple... it's either "good" or it's "not good". They didn't want to display a confusing array of RSSI numbers and link rates, or...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    I guess I just don't agree with the notion that a WiFi system like this needs to be locked down any more than a traditional router, outside of the settings that would break the mesh functionality. Just because it's a distributed WiFi system doesn't mean it MUST have an extremely dumbed-down...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    I think the intention is to continue to steer people to the app, but reduce the hoops one has to jump through to enable the web GUI (and hopefully remove or at least add warnings for the settings that could break the mesh / roaming functionality). The average user would just continue to use the...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    Also, FWIW, the Linksys people seem to be realizing that omitting an easily-accessible web GUI with advanced configuration options was a mistake. A week or two ago, they were discouraging users from accessing the secret web interface, but now, although they still warn against making certain...
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    Linksys Announces Velop Mesh Wi-Fi System

    Here's a screen shot of the wireless settings... looks like you could hypothetically change the SSID of each radio (and in fact, each node has its own individual web GUI, so presumably all of the radios on all of the nodes could have different SSIDs), but that would probably screw up the roaming...
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