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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Great cheap wifi mesh device
By xetic
I have a concrete block house and converted my garage into an office with a proper server room (containing my AP). This queer configuration destroys all signals attempting to pass through 2 sets of to a great extent insulated interior walls and a concrete block (previously) exterior wall.
Not wanting to go through the hassle of running a line for a hard wired AP in the rest of the house, I opted to undertake a mesh solution. I expended a great deal of time researching DIY mesh methods using cheap routers but found a lot of potential difficulties others were experiencing and started to question the DIY methods.
I stumbled on the Open-Mesh Wireless Plug And Play Mesh Router and that seemed like a outstanding product but wasn’t too happy with the price tag so I decisive to give these a try. At $25 you actually can’t complain if it ends up being crap, but I was enjoyably surprised.
Because of my interior construction, I opted to place one device in each insulated room. One plugged into my switch in the server room, one in my office, and two in the house itself. This placement permitted for full wifi signal everyplace in my house where I was antecedently losing connection or hitting one bar max. These tiny units are easy to conceal and brag a powerful signal.
The units are little and seem to operate rather warm. I wouldn’t place them in any enclosed locatings such as behind amusement centers or in cabinets but in well ventilated areas they have been running fine for a couple months. I’m near positive I read in the documentation that they will without apparent effort configure themselves based on the configuration of another unit, but I couldn’t get that to occur and had to configure each one manually by only plugging power into one at a time. This could have been caused by me being raring and not doing something right though.
Overall I wouldn’t hesitate to commend these to anybody wanting a mesh network and you can’t beat the price.
0 of 0 humans found the following review helpful.
works well but set up is difficult
By James L. Dean
By default, these give rise to a network with no encryption. Like another reviewer, I had to configure these one at a time to turn on encryption and change the default password. In Windows 7 you’ll have to connect to each device wirelessly to configure it. Note that when you unplug one device to work on another it takes Windows a while to drop the old device (even if you disconnected from the old device in Windows) and it takes a few minutes for the new device to boot up and appear in the list of wireless devices. The configuration Web page (from a Web server built into the devices) is very slow. Be sure to wait after clicking “Save Changes”. Note that the changes aren’t saved permanently until you click “Save Flash”. Then you’ll get a screen that says your changes were saved and to reboot. Don’t believe it. Wait a minute or so until the next screen appears. Then you may reboot the device or verify your changes were made. I left all of the gadgets named “Mesh” and kept them in “AP+Mesh” mode. I don’t recognise what “AP+STA” mode is; the manual on the CD comprises of little more than screenshots.
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