![]() Perhaps because of the Holidays, release of Google WiFi, or both, Amazon steeply discounts both OnHub routers right now: Between $144 and $147.īTW Featured Image places my TP-Link model between two of the Wilcox household Christmas decorations. Besides, I love my OnHub, but, yes, strayed. The news explained the sale price and also left little promise any replacement would be a long-lasting, viable product. I returned it for being defective and received full refund. On November 20th, I boxed up the AirPort for return to Amazon, but having second thoughts planned additional testing-until, the following day, rumors rumbled about Apple disbanding its wireless router division. We have a couple Macs in the Wilcox household, so the Apple thing appealed for potential compatibility reasons. I bought Time Capsule on a whim for price serving WiFi router and high-capacity network storage. ![]() TP-Link makes the model I purchased, but another is available from ASUS-and there also is Google WiFi, which can be configured to create a mesh network with expansive range. The new, supporting app downloaded to my smartphone earlier this week. In September 2015, I reviewed OnHub, which performed flawlessly before and since. Remembering a news story claiming high number of counterfeit Apple products sold through Amazon, I checked online to confirm that the serial number was valid. Ah, yeah.ĭuring that first evening, I conducted repeated tests, with same results, even when changing some of the AirPort settings, like wireless channel or 2.4GHz and 5GHz options. By contrast, Google’s router wirelessly pumped 40Mbps or more. Placed in the same location where OnHub had been, about 3 meters away from my desk in the same room as the router, throughput consistently came in at 15Mbps, occasionally a little more, as measured by or SpeedTest.Net. At the time, I had 45Mbps AT&T Internet (which has changed since). 16, 2016, and the device arrived two days later. My tale starts with a chance sighting on Kinja Deals for the 2TB Apple WiFi router on sale at Amazon for $199 one-hundred bucks off. So comes admission: I bought Apple AirPort Time Capsule to replace Google OnHub-what a bad decision. The challenge is recognizing and correcting them quickly enough. Thanks again for a great, honest look at this situation.We all make mistakes. Their software and features are limited at the moment but more control is also promised. It is younger than Eero and Luma but promises to be more attractive. Instead you see the product only no cabling connected, in the advertising literature. ![]() I never "see" real wired (cat5 and power) cabling in most products advertising so as to understand where they really can be located in the house. Might you continue with similar reviews of Luma and Plume? In particular I like Plume's hardware for its simplicity. Your review of Eero is perfect timing, particularly the details you measured versus the number of nodes in your house. However, your points about the aging hub-spoke setup is intriguing and has me looking for the "next gen" setup, aka mesh network.Įero, Luma, Plume and others are emerging. ISP lousy service aside, I was able to force the install of a Cisco gateway for Internet only bridging (therefore not subject to almost monthly boot file pushed updates installed from the ISP wrecking my internal wifi) to gain some stability. ![]() With three kids in high school and college, a wife socially "enabled," and my Netflix binge periods, my Time Machine/Airport Express extender struggles since the cable-modem-only days. As you stated, the installers are there to minimize their time, not optimize your system, and in my case I fought double NAT and bridging the crappy gateway with mixed results for nearly 18 months. Great review, well presented and appreciated! I'm struggling with this subject for the past two years, ever since my ISP (the big boy "C") decided I needed an "upgrade" from my cable-modem-only to a "gateway" device (modem + router). ![]()
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