Should You Upgrade to a Mesh WiFi 6 System?

Homes nowadays are where everyone seems to work, play, and stream online. That’s why a reliable home network is more important than ever.

For your typical apartment or mid-sized home, current wireless routers provide decent enough WiFi coverage. However, larger homes with multiple floors and dense walls require a stronger solution to cover every inch of living space. This is where Mesh WiFi 6 systems come in.

A Mesh WiFi 6 system is a whole-home WiFi solution featuring Mesh and WiFi 6 technology, designed to blanket your entire home with fast and reliable wireless connections.

Why Go With a Mesh Network?

In a traditional home network, each device only receives internet access through a fixed connection to a single access point. Since WiFi signals deteriorate as you move farther from the source, this makes it difficult to cover every corner of a house.

Sometimes one or more network nodes, such as range extenders or powerline devices, may be added to extend WiFi coverage, but each device forms a separate network, so people will experience network disconnections while moving from room to room.

In a Mesh WiFi network, multiple network nodes work together to form a single, unified network that provides a seamless WiFi connection for every home device. Multiple nodes auto-select the best connection as you move around, and your devices connect to the node with the best signal. To eliminate a WiFi dead zone, just add a new Mesh node.

What to Expect from WiFi 6?

Due to improved technologies including OFDMA, 1024-QAM, MU-MIMO, and BSS Coloring. WiFi 6 (802.11ax WiFi) boosts the overall performance compared with WiFi 5 (802.11ac WiFi) for faster speed, higher efficiency, larger capacity, and stabler WiFi connection.

• Explosively Faster WiFi Speed for Ultra-Smooth Streaming

With WiFi 6, experience stutter-free VR and enjoy stunningly vivid 4K and even 8K streaming. This standard expands the WiFi band up to 160 MHz, doubling the channel width and creating faster connections between your router and devices. Using 1024-QAM to provide a signal packed with more data, WiFi 6 makes WiFi speeds faster, roughly 30% faster than WiFi 5. The theoretical maximum transfer speeds are up to 9.6 Gbps.

• Stabler Connection Without Signal Interference

Interference from your neighbors’ wireless networks can cause issues with your wireless signal. BSS (Base Service Station) Coloring marks signals from neighboring networks so your router can ignore them. This lets you enjoy rock-solid connections for all your smart home, mobile, gaming, and desktop devices.

• More Devices Connected Simultaneously

WiFi 6 uses 8×8 MU-MIMO, which works with both uploads and downloads, providing a larger capacity to handle more devices. Whether you’re streaming, downloading, torrenting, exploring VR/AR, there’s always more than enough bandwidth for everyone.

• Reduced Power Consumption

Target Wake Time (TWT) allows devices to negotiate when and how often they will wake up to send or receive data, increasing device sleep time and substantially improving battery life for mobile and IoT devices.

The TP-Link Deco Mesh WiFi 6 System

TP-Link has been at the cutting edge of WiFi technology, providing customers with blazing fast WiFi and reliable connections. The Deco Whole Home Mesh WiFi 6 System, featuring both TP-Link Mesh technology and WiFi 6, is made up of multiple units working together seamlessly to immerse your whole home in powerful WiFi no matter its size or shape.

The Deco Mesh WiFi 6 family includes various feature-packed models for every home network. You can always find a system that best fits your needs.

For example, if you need WiFi speeds for high-bandwidth activities like streaming video and gaming, AX1800 Deco X20 is a solid choice. If faster WiFi is needed for 4K videos, VR, and high-frame-rate games, then AX3000 Deco X60 or AX3600 Deco X68 may work better for you.

For some models, you can expect more besides Mesh WiFi 6. For example, Deco X90 boosts overall speeds up to an incredible 6600 Mbps with AI-Driven Mesh that intelligently learns your network environment to provide ideal WiFi unique to your home. Deco Voice X20 helps you embrace a smarter home with whole-home voice control with a built-in Alexa smart speaker. For more flexibility, Deco X20-DSL, Deco X20-4G, and Deco X80-5G provide DSL, 4G, or 5G, respectively.

You receive all of these features and more with the Deco Mesh WiFi 6 system.

To learn more, check out the entire Deco Whole Home Mesh WiFi 6 System and find the best one for you.