How to create a fast and stable WiFi network for all your devices.

WiFi networks are everywhere and you are most likely reading this while connected to one. However, in our home or office, WiFi coverage does not always reach all corners and rooms, there are 'dead' spaces in which the signal does not reach or the speed is so slow that surfing the Internet becomes unbearable. The solution to these problems is to create a WiFi meshed network like ASUS AiMesh .

The consumption of content from our smartphones and tablets does not stop increasing. Today are our main devices, with which we spend more time and interact and in them we have dozens of applications to consume videos, information, games ... Data rates have improved a lot in these years, but unfortunately are not unlimited , so WiFi connections are vital to be able to consume all the multimedia content that we want without worrying about the expense.

With our mobile devices we move constantly at home, sometimes without stopping what we are doing with them, and that can lead to surprises: who has not happened that after a good time watching videos, has noticed that the WiFi connection had failed due to low signal and was pulling data rate all that time? At one stroke we have eaten a good piece of the month's data bonus.

WiFi meshed system to cover all rooms

The range of our WiFi is not perfect and depends on all kinds of factors, including some that are not under our control. For example, whether or not WiFi reaches a corner of the home may depend on how the spaces are distributed, the construction materials that separate the different rooms or floors ... even the furniture and its position in each room!

To end these problems and get a reliable , stable and fast wireless Internet connection from any device have emerged mesh systems (WiFi Mesh) and the ASUS solution is called AiMesh, with which you can also continue to take advantage of your old routers to expand the Network.

How Asus AiMesh works and the WiFi meshing system

As its name suggests, a meshed system such as ASUS AiMesh creates a "mesh" that covers the entire surface of the home, reaching corners that a single router could not reach, not having enough reach. To create that mesh, the system consists of a main router and different nodes.

We will place these nodes halfway between the 'blind' points where no signal and the main router arrive. All right, but what are those nodes? At this point lies one of the great advantages of AiMesh, since we can reuse our old routers to use them as nodes and create our meshed system without spending more money.

The advantages over traditional WiFi repeaters

The question that may arise is, how is a WiFi system meshing different from the functioning of a traditional WiFI repeater?

When configuring a WiFi repeater, it takes the main router signal and creates a new WiFi network, with a different SSID. The drawback is that on many occasions our smartphone, tablet or computer will be capturing the WiFi signal of the repeaters and the main router, since we will be in rooms where the coverage of all of them comes. What will happen? That our device will connect to one of them automatically but that does not mean that it is the network with the best signal in that place. Therefore, we can continue to experience cuts and slow speed.

On the other hand, in a mesh WiFi system such as ASUS AiMesh, both the main router and the nodes (which, remember, are routers that we already had reused in the form of nodes) create a single network, with a single SSID for the entire network , or we can also create an SSID for each band (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz).

The magic of the meshed system is that the nodes and the main router work together to always offer the best possible connection. So, if you move around the house and the different rooms, the device will automatically switch between the routers to connect to the best signal at all times . All without the user being aware, without having to do anything, all in an invisible way.

Ease of installation and higher WiFi performance

Asus AiMesh allows you to take advantage of all the options and functions of the routers and every change applied by the user in the main router, it is automatically applied in the rest of the nodes, that way you do not have to repeat configurations saving time.

In addition, the mesh WiFi system of Asus also stands out in reliability thanks to functions like "self-healing": if one of the routers fails for some reason, the system will detect it and automatically replace it in its functions with the signal from the rest of the routers .

Creating a fast, wireless and stable network does not have to be difficult, it must be accessible for users of all levels and in Omicrono we explain in detail how we have created a WiFi system meshed using three ASUS routers to cover absolutely all the rooms of a house with several floors. In its official website you can also find all the details and compatible routers.