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Hello and welcome to Hands on Tech. I am Micah Sargent, and as is always the way of this show and of me, I guess.

You, I should remind you, can email me, HOT.com, when you have questions.

But yeah, someone already has, and that's what I'll be doing today is answering their question on the show.

We got a question in from

George who is asking about home networking as George is preparing to get things up and running in the home.

George says, I am getting ready to do some Ethernet cable runs around the house and I'm considering

an upgrade to my Wi-Fi router system at the same time. We have a multiple

floor house, so coverage can be challenging. It seems I have two options. Either do a mesh router

system or install multiple Wi-Fi access points with the same network ID and password. I would

use the mesh system, but I don't

love the cloud-based system that a mesh router employs. Am I being paranoid? Are the mesh

system significantly more usable and are not susceptible to cloud issues? I am fairly adept technologically,

so the access point option is not a big deal for me. Is there an advantage to running multiple access points like in an office environment?

If I want to do the multiple access point setup, now is the time when I run the Ethernet cables.

Really interested in what you think about this.

Oh, George, I'm so glad you've asked this question before you've gone through with it,

because frankly, the short answer is you're not being paranoid.

Multiple wired access points that are wireless themselves is the better setup if you are running

Ethernet. A wired AP system will outperform a mesh system in almost every single way.

Thruput, latency, roaming, longevity, all of those are superior when you're using a wired AP system.

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