Mesh & Signal

About Mesh & Signal

Home networking is sold on peak throughput numbers that almost nobody will see. The figure on the box is a best-case laboratory total across every band at once. What a household actually experiences is a back bedroom two brick walls away from the router, thirty devices competing for airtime, and a video call that drops at the same point on the stairs every day. Coverage, not throughput, is the real problem.

Mesh & Signal is being built around that reality. The plan is to describe how systems behave in older houses with dense walls and awkward layouts, to be specific about how many nodes a given floor plan really needs, and to treat the setup app and the update record as part of the product rather than a footnote. Firmware support length will be stated wherever the manufacturer publishes it, and flagged as unknown where it does not.

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