choosing a Mesh Wi-Fi system or a router in your home these days can be a daunting
task and if you're looking at this right now and you're someone who's starting to
develop your smart home I've produced a buying guide right here that will help
you go ahead and make a smart purchase and be ready for the future of smart
homes so let's get going
the internet of things will change the realm of routers and Wi-Fi dramatically
and we've already seen some of these changes start to occur with the
introduction of devices like the Amazon Echo series of products HomePod and of
course Google Home's whole suite of products those devices are now pulling a
lot of data in a lot of cases and this means that you can have a really
distribution be utilizing a lot of network bandwidth with things like smart
home cameras on top of that as we go for there are other considerations that you
need to have as it relates to a smart home router so let's go through a few
things that I think are absolutely required on your router to be prepared
for the next five to ten years of at home Wi-Fi and router coverage 802.11ac
now that is a wireless standard that was developed some time ago and
you're going to want something with wave 2 at the very least and something called
multi-user multi-input multi-output or mu me mo we can call it MU-MIMO or I
don't care what we call it anyways that is essentially the ability to maintain
multiple connections with multiple devices at the same time now wave 2 is
important because it's just the newer standard for 802 11 AC but that MU-MIMO
that is really really important as far as I'm concerned going forward in
your smart home and the reason I say that is it will maximize the efficiency
of essentially the wireless bandwidth that you have access to now I have a
couple of charts here from Cisco and they've done a great job illustrating
how what was called single user multi-input multi-output that
methodology how that is not as strong as the multi-user version of this and why
I'm recommending that this is on any router you
go and purchase now what they're describing essentially boils down to the
fact that you can be in certain situations governed by the slowest
device on your home network if you don't have multi-user multi-input multi-output
capabilities what it does essentially for you is ensure that every device is
connected at its speed but it doesn't limit your other devices waiting for
that slowest device because it can move on to other things and group items kind
of together in terms of how they're being utilized on your overall wireless
bandwidth so really what I'm saying when I say MU-MIMO what I'm ultimately
saying is that capability allows you to maintain more connections at a faster
pace the second thing you're going to need is at least a dual-band system so
you're going to want to make sure and this comes with almost every router
that's out there today a 2.4 gigahertz and a 5 or 5.8 gigahertz dual band
router now that ensures that you have the ability to connect on different
wireless networks to different devices and why is that so important well it
allows you to manage your traffic differently and put those higher
consumption devices like smart home cameras and Google Home hubs or devices like that
that are pulling lots of bandwidth or utilizing a lot of your bandwidth you
can put those on the 5 gigahertz signal which is capable of faster speeds I
don't believe at this point you're required to have a tri-band or a 3 band
router or mesh system at all what what happens with the Netgear Orbi is they do
have a three band system and we'll get in detail a little more about this in
the future but ultimately what they do with that third radio is they keep all
the internal traffic between the mesh system on that third band and that frees
up the rest of the system or the rest of the radios essentially to deal with your
outside network devices so it really helps them optimize
but it is not a requirement right now as far as I'm concerned what I'd like to
see for the third component of the specifications here is at least AC 1200
or better now that's actually describing the speed of your router and the maximum
throughput that it can attain now that will be split over the 2.4 gigahertz in
the 5 gigahertz and or what's called 802.11 n and 802 11 B/G all those older
standards and the AC standard so you will want to see at least 1200 now there
are routers we're going to talk about today that have upwards of 3,000 and
I've seen a 5300 Asus router and they mean it when they're talking about that
kind of overall throughput there are some additional things that I'd like to
see on your smart home router but these are not necessarily requirements and the
first example of this is something called 802.15.4 now this is another
internet protocol or sorry wireless protocol or wireless standard that
actually ZigBee is based on so if your router or your mesh system has the
capability of speaking 802.15.4 what I'll tell you right now and we're going
to talk about this in future videos is that you will be future-proof with a new
standard or protocol that is coming and I think has the opportunity to really
change the Internet of Things industry and so that capability being on your
router I think is really important but not something critical to you right now
the ability do create a mesh system in your home is something that I wouldn't
say is necessarily a requirement for everyone I mean lots of homes can get
away with just one single router and be good there but if you have a little bit
of a larger home or you're not sure the ability to create a mesh network in the
future is very important for you one of the best things I've seen coming on
routers these days and again not a requirement but some
that I think is a relatively good idea is a security option or a security
management option on board so what you will see on lots of routers now is
direct integration with McAfee or Trend Micro and the ability to essentially
enable services that manage whole home network security instead of just being
antivirus or and firewall protection on a PC or another device a couple more
things really quickly that I think are good things to have on your router the
ability to have direct connection to NAS storage or good connection to NAS
storage and so this is network storage that I think is going to become
more and more important as more camera manufacturers give us that local storage
option WyzeCam has figured this out even though lots of people think that
cloud is the future I think there's a big want on the market today for NAS
storage and the ability to put our smart home camera storage local and connected
directly to our router is very beneficial the other thing would be
integration with services like Google Home and Amazon Alexa those
integration points will become more and more useful over time McAfee is a great
example of a service that could be on your router and Inter integrated
essentially with Google Home and Amazon Alexa as well so now
that we've talked about what should be on your router or your router system
your your Wi-Fi system let's talk about some specific models that I think really
anyone can go purchase implement and be really successful with so there's
nothing on this list of four that I don't think you could buy and be really
unhappy with so number one Google Wi-Fi provides a system where you can go ahead
and purchase one and that will relatively give you about 1,500 square
feet in your home but if you need more you can continue to add mesh Wi-Fi
access points throughout your system and they sell in groups of
three and ultimately it comes in around three hundred dollars for a set of three
now in terms of speed the Google Wi-Fi is a little bit on the slower side they
don't have that multi-user multi-input multi-output that we've talked about
they are AC 1200 so they're lower on the overall throughput spectrum as well so
in terms of managing your smart home in the future while you will have three
access points some of that will be eaten up by that back-channel traffic that
basically heads from one Google Wi-Fi device to the next to the next and then
to the Internet you will eat up lots of bandwidth there but at $300 this is a
good relatively low budget solution for your whole smart home now another thing
about Google Wi-Fi is and I've spoken with Google support about this this
surprises me a little bit they don't have the 802.15.4 support they're on
hub versions of the product which is really a very similar product to Google
Wi-Fi they tend to be a little more expensive but essentially commissioned
out to other makers so Asus makes one of these and they have that 802.15.4
support onboard so some of those onhubs actually interest me just as much the
second set of devices here are from Netgear and they're the Orbi mesh Wi-Fi
system now in general when you go and you buy these they can range a little
bit in terms of price but right now on Amazon they are three hundred and
seventy dollars u.s. so they are a little more pricey but they do have an
increased set of specifications now normally for that three hundred and
seventy dollars you're getting two devices they are quite large and that's
one of the knocks against them but they are AC 3000 so that's quite a jump and
the other thing is they're that tribe and model so what that means is they're
using one of their radios for all of that back-channel communication thereby
leaving the other two radios and a lot of the through
put on these devices available to your other two radios and all of your other
different devices in your home this makes them the tested and this is tested
by many many different you know companies and and different individuals
they are the fastest out there now when you couple that with the multi-user
multi-input multi-output capability of these devices they are incredibly
powerful and I'm sure that no matter what you have in your home it's going to
be handled by the or B if you haven't already heard of ear oh well you're
about to because Amazon actually just purchased this company now what does
that mean well I think we're going to see some very interesting things from
Amazon in terms of how they go and integrate this product it's already
relatively integrated well they already have Amazon voice assistant integration
into the Eero system of devices now Eros big boast here is that essentially they
are multi-user multi-input multi-output they have tri-band on the Eero router or
the euro access point and they have beacons that you can place throughout
your home to get another thousand square feet the big knock on arrow is
ultimately that they are a little bit too expensive you know for twenty five
hundred square feet in your home you would need an arrow in a beacon and that
device that or that would then run you around 300 us overall they look great
they have 802 15.4 which we've talked about so they are capable of something
called thread and that's that new standard that we're going to be talking
about here on the channel as we go forward they're also capable of great
encryption and some VPN options and in general you'll find that with most of
the options here but this is really powerful stuff in a really small form
factor that looks great and is ever extensible or extendable rather in your
home now then let's talk about Asus and Asus is an interesting company
and actually one of our followers here Stephen ear
his is his name I hope I'm pronouncing his last name right but he's been
showing me some statistics from a five-year-old Asus router and he has an
immense amount of equipment on this five year old router that is still heralded
today as one of the fastest routers on the market now the 68 you and he has the
1900 version of this here that device is still on CNET it's still rated as number
one overall and it's a really old router now now what it doesn't have is that
multi-user multi-input multi-output capability but asus updates firmware and
capabilities all the time they put out new capabilities to their routers all
the time if you think about Asus in general as a company they have had the
top routers are been named the top router company every year for the last
six years this is something they boast on their website and truly when I look
back through my routers over the last 10 to 15 years lots of them have been Asus
router x' and this is true when I've moved and then had to go get something
new it's been an Asus router now what I'm going to talk about is called the
Asus AC 86 you and this is a AC 2900 router with multi-user multi-input
multi-output capability the interface on Asus router is excellent and this means
your management of these devices is both configurable and easy if you want it to
be I really enjoy that they've also added an app recently that makes that
gives you another option for management of your devices and you can also monitor
things one other really sneaky thing about Asus is the ability to mesh
network their routers now a lot of their routers that are out there right now
have something on them called a imesh and they essentially again keep a lot of
their routers updated and give them this capability so you could use lots of
routers that come from Asus in the last five to ten years as a mesh
secondary points so if you have an Asus router in your home check with Asus
check their compatibility list for AI mesh and see if you can update or
upgrade your existing router to become a secondary mesh point now obviously you
wouldn't have the really really fast speeds of say an 86 you here but you
would have the capability of having a mesh system in a relatively inexpensive
way because when I talk about the 86 you it's around two hundred and fifty
dollars us for that you can go up to three hundred and get a slightly faster
gaming third AC 3100 router and they have an even more expensive option as
well and those gaming routers give you access to some really interesting gaming
features because I'm kind of a geek in case you haven't noticed but anyways all
of the different features on these Asus routers in the end they lead me to be my
number one choice now again any of the four routers that I've talked about here
are router systems that I've talked about they're going to work in your
smart home and they're going to work for a long time you're not really going to
make a bad choice here so let's just go through a bit of a summary here the
arrows are great but I find them a little bit expensive for the coverage
that you're getting and you're probably going to need a lot of them you're
attached to Amazon so I worry a little bit about the data privacy on that side
of thing on the flip side they're a little bit faster than something like
Google Wi-Fi and Google Wi-Fi a little I feel a little bit better about my data
privacy with Google obviously they're going to use data they can get for
advertisements and things like that but in general they've handled my data in
the past with a lot of respect so I appreciate that the Google Wi-Fi knock
there is really the speed throughput and strangely enough the inability to have
802 dot 15.4 even though there are a large leader in that so I wonder if
someday those devices will just be updated to work with that net gears or
me system is massive fast but ultimately very expensive and I think their app and
their you know their management tools aren't as good as the other makers on
this list the final solution here to me is Asus and that AC 86 you I think is
the perfect level for a lot of people and then go aftermarket or utilize an
existing Asus router you have in your home to create a mesh you're not always
going to need the most powerful router as your secondary mesh router as long as
you have a decent router there I think you're going to be able to do just fine
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