[Leica] Epsom P800 Update

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Thanks for that bit of info, Brian. I live in a Faraday Cage and the 
internal signal is appalling. Mesh looks appealing. It's sounds a 
perfect job to be delegated to my youngest son, maybe this time next 
year, depending on developments.
Douglas


On 23/04/2018 01:47, Brian Reid wrote:
> On 2018-04-22 15:49, Robert Baron via LUG wrote:
>> Do you have an opinion on these new 'Mesh' routers?
>
> Mesh routers are routers that can be configured into a mesh.
>
> A mesh is a collection of 2 or more routers that are aware of each 
> other's existence and hand off data to one another. So if you have a 
> laptop that you turn on nearby to Router A, and it assigns you and IP 
> address, and you carry the laptop to be in the territory of Router B, 
> it can keep using the same IP address.
>
> I don't have mesh at my house. I have isolated routers. This means 
> that if I am watching a video on my laptop and then carry it with me 
> to answer the front door, the video suffers a 2-second outage while 
> the laptop negotiates with the new router.
>
> But I don't watch videos on my laptop, and if I carry it to another 
> part of the house I don't mind a bit having a 2-second outage.
>
> I use Ubiquiti Unifi routers, which I think are great, but I wouldn't 
> recommend them to anyone who isn't an IT pro. They are pretty hard to 
> set up, and the manuals suck. But wow do they work well when you 
> finally get them set up.
>
> They don't mesh. Future models probably will.
>
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