Our home network is good and it reaches the whole house, but, there is a weak zone. My home office has access, but, at times the work laptop cannot find the SSID for several minutes when I start it up for the day. When I check the signal strength it shows as low. The issue is I cannot move where the router is and it works for every other location in the house, only the office has low signal strength.
Looking for
- Multiple SSIDs. I want to at least have the work laptop on its own SSID so that nothing can see it even though I use a VPN to connect to work. I prefer the option to have three. One for the wife and myself, one for guests and one dedicated to work. The three SSIDs is what I am running with now and it does work as I don't want any network to see what is running on the other network.
- Tri-Band. For a mesh network I want the devices themselves to chat over their own band and not share the channel with my home network.
- Simple to use and set up. I don't want to jump through hoops to get the thing to start and get configured. The latest device is good and I had it up and running in under 5 minutes and that is the standard I expect from new devices.
- Good configuration software. I don't want to do a deep dive for the basic setup to figure out how to use the advanced features. Again the latest router is a bit better, but, I have to dig to find some options that I needed more accessible.
- Reporting was always a problem area and I just want to see a quick report and then save the output for analysis.
- Reasonable price. I won't mind paying a slight premium, but, if it goes over $300 I will look at other products.
