Engineers have seriously researched and revamped the Wi-Fi environment in a detached house.

Kanno

Hello, this is Sugano, General Manager of the System Development Department.

This time it's a private little story.

Recently, complaints from my family such as "Wi-Fi is slow and disconnected" have increased, and the remoteness has increased the importance of the home internet environment.I decided to rethink my network.The following is a list of the most common problems with the

There may be few people who can understand all the contents because there are technical terms,If you can give me an idea of how I reviewed itI think.

The environment before revision is as follows.

The reason why I use Cisco products is because I wanted to play around with Cisco products at the time of purchase.

Also, the usage situation of the Kanno family is like this.

Now, let's explain the steps I took to review the Wi-Fi in order.

Kanno

"I want to know the points when choosing a Wi-Fi product immediately because the explanation is good"the person whosummaryPlease refer to the

First, I investigated | 4 causes of poor internet environment

When I investigated why the internet environment was bad, the causes were the following four points.

I think 1 is simply lifespan.

Problems are 2 and 3. Regarding 2, since my house is a detached house with many rooms, I basically set the connection to 2.4GHz and assumed communication across the wall.

However, as the number of families increased and the number of connections increased, it became 2.4GHz.No throughput (speed) at allThat's right.

Also, this was my lack of study,Beamforming and MIMO are ac technologies, so the problem is that you can't get any of these benefits at 2.4GHz.It was.

Regarding 3, it seems that the CPU becomes 100% and the throughput drops from 1G to 200M when the NAT setting is set.

If NAT is inserted, performance will not come out, Fatal as FW...?

besides thatEven changing the LAN side IP from the default ClassA (10.0.0.0/8) to ClassC (192.168.1.0/24) cannot be set with the GUIThere was also a problem with , and I thought that this model should be replaced.

Regarding 4, it's a literacy issue, but if you don't do this, AP won't switch between 1F and 2F.

I was on the 2nd floor and was told it was slow, so when I looked it up, I was still connected to the Wi-Fi on the 1st floor. This problem seems to happen to my surrounding acquaintances, and I thought it was impossible to solve this problem.

If there is no problem 4, the configuration to insert a repeater comes into view, but if you try to solve 4I came to the conclusion that there is no choice but to build a mesh Wi-FiThe following is a list of the most common problems with the

So I compared some products to buy a new one.

8 manufacturers compared this time

In conclusion, I bought ASUS ZenWiFi.

Below are the manufacturers we compared.

The market situation was generally similar to that of smartphones.

Below are details about the features of each product.

Is the cost performance made in China overwhelming? however…

if,If you are not particular about the country of origin, TP-Link is overwhelming in price and performance, so it is recommendedIt is.

just,TP-Link's mesh needs some attentionI felt it.

First of all, TP-Link has two types of mesh systems: "Deco series mesh, which is a dedicated mesh machine" and "OneMesh, an original mesh system".

And OneMesh has the following features.

So basically, I think it's an ant if it matches the following scene.

just,Possibly the cheapest way to build a mesh Wi-Fi if it meets your requirementsCan be done.

I was torn between choosing ASUS or TP-Link until the end.

After all, my stance is to avoid products made in China.TP-Link excludedThe following is a list of the most common problems with the

Reason,There are concerns that the AP mode cannot be used, Chinese products are susceptible to political influence like HUAWEI and TikTok, and information leakage like Lenovo.It's for

Made in Japan gives a half-hearted impression

All the products made in Japan are half-finished, so I stopped using them.

First, Buffalo'sAirStationConnect does not support Wi-Fi6so I passed.

Next, NEC'sAterm has poor performance on routers that support meshSo I passed.

There are many pretty good models of routers other than mesh.

I've been buying the Aterm series for a long time, including the one that broke this time.The Aterm series itself has a sense of reliability, but all performance and functions are half-bakedIt was.

Elecom was so-so,There is only one model that supports it, and versatility is lowso I passed.

Made in America was slightly off the mark

Second, it's made in the USA.

firstGoogle's Nest Wifi. I was actually going to buy this first.

However, the release is old as 2019It's not compatible with Wi-Fi6, and it's dual-band instead of tri-band even though it can't set up a wired backhaul.I stopped buying it because of this.

I believe that a new model compatible with Wi-Fi 6 tri-band will be released in the near future.

NETGEARteethPioneer of mesh Wi-Fi, highly rated Orbi seriesIt seems that.

However, the price is too high for two units, over 70,000.

Linksysis the only manufacturer that adopts a unified plan that allows meshes to be assembled by different manufacturers called EasyMesh.

However, at present, only Linksys is compatible, soIn reality, like other manufacturers, only our company can respondhas become

Also, after Linksys was acquired by Cisco, it was sold to Belkin again.Exclusion due to lack of security in the company itselfI did.

All the American Wi-Fis I researched this time were not bad, but they didn't meet my requirements this time.

Buy Balanced ASUS AiMesh

And ASUS was left as a candidate, but if you write like this, it feels like you chose it by elimination method ...

However, ASUS's AiMesh was very attractive, which was one of the major factors in deciding to purchase it.

ASUSAiMesh is used in almost all ASUS routersThe company has been

in short,ASUS can mesh with any combination of routersThat's right.

that's whyMesh can be assembled by combining products that suit your situation, is pretty good.

You can reassemble the mesh later by buying more routers or replacing them.

So, I bought 2 ZenWiFi AX (XD4) as the main router for the living room, and 2 Lyra Trio for the 2 bedrooms where there is no wired LAN because they are used infrequently.

It is quite reasonable at about 30,000 yen for 4 unitsIt is.

By the way, my house is a complete two-family house, so there are two living rooms and two bedrooms.

Also, ASUSI really liked the smartphone ZenFone3, and I've been taking care of motherboards for over 20 years.The following is a list of the most common problems with the

So, one of the reasons is that I like ASUS in the first place.

[Summary] About detached Wi-Fi environment

The following five points were the selection points for me to purchase Wi-Fi products this time.

Even if you use ASUS,If the required bandwidth is large and a wired LAN cannot be used, it is better to use the XT8, which is a higher-end tri-band model, instead of the dual-band XD4.It is.

But it will double the price...

The above is the content of the Internet environment improvement of the Kanno family.

This article was originally based on an internal Slack chat.

After that, several people consulted me about the Internet environment, but first of all, I think it would be better to keep the following points in mind.

Well, this is the same as when you go to a real estate agent to look for a house or go to a mass retailer to buy a home appliance.

Without this information, we cannot give you the correct advice.

This article is just a story about creating a Wi-Fi environment that suits the situation of "Suganoya", but I hope it will be helpful to someone.