
So, you tell everyone nearby that if they see your son, to let him know to find you. You want to tell your child that you need his help, but you cannot find him. Imagine yourself at the park with friends and family scattered throughout. The WiFi traffic is represented here by the buckets of water. She would give it to the next person, and so forth, until the bucket finally can be poured over the flames by the last man. The man at the lake would fill a bucket with water and pass it on to the woman next to him. When a building is burning, multiple people can form one or more chain-link lines between the lake and the fire. Each node can become an intermediary messenger between other members of the mesh. The mesh node at the farthest end of the house can go on the Internet by 1) directly communicating with the main WiFi router or by 2) talking to another, closer node who then relays the information back and forth between the router and the distant node. Should one be closed, instead of being stranded, you can still reach your destination via another route. If you wanted to drive to the beach, there are a number of streets you could take. It works by having each mesh “ node” - that is part of the mesh network - be connected to as many other ones as possible to cooperatively and efficiently move data between points. It was and still is very expensive to implement and maintain. This technology has been around for some time and had been in use by the enterprise/business world for seamless, wireless access between floors, buildings, and across the entire campus.

This article was originally written as an Amazon product review in late 2018 (with some updates since) with a goal to be as non-technical as possible, then diving deeper into the more intrinsic, technical aspects for the more advanced reader.įor simplicity and to avoid consumer confusion, I will interchangeably refer to WiFi access points found in home devices as “WiFi Routers”.

#UNTANGLE FIREWALL LINKSYS ROUTER REVIEW PRO#
