Over the past three years, mesh routers — which allow you to combine two, three, or even more routers into a single network to blanket your home with Wi-Fi — have become increasingly popular. But they’ve all had one major limitation: you have to buy all of your routers from the same company. That means if you ever wanted or needed to switch brands, you’d have to buy every unit over again.
But that may be about to change. The Wi-Fi Alliance, which oversees the Wi-Fi standard, is introducing a new standard called Easy Mesh, which will allow router manufacturers to make mesh routers that work with mesh routers from other companies. As long as both routers support Easy Mesh, you’ll be able to put them on the same network.
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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/5/14/17346696/easy-mesh-wifi-alliance-router-standard
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https://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-new-wi-fi-standard-could-let.html
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