Consumer focused mesh routers can hardly be tweaked at all. The flip side of easy-to-use is inflexible. As far as I know, Velop, Orbi and the D-Link Covr are the only mesh router systems with a web interface (technically Cover is not a mesh system).īut, every coin has two sides. In June 2017 they added a web interface, one that is similar to the interface on their WRT and Max-Stream routers. When the Linksys Velop system was introduced in January 2017 management of the system required a mobile app. The one exception had been Netgear, their Orbi routers still (as of April 2017) offer a full web interface with the classically large number of features. Most mesh router systems are managed solely with a mobile app are Eero, Google Wifi, Luma, Plume and Ubiquiti AmpliFi. See the Google Wifi page for some critiques of its mobile app. But phones have small screens and thus little room for the many features that legacy routers offered. By then, everyone had a smartphone so management of the router was moved from a web interface to a mobile app. So, when the time came in early 2016 for new mesh routers to appear on the market, hardware vendors took it as an opportunity to make routers more user-friendly by removing 90% of the features. But, these dozens of options are too much for consumers and non-techies to deal with. On the whole, however, I view the complexity as a good thing, as it offers many options for better security. There may well be other terms too.įrom the beginning routers have been complex devices with more configuration options than anyone could possibly understand, myself included. More generically, they may be referred to as Access Points or APs. The other devices have been called Mesh Points (AmpliFi), WiFi Points (Google), Beacons (Eero) and Satellites (Netgear Orbi). Often this main device is physically bigger than the other devices.
There really is no official term, as far as I know. The device that plugs into the modem via Ethernet may be called the router or the base station. With some mesh systems, such as the Linksys Velop, all the devices are exactly the same, but that is the exception not the rule. They are normally sold together as a set of two or three devices. The mesh router system can consist of two, three or more devices. A mesh router differs from older routers in that the mesh is a system of multiple devices that work together.
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