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Mesh network versus a simple Wi-Fi extender

In anyone’s experience, does implementing a pricier Mesh network yield any sonic advantages to just using a good Wi-Fi extender and running a good Ethernet cable from that?  From people who have very good streamer setups it seems like using a simple but good Wi-Fi extender from TP-Link etc. is more than fine.  Thoughts?

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Me and my neighbor both have ~2500 square feet homes.  We both tried extenders.  He was not  having problems with audio but his PCs dropping off.  I was having audio drop outs.   Both our experiences with extenders sucked.  He went to a mesh network and solved his PC dropouts. I followed suit.   My audio now is for the most part solid 😎.  Having a mesh node sitting near my main rig and hard wiring my streaming server to that solved my stability problems and I did not experience any degradation in SQ.   Note:  My HT, and about half the other devices in the house are hard wired to the base node or the router/modem.  

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@mitch2 

I assume if you only had one device you could run the hardwired output directly from the satellite into that one device for the same result?

Thats what I do.  Main rig has a SGC Sonic Transport hard wired to a satalite node. Works great.  The base node in my office has about a 20 foot run to a switch with various devices attached. 

The new Asus ZenWifi comes with 3 ethernet ports but not sure if that is on each node or just the base.  

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