Single band, tri-band or quad-band mesh for streamer


In theory or practice is there any advantage to going with multi-band mesh system to support an audio streamer?  More bands equals more money.  Quad-band over a grand.

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Showing 2 responses by carlsbad

????  Pretty sure the extra bands apply only to communication between the base and the satellites. I would be surprised if any streamers have extra bands as they would have to interface with the proprietary mesh system.

Hopefully someone who knows more about wireless will chime in.  

I have read up on it and to the modern internet crowd, that would make me an expert.  It doesn't.  But I can share my experience.

1.  Everyone says, including vendor literature from streamers, that you will get best results if you hard wire it to your router and if that is an easy option, I'd say decision made.

2.  In my case, doors and obstructions make it very hard to get hard wired internet to my streamer.  So I have been running wireless.  I bought a linksys mesh system that says it will cover a house twice the size of mine.  I still had some issues with download speed at times, even though my router is only 20' from my system.   

3.  I put one of the mesh satellites at my streamer and hard wired from the satellite to the streamer and have had no problems at all since.  This seems to be a workable solution. 

My mesh system is triband and as I posted earlier, i think the triband improves communication between the base and the satellites. 

Jerry