By Matt Hanson
If you’re struggling to get Wi-Fi reception in certain areas of your house, then BT’s new Whole Home Wi-Fi setup could be for you. As the name suggests, this is a set of devices that should ensure your entire home is covered when it comes to wireless networking.
It achieves this by including not just one single router that will sit in a room and struggle to transmit Wi-Fi far and wide, but two extra devices that you can dot around your house to guarantee blanket coverage. They all transmit the same Wi-Fi network, creating a ‘mesh’ that allows you to seamlessly switch from device to device easily.
Mesh networking is becoming increasingly popular – Google’s foray into home networking with its Google Wifi devices utilizes this concept.
Design and setup
As we mentioned earlier, BT refers to its Wi-Fi units as ‘discs’, and it’s easy to see why. Each one is smallish, white, flat and circular, and look rather nice compared to many other routers. They each come with rounded metal stands, and all the units are identical as well, so there’s no ‘base’ unit that’s designed especially for plugging into your modem – any of the units will do.
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Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac