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by Apreche 3549 days ago
You can tell this product is made by people who live in suburban McMansions. In a 1 BR NYC apartment, you have no problems with wifi coverage.
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> You can tell this product is made by people who live in suburban McMansions. In a 1 BR NYC apartment, you have no problems with wifi coverage.

More relevantly, for instead of by (though its quite possible both are true), but, sure, in a small urban apartment, coverage isn't going to be your big issue, and you aren't going to need a set of routers forming a mesh network.

OTOH, lots of people don't live in small urban apartments and use the internet.

So they didn't build this product for your use case. Is that supposed to mean that they can't try to solve the problems that others have?
I live in a small house in SF, and I have wifi problems. Plaster and lathe sure adsorbs all that wifi signal.

Such a weird and negative comment. Are you alright? I mean, such negativity surely has got to come from somewhere?

Or, just not 1BR NYC apartments. So, the majority of Americans.
To be fair, if you live in a masonry building or even a particularly thick-walled reinforced concrete building, you might have trouble covering all of the rooms of a 2-3 bedroom apartment with a single AP.
Have you been to Silicon Valley? It may be a very wealthy area, but you wouldn't know it from the square footage counts of what people live in.
So split it with a couple of neighbors...
They do sell a 1-pack, although in that configuration really the only benefit is automatic security updates.
You won't have problems with wifi coverage. You will have problems with massive interference.