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by asiachick 1639 days ago
I'm not sure Wifi has anything to do with it but then I have no idea how this stuff works. I have one Meross Smart Plug Mini. It's the only thing that shows up on my router. I have 11 Nanoleaf essentials A19 Bulb (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HPE62ZM/A/nanoleaf-essent...). None of those show up on Wifi so no idea how they work (Bluetooth, Wifi Broadcast)

6 of them are less than 10 feet from the WiFi AP in the same room, and also less than 10ft from an AppleTV (3 are 5ft from it). The other 5 of them are in the next room (so less than 20ft from the AP). in that room I have no problem streaming 5-10 streams of simultaneous video over Wifi to my laptop

AppleTV is on wired network.

All of the lights are slow to respond. The ones on the same room as the AP and the ones away. It doesn't matter. The Meross plug, which is on Wifi, is almost always instant to respond, but, in the 6 months I've owned it it's entirely failed to respond at all 3 times (so once ever 2 months) at which point I go manually unplug it. Plugging it in immediately doesn't fix the issue but plugging it in a few days later seem to reset it.

The whole thing is super frustrating and feels not ready for prime time. I feel duped.