[PaulHoule]

My understanding is that WiFi mesh networks are a scam. If you really want good WiFi performance the steps are, in order:

(1) get every device that is on WiFi that you can possibly get off WiFi and on Ethernet

(2) if your cheap WiFi router isn't doing it for you then, get some UniFi hubs and wire them up on Ethernet

https://ui.com/us/en/wifi

The more hops you send data over wireless the more interference it makes, the more chances there are to lose data from packet loss. Look, I understand it, the wives' union has obliterated home theater and people just want to have it all like Apple where it "just works" and you never have to run any wires -- except note that Apple has gotten out of the WiFi business because that ideology just can't deliver WiFi that works and Apple knows it.

[duxup]

I don't think your description here makes any sense.

[PaulHoule]

That's exactly what is wrong with the WiFi market. Wired Ethernet is completely obscure to people today. So of course people are watching TV over their WiFi and wondering why it is buffering all the time.