 All right while we're on the subject of mesh listener Steve asks a question he says uh it looks like it's time to replace my neck gear or be and Move on to something else and I thought I would seek out your thoughts ASAP on what I should use as a mesh For my home. He says, uh, you know, I've got a couple of Mac minis a couple of iPads a couple Apple TVs And I a couple of iPhones a disk station some other smart Wi-Fi enabled devices He's got about 50 devices all told and he just wants to make sure he's got good coverage you know my My feelings on this have not changed much in the last few years Back to when I was obsessing over it monthly and you looking into mesh stuff. I'm still looking into mesh stuff pretty regular We just don't talk about it because the the landscape has has solidified my favorite to mesh platforms are plume and Eero and the reason for that is that they in their own ways and differently from one another Do smart things with meshing and what I mean by that is When you're connecting when your iPhone connects to a network and there are three access points With the same SSID, right? So you've got you know, my network is your SSID and your iPhone sees three access points with My network there because you have a mesh network and there's there's three points your iPhone is the Final your iPhone makes the decision as to which one of those three it would connect to now it looks at signal strength and Generally, we'll just decide based on that because it doesn't have a whole lot of information from the network A smart but but the problem is a mesh network knows a whole lot more than your iPhone does a mesh network can know Okay, well, yeah, I've got three access points But one of them is super overloaded and this other one that's not terribly far away from from his iPhone Would be much better to connect to and so a smart mesh is able to do some things to either provide hints to the iPhone to encourage it to choose the right network or Some of them even go so far as to do MAC address blocking and say, okay I want that iPhone on access point two instead of access point three so I'm gonna block it from access point three and force it to choose a new path and then it will choose to and so all of these things are what I call making a mesh smarter and Plume I think plume still does it the best out of all of them And Eero is not too far behind They are both cloud managed which is part of what makes this Intelligence happen. They have databases of Device types so they know, okay This is the right way to provide hints to an iPhone for you know, the right kind of roaming This is the right way to provide hints to a Samsung phone for roaming and those things have been different over the years I don't know if they're still different but every device has has its own little nuances and so the cloud management of plume and Eero really does Contribute to what makes them my preference and that's that intelligence of the mesh You will pay more for plume and Eero although plume. I see that you I think you can't even get their super pods right now Somebody pointed out to me so it's possible. They've got something new coming and I don't say that to be coy I don't know anything But you know when usually when things go off the market There's there's a reason for that and I think we'll probably see something Some evolution from them at least that's that's my hope for the reasoning there But the the Eero stuff and you know, I would get the Wi-Fi 6 stuff or you can get the latest and greatest with the in the AX and all that But but that would be my my recommendation if the pricing or availability there is not suitable for you The TP link deco line is absolutely my favorite You know, it's my third choice and it's my favorite, you know, not super expensive choice I don't want to call it the budget choice because that might That's that is the right word to use but it might send the wrong message. It like it's a fantastic Router it has some of the smarts not all of them But it does a great job and TP links really committed to it. So at least they seem to be So that those would be my three options the the plume super pods and the Eero both sort of holding a tie for for first place and then the and then the TP link deco for you know for second place if you will