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D-Link COVR-AX1800

The D-Link COVR-AX1800 is a whole home mesh WIFI 6 router kit. It is designed for homes that are device dense and is perfect for 4K streaming, VR gaming, video calling and keeping all your smart home devices connected.

Product Features

• It has dual bandwidth that can offer up to 1.8 combined gigabits per second speed.
• On the 2.4 gigahertz range – it is 90% faster, and on the 5 gigahertz range – it is 38% faster, than your conventional devices.
• It also offers up to 4 times more devices than AC WIFI.
• It is easy and it connects to your existing router or gateway. However many comes in your kit is already pre-paired, so it is just plug and play.
• It is scale-able and lets you add as many other D-Link mesh wifi devices.
• The 3 router kit can cover up to 740 square meters or 8000 square feet.
• The router has a feature called Smart-steering, which connects you to the strongest signal while moving between rooms.
• Another feature is OFDMA, which takes small data packets which are destined for multiple devices and they are transmitted together, so they never have to queue up again. This is perfect for smart homes which are filled for bandwidth hungry IOT devices battling for speed.
• This device also have a voice control feature, which makes it easy for your whole home WIFI networking experience (connecting to Amazon Alexa and Google home).
• These routers can be controlled from the D-Link app. This is good for parents because you can control when your kids connect and what they connect to.

Intended target and Retail info

This allows devices in your network to have faster speeds, greater coverage and a more reliable connection. While traditional routers broadcast WIFI from a single point, these mesh WIFI systems have multiple access points and eliminate dead zones and provide uninterrupted WIFI throughout your home.

So this device works well for smart homes and people who want an uncomplicated setup which covers every square foot of your home.

This kit is available from Gwizz for R5500 and it also retails on Takealot for R7200.

Benefits of having a mesh network

• It offers faster speed and greater network coverage.
• It is one network throughout your entire home. Meaning it is simplistic, easy to setup and use and is not as complicated. It saves you the effort of having switches everywhere and running cables throughout your home.

Personal thoughts

If I were given the perfect opportunity, I would actually scrap our entire elaborate network and just go mesh. This offers us the same connection as our current network setup but so much more easier. Although they are connecting to each other and doing whatever they need to it also offering us the 4 port switch at the back of the router.

Conclusion

I have really enjoyed playing around with this WIFI kit and unfortunately could not harness it to its full potential because we do not have too much of smart home devices here in our house. Within time we might move to a mesh network or even better.

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