Big streaming services use distributed servers. They likely have a copy of their streaming services in each city or even in your local ISP’s data center. This saves everyone significant bandwidth costs. A few hundred TB of storage for their most demanded content is cheap money.
StanleyDards
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To be clear, a switch will not give you these things.
- no additional data.
- no additional IP addresses.
If your home router is “dropping bands”, it is likely that the power adapter has weakened and can no longer deliver enough amps to the device to keep the radios operating properly, or not enough power to keep the CPU from losing bits and crashing (LEDs on, but not reliably functional).
I’d replace the power adapter with one that can deliver more amps. These adapters have to deal with every power transient and are often powered up for years. And they are often mediocre.
With that I’d go with something like the Deco X20. They are affordable and support wired backhaul. They are easy to install and are very hands off. It is easy to add more nodes.
Only two radios within each unit, but you won’t have the mesh wireless backhaul “using up” the 3rd radio.
How big is your house, what is it made of, how fast is your service, how many users in the house?
Are you an advanced user, or set-and-forget type?
“MoCA” allows you to repurpose legacy coax tv cabling for computer networking.