what's up guys john here again from my home tech review i said earlier in my
welcome video that I'll been doing some extra videos coming up about the Assis sorry
the Arris surfboard SB 6190 and the plume Wi-Fi system so today's video
is about the plume Wi-Fi system so I want to talk about it it's an amazing
product it it performs really really well and let's go ahead and get down and
dive down and see what we're looking at alright guys so here it is the plume
Wi-Fi system now it looks kind of small that's because it only plugs into your
wall so it goes right into an electrical outlet and when you're setting it up for
a router system you actually plug your Ethernet cable in here which connects
back to your either your cable modem or maybe a network switch so from there
what it does is this one that's plugged in becomes your actual hub so now this
becomes your Wi-Fi router where everything is going to route into so as
you can see here in the box I actually have the six pieces which is about three
hundred and twenty nine dollars currently on plumewifi.com so but I'm
currently using it on my Wi-Fi system so I don't have them all down here but
in theory how this works is when you plug it in and you have the app which I will
show you later app and you set it all up for your home network actually learns
everything about your different devices that are connected to it what happens is
when you're connecting through one of these throughout your house you actually
there's five different channels in it so these five different channels you can
actually send many different devices through them so if you say had all six
like I have currently at four in my house because my house isn't that big so
I don't need you know six devices to run my different equipment so but in theory
how it works is every single one of the use has five different channels and
as three five gigahertz and two 2.4 gigahertz so things are going to work on
your five bigger channels are like your cell phone your TV's your Playstation
your Xboxes and things of that nature mostly 2.4 gigahertz will be like your
tablet's your laptops and your computers so basically let's say you have three
devices that are in your living room and you have two that are in your bedroom
and you have let's say two more that are in your guest bedroom okay so all those
different devices are working on your so now what's going to happen is it's going
to send a signal to the nearest pod and then that pod they're going to send it
to another pod that's nearby that isn't using a channel so it sends it through
that open channel that nothing that nothing is getting bogged down on so
when it finds basically throughout all of these to find is the least amount of
traffic on whatever channel is open and it sends it all the way back to your
router which is one of these that's plugged into your cable modem so in it
then your router interprets everything and it sends it back through the
internet or put it back to your Smart Hub or whatever you're using so in a
sense if you have all six of these running you've got 30 different channels
to send through if you have multiple different channels to send through
there's I think I looked on the site there's about 20 different frequencies
that we use here in the US and it finds you know whatever frequency is available
and it sends it through one of those five channels so if you're thinking
about it that's that's quite a bit of traffic that this that this little pod
can handle by itself now another cool feature about is it
intuitively learns how your house operates so everything that is connected
to it it learns everything about it and it will automatically divert based on
how much traffic or how much signal strength you are using to that device
and will divert it through all these and it learns how it operates
so it works more efficiently now with your typical mesh networks that you know
I'm calling this it falls to the category mesh networks but like I said in my welcome
video it's not quite a mesh networks mesh networks use one Wi-Fi Channel
so they don't use five different types of channels so this can handle a lot of
devices all at once so if you're looking into like I said if you're looking into
smart home automation smart home automation uses a lot of different
devices so if you're trying to send you know all your devices through one Wi-Fi
channel on your mesh network then it could get bogged down you could lose
signal strength you know according to other devices that you're using
throughout the house so if you're using a lot of different devices it's going to
bog down your mesh network and it's not gonna work as fast but that's the
advantage of this this will make sure that you have the best best channel
strength sorry excuse me the best network strength that you can get
through here because while walking through your house there's no signal
degradation because if you have enough of you spread out to your house you have
an excellent signal strength no matter what now the difference is is the
further you get away from the initial router wherever it is in your house the
slower your internet speed gets but through testing and I'll show you on the
app later as I walk through the house through testing you actually at the
beginning here I run about 200 megabyte plan so right at right next to it I'm
getting about 226 on average so I get a little bit more than what I pay for
which is awesome but the furthest point in my house which
is back in my master bedroom which is the furthest point away I get about 80
megabytes so you know things that Netflix and you know like Hulu and your
cell phones I think that that's that's enough to handle that so and it sends it
back and the more it sends it back through the network and the more that it
gets closer to the hub the faster it gets so it gets back to the internet a
lot faster and you get a much higher response time I've been using this for
about three weeks now since I've ordered my Plume system and I've been trying to
overload it in I actually I can't I don't have enough devices in the house
right now to overload it and it's it's it's working fantastically like before
when I had just a regular router you know on one corner of the house that you
know I was trying to spread out through the house I couldn't get signal back in
my bedroom so we continuously you know drop my Hulu
videos on my TV continuously drop my signal strength does get maybe it would
fluctuate between one bar and two bars so you know I was looking to upgrade and
I am extremely happy with this product this product is actually fantastic and I
would recommend it to anybody especially you know if you have like a family of
six like I have who it's got devices throughout the house you know tablets
and cell phones and video game systems and TVs and are running in computers
that are on and laptops and all that stuff everybody is using some kind of
device all the time this this can handle anything that I've thrown at it so it's
a fantastic product you know I I recommend anybody looking to get a
better WiFi network to get this system I will be testing future Wi-Fi
systems in the future no just give me honest reviews and how they work and
know maybe they do work as good as this cuz I haven't I haven't done you know or
Orbi and Netgear sorry Netgear is or we I haven't done you know like Google home
or anything like that so in the future I'll be doing reviews on those but so
far with this product this is fantastic and it's 100% worth of money so I
recommend it to you and anybody looking to get a better mesh network this is it
right here oh and one thing I forgot to mention
about the Ethernet port so anywhere that you are in your house you can actually
plug a hard line into here if you you know want to use a hard line for
something so say you do have like in your son's room he's got his own
PlayStation and he's a little bit further away from the house he needs a
little bit more signal boost what you can do is you can plug an ethernet cable
into your plug it into your ps4 or whatever game system that you use and
you can use it as a hard line so you won't have to worry about signal
strength during all that you just get straight connection to it and that's a
pretty cool feature that I thought that was available to it as well so this
won't actually turned into a router you know if you plug into it it'll just send
this it'll just send the internet speed through the line instead of over-the-air
so I just wanted to point that out to you guys and
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