When Your Home Network Outgrows the Router in a Box
There’s a moment in a lot of households when Wi-Fi stops being a single purchase and starts being a project. Maybe it’s a smart-home habit that ballooned to dozens of devices, a work-from-home setup that needs a dead reliable connection in a converted garage, or just the slow realization that the mesh system you bought three years ago still has a “dead zone” no amount of app-fiddling will fix. That’s the moment worth pausing on, because the fix that seems obvious — buy a bigger, newer mesh kit — isn’t always the cheapest or the smartest one anymore.