Midia inkbook 8 mobileread6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Not only does the tablet come in HP’s now-standard black – sorry, Ash Silver – aluminum frame with copious gold trim, but the firm has naturally upgraded the tablet’s internals. Well on a roll with its fresh-looking Spectre line of high-end laptops and tablets, HP has at last given the treatment to the HP Spectre x. The post Linksys Velop review appeared first on Gigarefurb Refurbished Laptops News. In the same far-range position where the Home Hub 5 gave 9.3Mb/s, the Velop boosted speed to a steady and reliable 300Mb/s.Ī powerline kit with built-in Wi-Fi is a cheaper alternative for most people, but the convenience of having a single Wi-Fi network could make the Velop (or the other mesh network systems) more attractive to you. However, it’s when you add a second Velop node that the real gains are seen. With one Velop node connected to the BT Home Hub it produced an average speed of 450Mb/s in the same room, which is what we’d expected from a device in this price range. The signal can be so unreliable that we’ve resorted to powerline adaptors to provide a wired connection to PCs far away. However, this drops to a mere 9.3Mb/s a couple of rooms away through walls and doors. Linksys Velop: PerformanceĪs a reference point, our BT Home Hub 5 provides a speed of 93.8Mb/s to devices located in the same room. There’s no equivalent feature in rival systems. The highlight here is the ability to prioritise up to three devices for maximum bandwidth and performance, which would be useful if you have a particular PC or tablet or laptop that needs good performance for streaming video or playing games. There’s no browser interface available so that more experienced users can configure the Velop from a PC or Mac, and apart from the ability to create a guest network, or to change the network name and password, there’s not a lot of configuration options available in the app at all. The app initially uses Bluetooth to connect directly to each node and configure it for you, and the app then checks to confirm that the Velop nodes have successfully connected to the Internet before you switch all your devices over to the new network.īut, as we’ve seen with some of the Velop’s rivals, the simplicity of the app does have limitations. Somewhat annoyingly, the Velop app – available for iOS and Android – forces you to provide an email address and password in order to set up an account with Linksys before you can even start to set up the Velop itself.īut once that’s done, the actual set-up process is very straightforward. The nodes are all identical, so they all have two Ethernet ports in the base that you can use for wired connections, along with the Wi-Fi features. The Velop devices are attractively designed, with each node being shaped like a little white ivory tower. There’s also a kit with three nodes available for a hefty £499 from Currys, which seems pretty steep, given that the three-piece BT Whole Home only costs £299. ![]() Of course, it is a bang-up-to-date router that provides tri-band 802.11ac on 2.4GHz and two 5GHz bands with 2×2 MIMO and a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports.Ī pack with two nodes costs £349 from Currys, which is a little less expensive than the two-piece Netgear Orbi (£370). You can buy a single ‘node’ for £199 from Currys, which is quite pricey given that it effectively just acts as a straightforward 802.11ac router. You have three options when purchasing the Velop. Just remember that, like most of its rivals, the Velop is only a router – it doesn’t include a modem for Internet access, so you’ll need to connect one of the Velop units to the existing modem/router that provides your broadband connection at home. Like its rivals, the Velop uses multiple devices – rather than just a single router – which you can place in different rooms in order to establish a really strong and reliable Wi-Fi network throughout your entire home. We’ve seldom seen a new(ish) technology throw up so many new products in the space of a few short weeks, but ‘mesh networking’ has really taken off since the end of 2016.įollowing on from the Netgear Orbi, Devolo Gigagate and BT’s Whole Home Wi-Fi, the latest new arrival is the oddly-named Velop from Linksys. ![]()
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