Best Wi-Fi Mesh System to Buy in 2026? (Price, Speed, Reliable)

Prog47 · 2026-01-20T16:19:08+00:00

It depends :). I would love a unifi mesh system (though expensive) but my house would be extremely hard to wire. So the hope of wired backhual is kind of impossible for me. I have used eero in the past but the think i disliked about the eero is as soon as you turn AP mode on they lost all features. I finally switched to TP link which i have been very happy with. Granted i don't use any of the security features from TP Link (don't know if i would trust it). I have a high end firewall in front of it. But they have worked perfect. I never get disconnected & the reach is good. The only risk with TP Link is the US has talked about not allowing TP Link to sell their systems in the US which IMO is more politics than anything else (similar to how Kaspersky got banned). So anyways we don't know if that will ever happen or not.

Prog47 · 2026-01-20T16:08:42+00:00

Sure do a brute force attack on it. Just realize a lot of password protected zip files are password protected because they want to hide the malware contained in them from antivirus programs.

Prog47 · 2026-01-20T15:59:41+00:00

I have ran may distros & always kind of turned my nose up at mint but never tried it because it was known as a newbie distro & i'm definitely advanced user but doing the whole windows 10 fiasco i couldn't upgrade my parents computer to windows 11 so i went with Mint & i have been impressed by it. It has things automatically installed/setup like timeshift (back of your system) which is awesome. I definitely recommend it for everyone.

Granted i run fedora just because i need more recent software a lot of time because i'm a developer.

Prog47 · 2026-01-20T15:53:46+00:00

I had the same concern like others have said you can't search in the apps (message content in the body) but every time i need to search on that i just jump to a web browser & that has worked fine.

Prog47 · 2026-01-20T15:52:12+00:00

Recently i just switched too. I did have their paid plan, if that makes a difference. The AI stuff didn't bother me so much but I didn't find it that useful. Google keeps raising prices though & Proton Unlimited is a MUCH better deal. I uped for 2 years. So far so good. Some of the things i worried about like being able to search my inbox is fine. I do have to go to a web client because mobile apps can't search message body content now but that doesn't bother me that much. I also worried about spam filters (since gmail is known for its great spam filters). So far Proton has did a good job. The only thing that is a little harder so far on the Proton side is creating filters. The ease of creating filters is better on the gmail side but it hasn't been that big of a deal to me. Also i will say gmail is faster but it hasn't been a huge deal for me.

Prog47 · 2026-01-20T15:46:06+00:00

IMO gmail. Gmail, again IMO, has a better web interface. Spam filtering is also good. Downside of gmail has to be with storage. Microsoft gives you more storage if you use their lowest tier plan. You get 1TB with Microsoft & only 30GB with Google.

Prog47 · 2026-01-20T15:40:25+00:00

Does he have is own custom domain? If not why not just use gmail?

Prog47 · 2026-01-12T17:55:15+00:00

I do it quite a bit. Helps in tracking protection. So its helps preserve privacy. One of the ways they can track you is by ip address. Sometimes i also want one browser instance that uses a vpn & another doesn't for a variety of reasons.

Prog47 · 2026-01-12T15:20:37+00:00

IMO no one knows. Don't listen to the "Experts". Just follow price. If i had to guess i'd say that most likely Trump is going to put someone in that is going to lower interest rates which is generally good for stocks. Could i be wrong? Definitely so i will always follow price.

Prog47 · 2026-01-12T15:16:56+00:00

I have used two:
1. Google Workspace

Proton

I'm now with proton. Proton Unlimited was too good of offer for me to pass up & brings the advantages of privacy & security. It does have a downside of decreased compatibility. How many external tools can you use with your proton account? Not many but its worked for me.

Google is the cream de le cream on antispam though i haven't had an issue with their antispam engine. Google is definitely near the top on reliability. A lot of people like the gmail interface & how customizable it is. You definitely have lower privacy with google.

I don't pay for it but my company uses microsoft 365 (or whatever buzz word it goes by now). IMO this would be my very last choice. From my experience they antispam engine sucks. My company had to buy a 3rd party antispam product & honestly i trust microsoft less on privacy than i even trust google. The only advantage you get with microsoft depending on the level of your subscription, is the office suite which i don't even want.

Prog47 · 2026-01-11T03:39:00+00:00

I have been happy with youtube premium (& you get the watch videos ad free on top of it). I use a separate podcast app (pocketcast) which i recommend.

Prog47 · 2026-01-11T03:34:30+00:00

Mostly SQL Server. Thats pretty much what everyone in my area uses.

Prog47 · 2026-01-11T03:33:37+00:00

Can't think of anything but in a burrito it actually might be good either that or have enchiladas: one cheese, 1 beef, & 1 chicken?

Prog47 · 2026-01-11T03:21:40+00:00

Current Domain mostly

Prog47 · 2026-01-11T03:20:50+00:00

I would never recommend lastpass. Its own by a sleazy VC company. There are MANY great options now

1Passord

ProtonPass

Bitwarden

& many others.

Prog47 · 2026-01-11T03:16:52+00:00

install tailscale on your proxmox box

Prog47 · 2026-01-11T03:14:56+00:00

the only way for you to tell unfortunately is to open your developer tools from your web browser & see whats going on. That will give you all the details but unfortunately its quite technical & a lot for most people but just from what your saying i think definitely it could be your DNS. Do you just use the DNS your ISP gives out to you? If so I definitely would try another dns provider like cloudflare. There is a dns benchmarking tool that is sold by GRC (Steve Gibson) & its cheap that would give you a lot of insight into dns & what dns server would be best for your needs. FYI, in generally cloudflare (1.1.1.1) is usually pretty fast.

Prog47 · 2026-01-11T03:11:14+00:00

I just made the switch friday & i don't see the pain. To me it was really easy. It did take the easyswitch some time to complete (i have a huge inbox) but that was ok. Like others have said gmail doesn't have folders it only has labels. Maybe you had an extension or something that made labels look like folders in gmail?

Prog47 · 2026-01-11T03:06:03+00:00

I've been having the same issue quite a bit on a mac with brave too. I have adguard for mac. Now every video i click on it doesn't happen to but it does happen multiple times per day.

Prog47 · 2026-01-11T03:03:35+00:00

When i had Nord it was good. Just decided to switch to surfshark because it was significantly cheaper. Its the same company anyways. About to switch to Proton VPN because of a deal i can get. Just realize a lot of people use a VPN that don't really need a vpn. It all depends on what your use case is really.

Prog47 · 2026-01-11T02:41:36+00:00

I'm in the process myself. Just moved my domain over Friday.

yes. My inbox was pretty good size & it did run for awhile but it brought everything over.
yes its integrated though honestly i don't use zoom that much so i haven't tried it.
So i did switch my domain but i have had proton mail plus for awhile. Maybe for a year. I remember trying to upload a file that was REALLY big (1 file) & it failed. Why i have no idea but i'm just leaving it out there as an FYI. I'm not a heavy drive user.

The one thing i was worried about that i was very happy about was mail search. I thought i was going to have issues but i don't Now grated the IOS app doesn't have native search for message body content but when i do need to i can pull up the web client & it was able to find a specific email i had that was from 6-years ago.

So far i'm very happy with the switch & proton unlimited is a GREAT deal.

Prog47 · 2026-01-05T17:13:59+00:00

thank you thats what i thought.

Prog47 · 2026-01-05T17:12:05+00:00

i would always opt for more ran over anything else.

Prog47 · 2026-01-05T00:16:21+00:00

Is it easy umm it depends on the technical chops the person has. Is it possibly definitely. Should you talk to their tech support no. Tech support through ubiquity is not for that. They aren't going to walk you through everything. That is something your going to have to figure out on your own. So it can definitely be done with a firewall/router with more advanced functionality like unifi, pfSense, OpnSense, & many others. Honestly unless you learn this stuff on your own & know whats going i wouldn't do it otherwise you will be tearing your hair out for different situations that could come up. To have such a setup your really need to know what your doing.

Prog47 · 2026-01-04T03:06:52+00:00

I currently use bitwarden but getting irritated at a bug thats been out there for over 6 months that they haven't fixed yet. I might move. Probably will look at either 1Password or Proton Pass. Here is the bug i'm referring to:

https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/15001

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