Mesh Wi-Fi seems to be the most preferred solution to address poor Wi-Fi these days. Mesh systems claim to cover your entire house in a seamless “mesh” of wireless connectivity, eliminating the dreaded dead zones. While they’re perfectly capable of doing so, most people don’t make the most of their mesh nodes. They continue to use wireless backhaul between the nodes and the main router, bottlenecking their Wi-Fi speeds. This is the default way of using a mesh network, but it’s also the worst. Unless you have an expensive, tri-band mesh system for dedicated wireless backhaul, you can achieve maximum Wi-Fi speeds only by connecting your nodes to the router with Ethernet. This wired connection handles the backhaul traffic between the nodes and the router, while the nodes themselves are free to maintain a fast and reliable connection with your devices. You no longer need to settle for half of your Wi-Fi bandwidth just because your mesh Wi-Fi doesn’t have a third band.