Discover the Best Local Area Network for Your Smart Home

If you’ve entered the smart home terrain, the pressure on your home network has substantially increased. What was once a handful of connected devices may now range from 20 to 200 and more. If you haven’t upgraded your local area network since beginning your automated journey in Hartford, CT, you’ve undoubtedly experienced home network congestion. 

Like the traffic that builds up on the highway during rush hour, the congestion manifests as bandwidth issues or too many devices connected at the same time. And this creates latency issues, the slowing down of your network as it brakes to make sure it doesn’t hit the car or, in this case, the data packet in front of it.

Some of the main bandwidth hogs inherent in today’s luxury smart homes are 4K and 8K HDR TVs and streaming services. Video conferencing calls also use significant bandwidth. Online gaming and security systems with smart cameras take up more than their share of the internet highway.

Fortunately, there are solutions that ensure fast, reliable, and secure home networks. Two of the common solutions are a mesh Wi-Fi system and hardwiring. Here, we’ll explore the benefits of each one.