Lumos Total Home Wi-Fi

With a wired connection, you need an ethernet cord to connect your device directly to the internet. With a wireless connection (Wi-Fi), you can connect to the internet without cables.

A router is a device that provides Wi-Fi and is typically connected to a modem. It sends information from the internet to your devices, like computers, phones, and tablets. These internet-connected devices in your home make up your Local Area Network (LAN).

A wireless router is a device that allows your wireless-capable devices to connect to the internet. With a traditional router, your devices must rely on a single point of access (the router). With a mesh network, you get multiple points of access (depending on your home size) to ensure full coverage of your home. With a wireless router, you don’t have to worry about the size of the antennas or walls blocking the signal.

A Wi-Fi Extender is a device that repeats the wireless signal from your router to expand its coverage. It functions as a bridge, capturing the Wi-Fi from your router and rebroadcasting it to areas where the Wi-Fi is weak or nonexistent, improving the performance of your home Wi-Fi.

Unlike a traditional router that only broadcasts a signal from one point, with a wireless mesh network, the signal is broadcast from multiple access points that link together seamlessly throughout your home.

The resulting network provides your home with wall-to-wall coverage, eliminating dead zones and weak spots so that you can have a consistent connection to the internet on all your devices in any room. During installation, the technician will customize a solution for your home and recommend additional access points if needed to get whole-home coverage.

While wired internet is generally faster, it’s not always possible or practical to plug in many devices (think of how many cables you would need). Besides, even if you could plug them in, some devices simply can’t go as fast as your internet can go.

Wi-Fi 6 (otherwise known as 802.11ax) is a newer generation of Wi-Fi that eliminates the issues that come with connecting multiple devices to the same network. This technology delivers faster speeds, better battery life and less bandwidth congestion than older technologies. This means your devices are more likely to maintain fast speeds, even on busy networks. Our Mesh Wi-Fi 6 router brings these technologies together so you can get online without interruptions or slowdowns.

Wi-Fi 6E is an expanded standard of Wi-Fi 6, using a new, higher-bandwidth 6 GHz radio frequency band. This expansion delivers more capacity, faster speed, and less traffic than previous versions, ideal for intense bandwidth home and work activities.