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@_jacksmith A small studio or 1 bed likely isn't their target customer

@eric3000 @_jacksmith Agree, this is more the target for those who want to substitute multiple repeaters.

@_jacksmith Might want to check out unifi sometime as well.

@etc I've had Unifi at a previous office. I think there's a bit more of a learning curve in terms of setup. Also for a housing environment, the open mesh devices that I have are about 1/4 or 1/3rd the size of the Unifi devices. So much more discreet. They're also cheaper.

@_jacksmith Are you sure that's still the case? From what I see, the Unifi APs (AC Pro) are half the price of their Open Mesh equivalents. ($120 vs $225) The Open Mesh software is definitely more capable through the interface, but Unifi does have some interesting features, including zero handoff and effective band steering. Not advocating either solution - but I've been pretty happy with the solution after testing out a few alternatives. Thanks for the feedback!

@fdiner what's the range of one of the 'pods' ?

@fdiner How does plume connect to the Internet, with my Provider? Because your marketing feels like I can remove my Router for good.

@tristancelebi @fdiner It looks like you connect 1 pod to your ISP modem

@fdiner it has been my dream to bring wifi to every corner of my house. Thanks! for making it possible

@fdiner can we pre-order it on amazon?

@joe_blau 😀

@joe_blau Like you my friend, we don’t want to live in a world without emojis as WiFi network names 🙌

@rrhoover the main difference would seem to be the larger number of access points and the "Auto channel hop", which sounds quite innovative.

@rrhoover Seconded

@_jacksmith @rrhoover Also the price per unit seems to be much cheaper.

@acpmasquerade but that becomes irrelevant if you need 6 Plume's to = 2x Eeros. But yeah, if you're getting 6x for ~$250, then that's likely potentially cheaper overall

@_jacksmith Yup, either way its cheaper even when Eeros require you to buy 3 units, Plume wants 6. Apart from that Plume claims to have worked on protocol layer as well.

@datarade From what I can tell, Plume is doing a couple of interesting things that most other folks aren't trying: - many more small antennas, more widely spaced; I think a lot of routers start from the assumption that you need to optimize the case for a single base-station. Plume starts from the assumption that you have one antenna per room. - compute in the cloud. The entire system's configuration is constantly being adapted via the cloud analysis. @fdiner talk above how the individual antennas change their channel, but the interesting part is that those channel choices are being driven holistically for the whole system, and not each antenna trying to optimize individually. At the end of the day, we'll have to see how it plays out in the real world, but the WiFi situation in a lot of places (including both my home and my office) is not "solved". Maybe Plume hasn't solved it either, but it's a novel new approach that looks more radical than all the other attempts I've seen (including Eero). I'd have an order in already if they shipped to Canada!

@datarade wireless in general, and WiFi in particular (an unlicensed spectrum) is an indeterministic medium - the environment constantly changes due to varying loads, congestion, interference, fading, etc. Current offerings are largely "fixed" solutions trying to solve a "varying" problem. The result today, as the sum of the two, is a varying, inconsistent quality of experience. Plume is a dynamic, adaptive, self-optimizing approach that's intended to offer a constant, high quality of experience. We leverage the amazing work the industry is doing in the silicon and RF level - Plume's technical contributions to the industry are largely in software, algorithms, data intelligence, machine learning, and massively scalable cloud architectures to help improve [home] WiFi.