Plume is turbo-charged Wi-Fi on a budget

If we left it up to cable companies with their crummy, out-of-date Wi-Fi routers, we’d never have decent Wi-Fi. Thank goodness for companies like Plume. It gets adaptive networking right and does it on a budget.

Plume is a pint-sized, plug-and play dual-band Wi-Fi expansion and boosting system that competes nicely with more established players like Eero (a set I use and love). I easily set up a $179 Plume three-pack in my three-story house and was impressed with the results.

Unlike Eero, which builds a mesh network that recommends line-of-sight connectivity between pods for optimal performance (in reality, you don’t need that to make it work quite well), Plume uses lower-power pods that can work singly or together to improve overall in-home Wi-Fi performance. Backed by cloud-based technology, Plume promises to learn about your network performance and improve over time. Read more...