All in all, Linksys has made the Velop a very easy to use, user friendly package with all the necessary trinkets required to make it the full functioning WiFi mesh device it has been designed to be.
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PERFORMANCE –
When we talk about the more productivity based gadgets , in this case, the Linksys Velop, it is the performance of the unit and not the design and appearance, that determines the final credibility of the overall package. The performance tests were performed in two stages. In the first iteration, a single Velop unit was placed in a room and speedtest.net was run from the same room and the observed speeds were recorded. The result was that the connection to the modem was almost instantaneous just like it would have been in case we used a standard router. Next, we put some distance between us and the Velop unit and ran the test again. To our dismay, we observed a rather significant degradation in the speed. The result was only improved by a small margin when we introduced a second Velop unit between the first unit and ourselves.
All in all, it is observed that while the Linksys Velop has been designed as a replacement for the router and ranger extender combo, but its still a pretty half baked effort. Thick walls still impede the signal speed of the device and you really have to experiment a lot with the positioning of the individual nodes until you really hit the sweet spot. This exercise proves to be a very big hassle for the majority of the user base, which is why the Velop is not exactly a device for the masses. The final nail in the coffin is the fact that even in terms of pricing, the latest offering by Linksys does nothing to stand up against its peers, thus putting a huge question mark over its utility in the real world.
