I've been burned with TP Link's Deco that is advertised as a mesh but sneakily isn't.<p>Meshforce also sucks more than it works reliably. Needs to reboot every couple of days and drops requests like hot potatoes.<p>OpenWRT seems like a logical solution, but you apparently need to be an enthusiast to get it to work, reliably, over a prolonged period.<p><i>So, question</i>: Why does daisy-chaining requests across adjacent nodes work so well in TCP/IP, but seems to be so hard and fails so miserably when we move it to the physical world? What am I missing?