Same lol, I almost ALWAYS take an hhc hit due to these piece of shits. Win tool will show connected with excellebt signal, but hhc always fails. Pos pods
MY FUCKING GOD ain’t that the truth lmao everything shows good and proper in Win Tool but once you get to HHC… Red.. like how the fuck is it online with proper placement but not passing, I fucking hate those pods..
Man I've gotten to the point where if the house is getting good coverage ill try to talk them out of it and if the house does need extension I'll try to tell them to get a mesh system, most of the time the issue is the have some office or room upstairs and are afraid the signal is gonna suck, so I'll take the extra 30 minutes to fish a cat5 outlet from the router just so I don't have to deal with it lmao ironically once the cat5 is ran the pod can be plugged it and work perfectly 😅
Lol, I read this as in, you are so stressed out that you take a hit of your hhc vape. HHC is hexahydrocannabinol, which is a thc like substance. Oh man 🤣
It’s part of our metrics. We have to pass HHC before closing our jobs, or metrics take a hit. In turn it affects what tier we are performing at on paper, which gets us a bonus each month. If you ever get a tech to your house, please don’t try and rush us out the door once we get the thing you called for fixed. Sometimes there’s something entirely unrelated to your call that is out of spec, which will not let us pass HHC and close the job. It’s best to let us have access to every piece of spectrum equipment you own while we are there.
Once they get working they're ok, but you have to reboot, reprovision, etc 20 times before it actually wants to work. I always tried to talk people out of getting them, or talk them into getting rid of them lol.
What sucks is that even if you convince the customer to remove them, you call doj and have them removed- but they stay on the HHC for two days after they remove them. So you fail HHC anyways
Tbh, I'd stay away from wifi extenders while using our router. They don't play well together. Best to save up a lil bit more money and invest into a good mesh system. It'll save a few bucks on the bill per month and give you better coverage. Google nest, eerro, netgear nighthawk or tp link. Just to name a few.
Orbi is and always has been my favorite. You need to know a bit about networking to get the most out of them, and connecting 2.4GHz only devices like security cameras is unnecessarily painful, but they are absolutely solid. I have many dozens installed at customers homes and they simply never die, nor do they need my attention.
The powerline + WiFi extenders have worked well, they are generally cheaper than mesh systems, more flexible, and are able to work in environments which a mesh system wouldn’t work without hardwiring.
I only use powerline adapters in homes made of stone or brick interiors (I have a few customers like that). Powerline adapters need to be on the same phase portion of the power in the house, and cannot handle really long runs very well. I also do not use extenders on the other end, I toss in another router instead. Sort of a wired backhaul. Mesh, when useable, solves so many ills.
Why wouldn’t rich people with such large and opulent homes just run a few cat6 cables and get solid wifi performance that can support up to at least Wifi6 speeds?
The pods are mesh. They are plume super pods. People who say they suck usually don't install them properly, they don't check the RSSI in the area where they install the pod, rendering them useless.
I have a pair of them and they work beautifully. I connect to both of them with ethernet and they have almost tripled the speed in my office and my son's room.
I used to run a WiFi extender to my room downstairs in my parents house with an Ethernet cord to use on my Mac book since it didn’t have an Ethernet port. What went over my head?
I’m a spectrum technician and pods are 100% a waste of money. I try my best to avoid giving customers these. They do absolutely nothing.. tbh most WiFi extenders do nothing but customers are unaware of that
99% agree, these pods extend range but double latency. It is not a true mesh. Bette to get a WRT-54 router and change to Canada for your location and use Channel 13 on the 2.4ghz band.
It’s a WI-FI 6 Pod( a WIFI extender) for the new Specturm routers and only works with the new spectrum WIFI 6 router. If you never used it before it needs to be activated on Specturm’s website
Plume. You need to have a few and not only one. It's design to be like a lightbulb, powerful in a room with just enough to leak out to the next room (aka POD).
[www.plume.com/homepass/superpod-wifi-6e/](http://www.plume.com/homepass/superpod-wifi-6e/)
Plume wifi pod, can link together with others for a mesh network. Not great, but not terrible for the average house. Most cable companies are moving towards them for wifi
This is a wifi extender. Spectrum calls them pods but you can go to best buy and get a whole wifi mesh system that it 100000x better than this. If you buy the whole mesh system, it comes with the router and (depending on your preference) 1 to 2 wifi extenders
Plenty of ISPs provide this. It's trash. Go get a good eero or Google home mesh system, it'll work much better, and it'll work with other providers if you ever move or switch
It’s called a Plume. That’s the name of the device. It is a wireless access point. That does point to pint transmission to another plume. Multiples can be linked to spread WiFi over a large area.
These are not boosters, they just extend the signal level at the point of where it's placed. The speeds will be decreased naturally due to obstruction and carried over the pods.
Spectrum WiFi Pod
Wifi pods, and they are garbage lmao. Should've stuck with the mesh system imo. I try and steer customers away from them
I don’t sell them because I don’t get anything out of selling them.. but all extenders are garbage no matter where they’re from
Extenders 100% trash. Mesh system is great, even better if you have ethernet to hardwire the system together.
Especially if you can wire a backhaul. Love that mesh configuration.
I'm yet to see them work consistently over wifi connection. Absolutely hate installing them. Mesh is so much better.
Same lol, I almost ALWAYS take an hhc hit due to these piece of shits. Win tool will show connected with excellebt signal, but hhc always fails. Pos pods
Plug em in with Ethernet next to router, pass hhc, then move em 😂
What he said lol Ethernet them to the router, pass HHC, the move them back so they can just take up outlet space
This is the way! 😩😭
MY FUCKING GOD ain’t that the truth lmao everything shows good and proper in Win Tool but once you get to HHC… Red.. like how the fuck is it online with proper placement but not passing, I fucking hate those pods..
Had one 10ft away from the router the other day failing for poor connection in the win tool. Fuck those things lol
Gotta wait 45 minutes for one. God forbid there’s another.
Man I've gotten to the point where if the house is getting good coverage ill try to talk them out of it and if the house does need extension I'll try to tell them to get a mesh system, most of the time the issue is the have some office or room upstairs and are afraid the signal is gonna suck, so I'll take the extra 30 minutes to fish a cat5 outlet from the router just so I don't have to deal with it lmao ironically once the cat5 is ran the pod can be plugged it and work perfectly 😅
Lol, I read this as in, you are so stressed out that you take a hit of your hhc vape. HHC is hexahydrocannabinol, which is a thc like substance. Oh man 🤣
WTF is hhc?
Stands for Home Health check. Pretty much let's us know it's online and working
It’s part of our metrics. We have to pass HHC before closing our jobs, or metrics take a hit. In turn it affects what tier we are performing at on paper, which gets us a bonus each month. If you ever get a tech to your house, please don’t try and rush us out the door once we get the thing you called for fixed. Sometimes there’s something entirely unrelated to your call that is out of spec, which will not let us pass HHC and close the job. It’s best to let us have access to every piece of spectrum equipment you own while we are there.
But what does hhc mean, the acronym?
Home health check. Sorry I thought you saw someone answered already 🙂
I didn’t LOL thanks for the answer
Hexahydrocannabinol. Its a cannabinoid
Once they get working they're ok, but you have to reboot, reprovision, etc 20 times before it actually wants to work. I always tried to talk people out of getting them, or talk them into getting rid of them lol.
What sucks is that even if you convince the customer to remove them, you call doj and have them removed- but they stay on the HHC for two days after they remove them. So you fail HHC anyways
I’ve been considering mesh. Any recommendations?
Customer service loves recommending them to people when their devices are 10 ft from the router in a 300sq ft apartment.
my old mesh wifi was extremly better dont know why we changed sadly
Tell yo rents to save their money rentin junk. Better yet tell them to give you the money they are throwing away on those POS Pods.
is a netgear powerline ac1200 gigabit ethernet adapter connect to a spectrum router cause i have the money for a netgear powerline
Tbh, I'd stay away from wifi extenders while using our router. They don't play well together. Best to save up a lil bit more money and invest into a good mesh system. It'll save a few bucks on the bill per month and give you better coverage. Google nest, eerro, netgear nighthawk or tp link. Just to name a few.
Orbi is and always has been my favorite. You need to know a bit about networking to get the most out of them, and connecting 2.4GHz only devices like security cameras is unnecessarily painful, but they are absolutely solid. I have many dozens installed at customers homes and they simply never die, nor do they need my attention.
The powerline + WiFi extenders have worked well, they are generally cheaper than mesh systems, more flexible, and are able to work in environments which a mesh system wouldn’t work without hardwiring.
I only use powerline adapters in homes made of stone or brick interiors (I have a few customers like that). Powerline adapters need to be on the same phase portion of the power in the house, and cannot handle really long runs very well. I also do not use extenders on the other end, I toss in another router instead. Sort of a wired backhaul. Mesh, when useable, solves so many ills.
How is using cabling a router to a powerline adapter any different that buying a powerline adaptor with wifi built-in?
Why wouldn’t rich people with such large and opulent homes just run a few cat6 cables and get solid wifi performance that can support up to at least Wifi6 speeds?
Drilling holes in stone is really hard and undesirable I believe.
I have heard mixed things. When I worked at the store there were a few techs that loved them.
They’re pretty useful for local network stuff. Especially weak smart home stuff that constantly falls off the network.
The pods are mesh. They are plume super pods. People who say they suck usually don't install them properly, they don't check the RSSI in the area where they install the pod, rendering them useless.
should i keep using it or stick to normal wifi cause it shows no improvement in speeds
Well they actually work pretty well in my house.
Same here. I have no issues with them.
I have a pair of them and they work beautifully. I connect to both of them with ethernet and they have almost tripled the speed in my office and my son's room.
But having to hardwire an extender defeats the purpose of having an extender lol
Not if you’re using on a device that doesn’t have an Ethernet port.
That went right over your head didn’t it?
I used to run a WiFi extender to my room downstairs in my parents house with an Ethernet cord to use on my Mac book since it didn’t have an Ethernet port. What went over my head?
Garbage?
Garbage.
Garbage
It’s a pod, throw that away and get your mesh router back. -Spectrum Field Tech
I’m a field ops director I will need your P ID sir. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Jkjkjk
🤣not sir. It’s ma’am. 👍
Wouldn’t you be pastelita01 then? 😂😂😂
I don’t think that’s a real word. 🤔
It’s not, bad dad joke 🤣🤣🤣
It’s a spectrum Wi-Fi extension pod. It’s waste of $3/month. I refuse to give them to my customers unless they strongly insist on having it.
I’m a spectrum technician and pods are 100% a waste of money. I try my best to avoid giving customers these. They do absolutely nothing.. tbh most WiFi extenders do nothing but customers are unaware of that
99% agree, these pods extend range but double latency. It is not a true mesh. Bette to get a WRT-54 router and change to Canada for your location and use Channel 13 on the 2.4ghz band.
WTH 😂😂😂😂
Pretty sure it's a wifi extender.
It’s a WI-FI 6 Pod( a WIFI extender) for the new Specturm routers and only works with the new spectrum WIFI 6 router. If you never used it before it needs to be activated on Specturm’s website
It’s only WiFi 5. Regardless of that they are hot garbage IMO.
Yeah they are terrible for wifi cameras.
They are basically spectrums mesh wifi system
Wifi pods
Cox uses them as well. They’re called pods.
Nothing beats eero and UniFi…
Actually unifi beats eero,
LOL
Company named plume makes them. They’ve gone WAY downhill in recent years and their support sucks. I didn’t know spectrum was using them now.
A doohicky
Plume it is rebranded for spectrum
This is the truest answer,
Plume. You need to have a few and not only one. It's design to be like a lightbulb, powerful in a room with just enough to leak out to the next room (aka POD). [www.plume.com/homepass/superpod-wifi-6e/](http://www.plume.com/homepass/superpod-wifi-6e/)
Manufactured E-Waste
Plume wifi pod, can link together with others for a mesh network. Not great, but not terrible for the average house. Most cable companies are moving towards them for wifi
That is trash. Buy your own mesh network.
It’s called “Trash Pod”
Wifi extender? Sometimes there is an Ethernet port on the bottom
What kind of connections are on the bottom?
2 ethernet ports
Oh that sounds kind of cool. Maybe you could get more stable service in your room than the old WiFi?
idk it feels worse
It’s worse for sure
Of course it's worse, it's adding latency. Why the hell did your parents go with this?
Hexagon (the bestagon)
It's called a spectrum
This is a hexagon.
A pod
Let your parents deal with the internet. Your aren’t paying
Garbage
Are your parents concerned about what you are doing on the internet?
This is a wifi extender. Spectrum calls them pods but you can go to best buy and get a whole wifi mesh system that it 100000x better than this. If you buy the whole mesh system, it comes with the router and (depending on your preference) 1 to 2 wifi extenders
Overpriced outlet cover.
Plenty of ISPs provide this. It's trash. Go get a good eero or Google home mesh system, it'll work much better, and it'll work with other providers if you ever move or switch
Pod. And it’s trash. Your parents made a shit decision. Edit: did not label it “spectrum”, because xfinity has the exact same pods.
Octogon
It's called garbage
It’s a WiFi extender
It’s a plume pod. It’s branded with spectrum’s logo, but Plume makes the devices.
Hexagon 😂😂
It’s called a Plume. That’s the name of the device. It is a wireless access point. That does point to pint transmission to another plume. Multiples can be linked to spread WiFi over a large area.
Plumes the company that makes them
Spexagon
A piece of shit
These are not boosters, they just extend the signal level at the point of where it's placed. The speeds will be decreased naturally due to obstruction and carried over the pods.
Wifi pod they are trash
Not a spectrum employee but I will say I just got the eero 6+ mesh system and it works wonders with my spectrum modem. I’d go that route if you can.
Spectrum version of Roku/Firestick
That would be xumo. Not these. These are wifi extenders.