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Leo’s home office was a digital battlefield. Between his 4K video calls and his daughter’s lag-heavy gaming marathons, their old router was basically a white flag of surrender. Every afternoon at 3:00 PM, the Wi-Fi would crawl to a halt, followed by the inevitable shout from across the hall: "Dad, the internet died again!"

Sam steered him toward the . He explained that instead of one overworked router trying to scream through brick walls, a mesh system used "nodes" to blanket the house in a seamless web of signal. Leo picked out a TP-Link Deco set, lured by the promise of Wi-Fi 6 speeds and easy app setup.

Fed up with the "spinning wheel of death," Leo headed to . He expected to just grab the first box with the most antennas, but a Blue Shirt named Sam stopped him.