Z-Wave vs Wifi

[bmmiller (Brandon)]

@Sticks18

I half agree with you Brandon. It’s very similar to zwave, but my issue with Zigbee is that it uses the overcrowded 2.4ghz spectrum. The average user is not going to want to manage their wifi, cordless phone, bluetooth, and zigbee channels in the 2.4ghz spectrum to manage interference. Too many wireless devices use that spectrum for my liking, and I’m pretty sure it does impact the performance of my devices already. That’s why I also dislike wifi for the connected home. I don’t think consumer routers are strong enough to start managing the number of devices and the potential interference with neighboring networks well enough.

That’s an absolutely fair disadvantage. I personally don’t really qualify as your average consumer in the networking space (wired up house with business class router and AP) so I tend to not have to worry about things like interference and thus occasionally forget about them.