My experience is that it sped things up a great deal.
Until I took that step I never had consistent performance from universal clipboard or taking calls, furthermore, when those features engage now they work much faster than they used to; when they did!
I have gone back and forth on my own router for a while but at the end of the day I like to know I can return my rental anytime.
The only thing different about the network setup with the HomePods is the inability to assign an IP: all the devices with one are, finally, working well, the ones without are glitching, still. I don’t think that’s my ISP, I think that’s something with Apple. Some users need to be able to control IPs, for any number of reasons, and Apple simply will not give the HomePod user the control they get on their iPhone, iPad or Mac.
I would rather not have done any of this and it may not be worth doing for many but for the first time in months I have actually made progress with a number of issues so I felt it worth sharing.
And I have rebooted my HomePods when they glitched this morning. I can always hope it does something this time!
