TP-Link - Deco XE75 Pro

if you want speed, you definitely need deco in each room. if you just want coverage, whatever I guess. get the one you can afford, just make sure that the deco your buying is gigabit capable, at least the main deco that is going to connect to your ISP provided CPE ONT, tapos you can go cheap with the satelite/slave devices to widen the coverage.

Originally it was P9s using powerline (ether over mains) but I scrapped that as the WiFi coverage was poor and the nodes were unstable. Now it's WiFi using X50s with a single P9 in the garage.

They make a version of this with 2.5gb port - the XE75 pro. I have 2 of the XE75 gigabit models and yes transfer speeds from ethernet port are limited to about 940mbps. I'm underwhelmed by Wifi 6E in general due to range, but it still does really decent backhaul speeds. I'm considering buying 1 XE75 Pro to use as the main node and keep the XE75s as satellites. But I don't have gigabit fiber currently and it would be way overkill for my setup.

Both should work, no issues at all. Etisalat tech lied to you. All their hardware is bargain bin stuff. You can get Deco or get multiple tp link routers with Easy mesh ethernet backhaul - the latter is cheaper and what I'm using these days.

Banyak yg komplain ini, mending tplink deco kl dari review2, akhirnya gw dirumah pake deco walaupun cuma sebiji (ga mesh jadinya) blm ada kendala. Sebelumnya pake tenda, banyakan errornya daripada ngganya. Saran buat op cari yg udah 5Ghz, karena channel di 2.4 banyak tabrakannya, apalagi di permukiman padat (komplek perumahan termasuk).

\+1 for deco, I have 3 of them at home (one on each floor) and it works great!

Right that makes sense. For non IoT devices like phones, laptops, etc, I know with mesh they advertise move freely around the house with seemless switching to best connection. With my eeros and tplink I have noticed this doesn't actually work when running from one side of the house to the other while on a Teams call. All that to say with a wired backhaul going back to a traditional one router with multiple WAP seems to be the right move. My only question is do devices switch to the best connection automatically. Maybe not seemless like mesh is advertised but will they at least switch if I go from side A to side B of my house?

Do you have any recommendations? I have tplink deco 6E with 4 nodes currently and it is constantly dropping internet for many of my smart devices. I have them all wired together. So if one router with aps is better what do you recommend?

I have an e7 and another wifi7 AP that I don't care to remember its name, and I went back to using my old orbi mesh system. It was nothing but headaches with the ubiquity WiFi. If I were you I'd try a decent Deco mesh system. Ive set a few of those up at clients and they are very nice and super long range. If it don't work good you can always return it :)

I ditched my whole Deco XE 75 for an Eero setup and couldn't be happier. Went from constant disconnects and issues requiring at least one reboot each day to maybe triggering a reboot once a month more out of safety than necessity. Night and day difference. Guess my problem wasn't the Cable Modem like TP-Link's Level 3 support guy told me just before he ghosted me after 2 weeks of middle of the night IT sessions with China.

The mortar does not matter (and likely it's not mortar, but brick and mortar!). It's the steel reinforcement in there that would be causing the problem. Faraday cage. A Wifi backhaul will have trouble as well, but strategically distributed, a mesh would solve the problem where the signal can go through one wall, but maybe not 3. I have had success in my place (steel-reinforced concrete) with 2 XE75 Deco units (about 50-60 clients, most of them on the IoT 2.4 network). But I found them to be a bit quirky -- I had to decommission a third X55 unit that I needed for an outdoor space, but that seemed to hurt rather than to help. From what I read the powerline backhaul is hit-and-miss. I wouldn't count on it. If it's a new home, why aren't there CAT6 cables in the walls already?

Mesh can work great. It's not as consistent or predictable as Ethernet or MoCA/g.hn, but it's usually more reliable and predictable than Powerline. You'll likely get speeds much faster than 50 Mbps, but, like Powerline, you won't know how well mesh works until you try it in your house. Mesh/WiFi will almost certainly introduce latency. You'll prob only notice it with gaming, tho. Mesh is plenty fast for video calls, video streaming, etc. You might need 3 mesh nodes: one to replace your current router, one near the PC, and one in between the two. Start with two, tho. The XE75 Pro is solid, and for sure buy a tri-band system.

Upgrade to Wifi 6E. It's quite the jump. Not just in speeds, but how the connections are handled. You want 2x2 MIMO at least on the router side for that many devices. The Deco line works well and is easy to set and forget. You can pay huge premium for Wifi7 and enjoy that, or just realize that 200-400mbps real world speed over wifi 6 or 500-750 on wifi6e will be just fine.

TP Link Deco 6E - had it for about 2 years and it's been good and super reliable. There were some concerns recently about TP Link routers phoning home to China, so something worth looking into I guess if you're worried. The management app (so take it for what it is, requires a phone app to manage) is decent, although a little annoying with the upsell of the safety suite. The feature set is great - guest network, IoT network, QoS, VPN server and client, 3 ports (only gigabit though) on each device, and 6Ghz wireless backhaul (or wired is also supported). At the time the Wifi 7 model just came out and was much more expensive so I didn't really see the point. If I were buying a new router today I'd probably go for a Wifi 7 model. Another upgrade in that is it looks like the Wifi 7 model has 1x10Gbps port and 2x2.5Gbps so that's some good future-proofing right there. Came from having Google Wifi, which I think was overall a little bit better, but I'm not upset about it. Obviously Ubiquiti is the gold standard if you wanna go that deep into it, but for a more casual (and much more affordable) solution I am not upset with my Deco. It's about $300 for 1 - have a 3-pack (~$700). If you don't need mesh, I've had good luck with Asus routers in the past and last I heard reviews for them are pretty good. Around $300 the TUF BE3600 looks like it might have all modern features you'd want.

I went with the Eero 6E. 3 units cover my whole house and yard without issue (2700 ft2). I've got probably 50 smart home connections all running without issue. I did add one 2.4 ghz network extender to reach an outdoor generator that I was having issues with but probably didn't even need to do that (we later found out there was a faulty wifi module in the generator that was causing it to drop). To swap over my network I just ripped out the XE75 setup and set up the Eero with the exact same SSID name. Boom - every single thing in my house was up and running and I didn't have to reposition anything. It probably took me 10 minutes. I've been super happy with the switch. I'm not doing any crazy high performance network stuff, but I'm usually streaming 2 or 3 4K devices, running the whole Sonos system across the house, and working or gaming on 2 or 3 computers simultaneously with zero issues. Prior to my XE75 I had a Netgear Orbi setup (the original) and had more problems with that than I do with the Eero ... but nothing was as bad as the XE75. And the nice thing was I was unload the XE75 for 70% of what I paid via Facebook Marketplace.

We had an older Google WiFi system we just replaced with a Deco system. Night and day difference in terms of reliability.

I use deco with Ethernet backbone and it's great. Set it up years ago and never had a problem

Posting this in case it helps someone else who arrives here from Google search: setting both the PSPortal and the PS5 to only use 5GHz band on a wifi mesh network seems to work well! I've been troubleshooting connection issues between my PS5 and PSPortal on my mesh wifi network (3x TPLink Deco XE75's) for a while. It worked well when in the same room as the PS5, but was quite bad in other rooms. Unfortunately I'm not able to hardwire my PS5 or connect it to the main WAP/node. My fiber comes in to a office/bedroom from the street, so my main node is nowhere near my TV/home theatre setup. I have two remote XE75s that both connect directly to the main node (also an XE75) via wireless. This has worked quite well for all of my devices (including streaming 4k media from my plex server to my plex client plugged into my TV) but the dang PSPortal just wouldn't work well. I tried forcing both devices to connect to the same node, hoping that would help, but it didn't. I tried enabling QoS, that didn't work either. Forcing both PS devices to only use 5GHz seems to have done the trick! The PSPortal is set to automatically connect to the closest WAP in range, the PS5 is set to only connect to the WAP closest to it, both are using 5GHz, this PS Portal is finally WORKING in every room of my house (so far). Today I set both the PSPortal and the PS5 to only use the 5GHz band, and moved most of my IOT/smarthome devices to only use my 2.4 GHz band. This seems to be the solution to my issues!

Initially, I had an issue where DNS resolution was failing on only some web sites, so they were just not loading and if TM reset things on their end, it seemed to work for a day or two but problem returned. Long story, short... factory reset on their end Deco fixed the problem. I think the AI didn't like me changing to TM. No problems since.

I have a three-pack XE75 Pro system, ground floor connected with 2.5gE to my OPNsense router which has its WAN port plugged directly into my BT ONT port. Then the other mesh nodes are one per floor with 6GHz backhall in our 3-storey new build and am getting solid 925Mbps on my wired network and total coverage on WiFi at around 800Mbps+ on my Samsung phone. I have an extensive homelab and IoT/home automation system with over 100 endpoints.

I have one of their combined routers and modems. I still run 3 decos across the house broadcasting is own signal. No issues.

Skip extenders and go mesh Error, Deco or nest will cover all 3 floors reliable. Keep the motorola as modem turn off it's WiFi and let the mesh handle everything.

I've tried Orbi and Deco... Deco at least has more options but I had a lot of issues walking around the house and the switching between nodes taking a long time or unable to get a full Internet access once reconnected.

No. This is a piece of hardware that requires other pieces to work. UniFi sells business and enterprise networking equipment. It requires a management system to be in place. A cloud key or Dream Machine is needed to configure this. Think, professional use only where professional knowledge is necessary. Return this to where you purchased it. If you want to use Mesh, pickup a TP-Link Deco system, Eero, or a Google Nest WiFi system for a ***proper*** functional system that won't make things worse. Don't buy garbage called "range extenders" or "WiFi boosters".

Re-iterating what others have stated. They work great when you hardware each unit. I am not a fan of wireless backhaul. In theory it should work, but in reality I find them lacking. I have recently done a Deco install and an Eero install, hardwiring all units for both. It is sometimes cheaper to do it this way than buying APs to wire in. Just remember to have the "Main" mesh unit first in the chain. I usually go Internet Modem -> First Mesh Unit -> switch -> satellites.

3x XE75 Pro has been great in our 3-storey house. 6GHz wireless backbone. Even better now they're in AP mode and I have OPNsense as router, firewall and DHCP/DNS server.