TP-Link - Deco BE16000

I wanted to write a review of my experience with this setup since I've not seen to many posted. anyway unboxing and setting up with the app wasn't difficult. honestly pretty straight forward to the point that i think almost anyone could do the initial setup with ease. the 6ghz band was defaulted to back haul traffic. which was fine for my home. basically the setup goes like this. first you plug in one unit connect the internet to it. set the 2.4and 5ghz ssids and passwords. i reused my old ssids and passwords. then the app tell you to place the other two units not more that two walls away from each unit. i have mine setup in a chain configuration because i was trying to get some sort of internet capacity to a detached garage. so my main unit is on one side of the house the second unit is in my mud room and then the final unit is probably 30 ft away in the garage. and it worked. i get about 900 mpbs in the home and about 500 outside around the garage which is 100% better than no internet in the garage. for my smart home devices which i have about 30. it was simple to setup just broke a 2.4ghz band off with the IOT setting in the app and then renamed it to the old ssid and password. and everything connected. i was a little Leary that my nest stuff or my zwave light switches wouldn't connect because Ive seen other posts about the nest stuff not connecting and other IOT problems but i had zero issues with it. i just wanted to post this because all I've seen are peoples issues with these devices and a lot of them got me scared to try it out but i decided to hell with it if it doesn't work ill take it back. and to my surprise it was one of the easiest routers i think I've ever setup. I even left the router in the box for a few days because i figured it was going to be a complete pain in the ass to set up... it wasn't all. i think start to finish i had the damn thing working in half an hour.

Yeah mines been pretty good. I ha e had to set mine up to restart every few days. And it took about a month for the system to finally figure itself out. I figgured it would of been quicker. But now that ive had it online for several months its been rock solid. My wife had some problem with her pixle phone not wanting to connect and that took awhile to figure out. This mesh systems does not like random Mac addresses. Once we turned her random mac address off its been fine. I will also say that ive had absolutely zero problems with my not devices. Ive seen a lot of posts about people having trouble with their not devices and I have had absolutely none. They work fine. If you have any questions feel free to ask because ive had this for a little while so my growing pains are pretty much over now. I actually thought this was going to be a miserable experience from all the reviews but its not been that bad honestly.

Deco BE 16000 is the best mesh router I have ever used hands down. The upper model is even better throughput but this is amazing for 2.5 Gbps or lower bandwidth.

I have a 2 pack TP Link Deco mesh system and it works great for me.

I have a 1gb connection and about 100 feet from the main unit through a brick wall I can get 25 megabits a second down.

First question that should be asked, which speed are you subscribed to? Also when did you switch? If you're on the Gig you should be running wifi-7 and that router is free. If you're on 500mbps you should have the newer wifi-6e router and modem. With my ISP (not spectrum) I'm running the deco home mesh system which is wifi-7 because my ISP equipment is 3 generations behind. You can get them from Walmart, best buy, or amazon

I got the Deco Wi-Fi 7 mesh and usually see 800+ on my devices except for devices that are only using the wireless backhaul. I’ve been very happy with it. Believe it is app only admin though. In my head, the wireless back haul is only done on 2.4 GHz so it would be limited throughput regardless of vendor. I think Unify is probably the leader for this , Orbi is probably a close second. Unless you want to get slightly complicated and use Fortinet.

just fyi - I tried new Deco wifi 7, HP Instant On and then Firewalla AP7. Very Happy with the AP7 from Firewalla and got full coverage with 3 units (needed 4 or 5 for the others as I couldn't put them on ceiling).

I think WiFi 6 is enough for an average user. I recently got the WiFi 7 mesh and ended up not even using MLO (WiFi 7 feature). People said it drain their device's battery even faster when it connects to multiple bands.

They are incredible and simple. I’ve had a setup with the WiFi 6e ones, and now have one with WiFi 7 ones. Literally stellar performance. Do you have first hand experience?

I have a higher end Deco unit that has 6ghz. I actually disabled it because my phone was constantly changing between the 6ghz and 5ghz band as I moved around the house. With Wi-Fi, stability is way more important than a little bit of extra speed. Enjoy your setup and don't worry about what other people say.

im a fan of tplink deco. for the best speeds get wifi 6/7 capable, and buy a few nodes to increase their range.

best solution is to use ethernet cable, or coax with moca adapters and backhaul the AP. next best is wifi mesh.. eg tplink deco

better than mesh is to use ethernet cable with AP. mesh wise tplink deco are easy and quick to setup.

unifi is good, but ive had good results from tplink deco

r/HomeNetworking best is to use ethernet cables, worth getting some installed next best is wifi mesh, ive used and recommended tplink deco wifi 6E/7.. stable and decent speeds and for multiple levels.

tplink deco wifi 6e/7 model to use their dedicated backhaul channel, ive recommended and install for few ppl easy and works fine

go with full tplink deco make one of them as the router..

used and installed tplink deco for some friends