TP-Link - Deco BE65 Pro

I picked up the BE65 Pro 3 pack at Best Buy a few weeks ago. It’s on sale for $399 and they offer 15% off with a trade-in. There’s also an Amex $25 cash back offer for Best Buy right now.

If you’re needing WiFi 7. Highly recommend the BE 65 Pro (3 nodes), Has worked great for me!

I did the same upgrade myself about 3 weeks ago and it’s awesome! Definitely like the app better and so far speeds and reliability have been outstanding. Worth the money and time to redo my setup

That spectrum Wi-Fi 7 router is the worst of them all I got rid of that and bought a deco TP Link be 65 pro system with a fourth satellite I use one as the router three satellites all hard wired in my house all issues I had beforehand are now gone it's spectrum's garbage equipment the only thing they have worth keeping is the modem.

Just got the 2 x BE65 Pro on Amazon, on sale ($499 cdn) to pair with my GE 800. Overkill I know, but it's going to be fun.

I know it isnt exactly what you asked but I have a similar configuration and went with the Archer + Extender option. I went with Archer BE11000 Pro (the router not deco - there is some overlap on naming) and RE405BE extender. Got both on sale from Bestbuy for 350 and it is an absolute fantastic configuration. I have wired backhaul between the two. One point of note: You may think that the extender should be set in access point mode, but it actually stays in EasyMesh mode and auto detects that the wires backhaul is optimal.

Depends on the size of the space you’re trying to cover and your internet speeds. Deco XE75 WiFi 6E system strong reliable good for gig or less isp speeds. If you have higher than a gig for speed then Go XE75 pro Deco AXE4900 pro good all around system for speeds of 2.5 gig or less. Solid performance just a tad slower WiFi speeds compared to the XE75 pro which is an AXE5400 Deco. BE63 WiFi 7 means your future proofing yourself good for internet speeds of up to 2.5 gig solid system Deco BE65 another WiFi 7 model pretty much the same as the BE63 but a little more speed or the BE65 pro good for speeds of up to 5 gig

You could do a few different models my suggestions would be Deco XE75 Deco XE75 Pro Deco AXE4900 Pro Those 3 are WiFi 6E tri band Systems If you want something WiFi 7 that would future proof you then something like a BE63 or BE11000 would be a safe choice. If you go with the BE63 make sure to grab Hardware Version 2.6 as 1.6 hardware has a lot of issues and is being phased out but there are still some out there. So just watch for that. If you want a basic WiFi 6 system then something like an X55 or X55 pro would also work fairly well

Look into tp link one mesh setup or easy mesh setup tp link has 4 systems One Mesh is 1 tp link compatible router with 1 compatible extender to form a mesh system. This system can only use extenders to form a mesh. Easy mesh is Multiple tp link compatible routers and or extenders. This is usually the better choice as you can use other compatible routers and not just extenders. Deco is the 3rd mesh system and is not compatible with anything else except deco models and all models work together but the fastest model should be your main and the others as satellites. Then there’s the business class systems which is Omada

I agree with other comments return the archer and keep the deco system. While they come from the same company they work differently and not compatible with each other in terms of “meshing”.

Yes, you can set up 2 individual SSID to your liking, for each you can choose all frequency or 5g or 6g or 5g+6g. Besides the above, you can also set up another SSID for MLO, but will only allow you to choose between 2.4g+5g+6g or 5g+6g. You can even build a 4th SSID if you enable IoT network. And for mesh you can even choose which node connects to which node, so daisy chaining is pretty easy to configure on the deco system. Also, you can decide the which node the device will only connects to.

Just upgraded to the Deco BE65 Pro from an Orbi RBR750 system, and the Deco iOS app is a huge improvement. Using main wired directly to the Fiber ‘modem’ + 1 wireless downstairs & 1 wired upstairs + 1 wireless upstairs. Just wanted to get input on this being the most optimized infrastructure. Thanks in advance.

Hey much appreciated. I really just mirrored the older Orbi setup. This WiFi 7 mesh is just much faster and the app is much more intuitive.  The Orbi has served us well, but parental controls were disjointed and not intuitive at all. The device management is much stronger on the Deco app.