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.
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.
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.
I'm finally giving up and getting rid of my Google nest wifi. Had it for 4 years. In the last 5 months one, if not both, access points have been going offline/turning off and needing resets. It got to the point I'd reset it every couple hours then have to reboot the entire system. I even got the points on smart plugs so I can reboot them remotely but has become a huge inconvenience. Upgraded to the TP link deco BE65 pro with Wi-Fi 7. Hoping for better performance and speeds
Hey all,
I currently have a 3 XE75s, 2 on the main floor (main node, and a wireless satellite) and 1 more upstairs connected by ethernet to the main node.
Everything has been working great. However I don't get any signal in my basement. I was thinking of adding another node in the basement (will be connected with ethernet backhaul).
Theres a store that has a 2 pack of XE75 Pros on sale for $250 (CAD), and amazon has a single BE85 for $480
Should I just get the 2 XE75 Pros. Put one in the basement, and put the second one as a wireless hop in between the other wireless one.
Or take this chance to upgrade my main node to a BE85, and move the current one to the basement?
I have mostly IOT devices (45 or so, maybe 20-25 connected to the main node).
My internet maxes out at 1gbps, so I know I won't see any speed enhancements. Which is fine.
Will I see much benefit with the BE85? I'm sort of looking for an excuse to upgrade to Wifi 7... Even though I don't think I really need it.
Thats actually a good idea. Theres an BE65 Pro 2 pack on sale right now on amazon. I think it's more than enough for my needs. I can switch my main node and another heavy traffic node to the BE65, and then have the XE75's around the house to fill the gap (mainly for IOT devices).
Looking at the BE65 pro VS BE85, the main difference is a 10gb ethernet port compared to 5gb, and then double the wireless throughput.. But I don't think I will notice that too much for years to come.
The deco xe line is pretty good. I have been running the xe75 pro for a year and it has been very stable. There is a firmware bug where if you have an iot network ssid set up, the preferred network feature does not work for iot devices.
And other bug it has is with the wan ports. If ISP goes down, the remaining Ethernet ports also disconnect. This is due to the auto wan port feature which tries to check which port is being used as wan. Unfortunately no way to disable this. They are aware of the bug though.
Stay away from the be series (wifi 7). They’re riddled with bugs. I’ve been dealing with their support engineers for almost a month and there are catastrophic firmware bugs causing random device disconnects.
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