Deco BE65

Depends on what you have as a router right now and what are your requirements and the final goal, if you have a dual band router, adding a latest tri band technology with it will be incompatible. Tp-link best pair with latest technology would be a BE600 router with RE653BE extender. Both are wifi7 triband and provide very wide area coverage without any drops and issues. Its is legacy compatible, so even if you dont have all wifi7 devices, it can still work with older wifi standards. Their prices are fluctuating right now, but might drop soon on Black friday or some other sale event.

No it does not if you select correct products and placements. I tested tplink be600 with RE653BE, which are both tri band wifi 7 devices. I was able to get full gig speeds constantly on easymesh, no wired backhaul. Now this was for a 2 story home, total 1500 sqft give or take a few. I was able to get gig speeds on every nook and corner of the house. 5ghz would give me 1.1 to 1.3gbps while 6ghz would give me 1.7gbps max. As the iperf test i was running to a pc with 2.5g ethernet port, so that was my limit for wifi. Many mesh devices and other brands wont be able to provide such as they dont have any dedicated backhaul for uplink. Different factors produces different results. But its not true that you cannot achieve it without wiring everything. Wired is always better but sometimes its not possible to run these across.

Well there arent much deviced capable of using MLO at thos point in time, i did rigorous testing and it didnt helped. Yes wired is always better if you have that option. But i cannot run it in a rental home, flat wire is good, but taking it from 2nd floor to 1st or even to other side of the home on same floor its just not worth in my case when i am able to get full speeds. It looks ugly and would cost too much time, money and effort to hide them. Most of my servers and main systems are wired already, so for others when i am getting gig speeds over wifi and not care about latency spiking hard. It fits my case. The reason for all this explaining is just for those who would think they cant get gig speeds over wifi. Everyone has their own setup and priority and if my experience with this can help anyone. That would be my goal.

Be600 with RE653BE works best

Depends on what you have as a router right now and what are your requirements and the final goal, if you have a dual band router, adding a latest tri band technology with it will be incompatible. Tp-link best pair with latest technology would be a BE600 router with RE653BE extender. Both are wifi7 triband and provide very wide area coverage without any drops and issues. Its is legacy compatible, so even if you dont have all wifi7 devices, it can still work with older wifi standards. Their prices are fluctuating right now, but might drop soon on Black friday or some other sale event.

I just got this last week https://amzn.eu/d/73WU4jW and it’s fantastic. I have 500mb download and before this using just a Vodafone isp router that they provided the WiFi would drop like a rock when a room or two away from the router but now I’m getting the full 500mb download even when upstairs see https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/6800731571 and good ping too. It’s expensive but worth it, currently on offer for another 6 hours

That's false, I'm already getting decent signal (80Mbps) through that 8 inches concrete mass, using Wifi 6 only. I'm now wondering if I could improve that using Wifi 7.

I just received the Wifi 7 mesh by TP Link (BE9300) and replaced my previous Wifi 6 mesh by TP Link (AX3000) and the difference is... massive. Through that 8 inches concrete mass I used to top at 80Mbps, with the new Wifi 7 mesh I now top at 210Mbps. So yeah there's definitely a noticeable difference !

I have the Deco be65 wifi 7 3 pack and i am very happy with it on my 800squ block. Can reach all areas.

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.

Go with the XE75 if you can plug the mesh nodes with a cable ( Ethernet backhaul ) if you cannot, then you will see tangible benefits of WiFi7 being used for backhaul (communication between nodes). There are a few good analyses done by dongknows and blacktubi. Worth diving into. I just ordered BE65Pro. It was 425 CAD (be65pro) vs 254 CAD (xe75). To be fair the latter would’ve be been adequate for my needs (1gig connection) but I’m a gadget nerd and was willing to pay for future growth (5gig Ethernet ports) and better wireless mesh performance on wireless backhaul.

Im not trying to invalidate the specialized models you recommended. In my experience the 6G TP Link routers have all been ass above the BE6500 which has WiFi 7 MLO and operates on the 2.4G and 5G exclusively. Everything in between the BE19000 and the BE6500 required a compromise to the bandwidth depending on the specific model that was purchased. For example the BE11000 has a 6G band available and is able to take advantage of 320Mhz of spectrum. However ideal performance is not always possible and thus THE chum bucket the chum bucket exists