TP-Link - Deco P7
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"My Portal now connects and works amazing. Fast connection, zero lag."
"Actually better than a range extender, as Mesh systems are designed from the ground up to work with each other in the system. ... But it's half ass "patched up" jerky jerky mesh was no match to a Deco. Deco was snappier, more reliable, and longer range."
"I myself have a deco and we have four modules through a long rambly ranch house and we have nearly 300 MB per second everywhere because we have about 1 GB per second fiber to the house."
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"I myself have a deco and we have four modules through a long rambly ranch house and we have nearly 300 MB per second everywhere because we have about 1 GB per second fiber to the house."
"It takes 3 decos to cover 5500 sq ft. That’s what I have. Took about 5 of the crappy Linksys ones. Got rid of those."
"I was able to cover a 3 level house using two units (one of the ground floor and second mounted near the roof of second floor near the stairs. This covers all 3 floors completely."
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"TPLink Decco is a damn good mesh system and and much cheaper. ... $169 for my 3 Decco System."
"you can pick up a 3-pack for cheap, solid units"
"for your building you could probably do it for under $1,000 easily."
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"It’s easy and reliable. ... This is all really easy to set up in my experience, and it just works."
"And yes you can install this by the yourself without any networking knowledge."
"Super easy to set up"
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"the decos have it built in and will pick the best signal strength between wireless backhaul and powerline"
"the nodes come with additional Ethernet ports(2 extra after doing hardwired backhaul)"
"You can run Ethernet from your switch to each of the other mesh devices as a faster backhaul or connect them wirelessly if there’s a strong signal."
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"throughput just randomly drops to 1kbps"
"It's not great / weaker then the tp link deco meshing setup i was using before. Lower connection speed and more frequent disconnects."
"performance worse than when I was just using a router"
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"I bought the deco’s and had to return them, the kit arrived with one unit dead on arrival."
"switched to tplink deco's and after 1 year, there was latency and packet drops all over the place."
"i noticed a BIG improvement once i conected all my decos via ethernet. ... Some meross plugs disconected all the time before wiring my decos, now they work flawless!"
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"I have a deco, nothing but trouble. Read the tp link subreddit about dropped connections."
"throughput just randomly drops to 1kbps"
"switched to tplink deco's and after 1 year, there was latency and packet drops all over the place."
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"frequently fails to deliver advertised features or function reliably"
"The tplink’s I bought say they support mesh but once setup as a mesh they lose features. ... So the mesh isn’t worth using. ... The mesh setup is a half baked. You can’t use all the wifi features when setup as a mesh."
"has a dumbed-down admin interface with only basic config options"
MeatInteresting1090 0.2Will powerline work in your house? If so I'd get something like TPLink Decos with the powerline backhaul.
it's not, but the decos have it built in and will pick the best signal strength between wireless backhaul and powerline. In the OPs case wired of some kind will be the best option, first would be ethernet, second powerline (provided the wiring is good enough for it)
I have two apartments both are like faraday cages, I have Ubiquiti in one and Deco Powerlines in the other. I'm pretty impressed with the Decos for the prices
33or45 0.0get mesh system - depending on your current DL speeds that you are paying for you may get away with a pre WIFI 6 system of 2 or 3 units... they go cheap on FB market place where people have upgraded to faster speeds We have TP deco on a 3 story townhouse... 1 on each floor - works well no dead spots like we had before and can plug in apple tv in the lounge to one via a wire... not a massive outlay tbf for good coverage if you are looking for less than 100MB down Look for DECO MESH on FB market place and you may get 3 units of pre WIFI 6 for less than 100 bux... it does enough for less than 100 down
jcatanza 0.0I second that recommendation to get a mesh system. Also make sure the mesh system is capable of “WPA3 security”. I am using a TP-link Deco system, with 3 units. I have a 2 story 2100 sq ft home and this system covers all areas well.
Jerky_san 0.0I have both deco's and cuddy's the decos you can get from costco though (3 pack) and they were pretty well but the bad thing is they kind of stop updating after a year or two. They also go on sale very often at costco. I am unsure on cuddy's as I just got them for testing. I also do bypass though so I don't even use the bgw620 even though I have one.
_alexw 0.0Agree, Deco mesh is very good, took a bit of adjusting in my flat - the walls seemed to be lined with lead.
baby_faced_assassin_ 0.07,299 right now on Amazon for 3 unit TP link deco.
bigbadchief 0.0I got the same mesh system recently and have found it to be great.
bjcjr86 0.0From a cost/quality/ease of setup TP Link Deco’s are definitely in the running. I have 3 in a 2600 sq/ft 1 floor house with no problems. Granted mine are all hardwired in AP mode but I imagine they would still work well in mesh.
BobBarrSr 0.0The Deco was straightforward to set up for me. I started with 3 units and have added 5 more over the last few years. My setup covers 20 acres, and I've had no problems. I used to have a Ubiquiti System (Not Mesh), and it was great once it was up and running, but it took some time to work out the bugs.
BusyMakingPlans 0.0You can set a preference in Deco, both for access point and band for each device
I set up with a single SSID that covers connections on both 2.4 and 5 ghz bands, and then you can assign devices to preferred bands. It you don't assign them, which is the default, the best band is chosen by some method. The Deco will show traffic and band for each device so you would get some idea of the balance between bands looking at that. There are no overall stats by band.
I found the Deco easy to set up to in mesh access point mode. I have had no issues. Connections between branch access points and the designated central access point work well. One branch was running with wifi connection and I switched it to a powerline connection. You can take a device out of mesh roaming, and set preferred points for devices if you want to lock connections down. The app is very good, easy to use, lots of info on devices, name, ip, signal strength, connection method, which point connected to, data rate.
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