TP-Link - Deco X10

I've got a Deco X10 and two M9 Plus covering three floors of a house. Works great for me. They're decently powered devices, each running about 8-10 WiFi clients including two TVs streaming simultaneously.

I have bought the x10 recently and they work great under similar conditions although we only have 125mbps

It would work, if you needed to change media types that the Deco doesn't natively handle, like MOCA to Ethernet. Your primary X10 would be in router mode, and your remaining devices would be AP slaves. Your router would handle DNS resolution and DHCP address distribution. If you can connect the AP's to the router physically, you'll have ethernet backhaul, which is ideal. Otherwise, if your mobile devices handle multi-AP handoff, it will use the strongest signal for the heaviest data loads, and defer other tasks to background channels on the other AP.

I have the same models, thoroughly recommend too

Plus one here for Deco. I have four WiFi 6 models. Mesh is a better solution I agree. WiFi 7 models are still very expensive but few devices are compatible at the moment so for me WiFi 6 is the best option for the money.

If the system you are purchasing has Ethernet ports on the mesh nodes, then you should be fine. My old Google wifi system I just replaced had this and it worked great. That TP-Link system appears to have the same functionality. I would go for mesh over a network extender, as mesh is designed to allow devices to roam between the nodes, a network extender usually is not meant for that.

You're dealing with bad mesh systems. I looked up that Deco X10 and it has the normal router 2 radio thing, one for 2.4ghz devices and one for 5ghz devices. When the mesh devices need to talk to each other they're using those same radios to communicate. This is the same way as an extender works, listening for a faint signal from the router and shouting it to your device. These solutions clog the airspace and kill bandwidth. What you want is a tri-band mesh system - 2.4/5 radios for your devices, and then a third radio for communication within the mesh system. If you like TP Link, look at the BE65, there's a 6ghz radio for the mesh system so your devices don't have to share bandwidth.

If you are using AT&T extenders then that is your problem. I bought my own DECO Mesh system and shut off the AT&T wireless function and use my DECO for my wireless connections and my internet works great and all my devices connect with no problem. I couldn't use my printer if the extenders were connected and now I never have a problem. [DECO I bought.](https://www.walmart.com/ip/TP-Link-Wi-Fi-6-Mesh-Router-Replacement-System-3-AX1500-Routers-Coverage-5-600-Sq-ft-Parental-Controls-Connect-120-devices-Deco-W4500/2932481773?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&wl13=5842&gclsrc=aw.ds&adid=222222222772932481773_117755028669_12420145346&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=501107745824&wl4=pla-394283752452&wl5=9016917&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=local&wl12=2932481773&veh=sem_LIA&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=4&gad_campaignid=12420145346&gbraid=0AAAAADmfBIoHhfLrBWgn9hxdw2g64jnqW)

Update: thanks everyone, I took some advice on here and upgraded the Deco system I had (about half the price of going ubiquity). Has been up for four days now and is perfectly stable, no devices have dropped off. Haven’t setup the separate iot network, will get around it at some stage. No more frustration for me! I’m looking for recommendations on a new router. Currently have a Deco x10 mesh system running a combination of native HomeKit devices and some off homebridge. About 40 devices total at any one time. I’m regularly getting devices drop off the network, both native and homebrige devices. Have tried all the troubleshooting I’ve been able to find with not joy, so I’m at the point of looking to replace the system. Doesn’t have to be mesh based. We have a medium sized four bedroom, single storey house, with cameras in the front and back yards. Don’t have a specific price point in mind, just want something that’s going to be as reliable as possible. Thanks in advance!

I have the s7 setup. Similar conditions and 2 floors. Works great but I still tried to maintain line of sight and had to add another 2 units. If I had a choice back then I would bump the tech. X10, 5 units. I think you are going to end up doing exactly that.

Out of top of the head: x50 dedicated 5GHz radio xe75 dedicated 6GHz radio if you don’t enable it for regular use (so if you disable 6GHz band in the app it’s not actually turned off but used as dedicated backhaul) All decos are supposed to be dynamically combining available bandwidth over all used channels/bands but without dedicated channel max bandwidth of non-main nodes is limited to half of the total speed (because in case of full saturation half is used for communication between decos and other half for communication with client devices). Considering even x10 is supposed to be ax1500 device (1500mbps of total bandwidth) it would be more than enough for 150mbps use. Unless you mean 150MB/s, not mb/s=mbps, then you’ll need top of the line wifi7 BE-something model.

You have three/four options: - mesh system like deco (it is closed system where only deco devices will work, but you can mix and match any deco devices), you will have one network with fast roaming - mesh with your existing router using easymesh (its official WiFi standard), many TP-Link devices work with easymesh, but check compatibility first, if your existing router support easymesh it may be easiest way to create mesh network (you can even use non-TP-Link device that supports easymesh), again you will have one network with fast roaming - there is OneMesh system that is older and TP-Link only (many TP-Link devices support it, again check compatibility), you will have one network with fast roaming - only extend network with any extender, you will have network under new name and no fast roaming between networks Note that if nodes are far away from each other and have some obstacles lower bands will work better while higher bands won’t probably connect at all. So you need fast 2.4GHz, any 5GHz (and 6GHz won’t probably work)