TP-Link - Deco X68

Installed Deco x68s at my place, x55s at in laws, x55 pros at friends, and Linksys Velops at other friends, all hardwired, rock solid and roaming works flawlessly. All of them having 20-30+ clients.

I've been considering switching to the Asus WiFi for meshing as I'm finding my Deco units (3x 68 and 3x 75, all in AP mode) to be not performing well. I tried to connect them via Ethernet - even just the root Deco and one other, with all others off - and they just wouldn't work and instead flash a red light. I also hate not having a useful web interface I can check instead of being forced into the Deco app. Any experience with the Asus mesh? Is it better, same, or somehow worse?

I'm considering switching to Asus gear after giving up on the Deco stuff from Tp-link. Really frustrated as the Ethernet backhaul just doesn't work, there's minimal control of what AP talks to what, everything meaningful has to be done via a mobile app, etc. The Asus gear looked quite reasonable from that perspective.

I'm using a Deco x68 set up, tri-band, base + 1 quite happy with the performance, you possibly put one the garage, and then 1 or 2 in the house depending on how big the house is.

I have a Deco x68 set up (1 main 1 satellite) on a 250Mbs plan,, just checking task manager on my pc & it's telling me throughput is 278Mbps, while downloading a game

Get 3x Deco x68 (or better) tri-band units. One next to the main router. One in your room. One between the two.

Deco X68 / XE75 etc. The backhaul is on a different channel to the clients.

X68 has a dedicated backhaul.

spectrum provided routers are hot garbage buy a mesh wifi system do not buy an extender - they never work well moca/powerline adapters only sometimes work, often not worth the effort mesh wifi systems work well eero, deco, both work fine. There are other various brands, pick whatever has a good black friday sale and high reviews. you buy 2 or 3 of them in a kit as you get a discount for buying more you remove the spectrum wifi router 1 mesh unit plugs in where the spectrum router was the other mesh units use wifi, it's simple On the ps5 you could also try connecting to 2.4ghz if 5ghz is not stable. eero 6 3 pack is 140$ on sale right now on amazon tp deco 6 3 pack is 132$ on sale right now on amazon

Tplink Deco WiFi 6 mega is amazing you will not be disappointed

I've been seriously considering that switch myself. I jumped into this sub b/c I a asked to look at some networks using older eero setups. Found it so dumbed down that it was very hard to troubleshoot but coverage was total a$$. Once I got it running correctly, I was actually pretty impressed with the performance. especially the mesh backhall. I currently run a upper midrange 6+ deco system because until I see how well eero worked, it was by far the best I'd used. But the small business class Omada systems I've built have become my preferred standard. Just, I haven't played with mesh function on Omada and have no idea how capable it is it isn't. The other part of the equation is the cost of ownership. At the pricing I've been looking at for eero units supporting 6ghz - it's almost a toss going with it or eero when I upgrade my own home setup. Curious, anyone have any suggestions for a 6ghz eero setup with 4 APs ( meaning a master and 3 extensions via mesh backhall)? The house setup is a pain, 2 floors and backyard, and the ftth is on one side of the house dead center (where I put my main AP due to difficulty accessing above it below for extending Ethernet) but having the 2nd AP just past halfway across the width of the home, yields mediocre performance and trying to run the 3rd downstairs below the 2nd leaves 2.4ghz devices struggling no matter how many optimizations I run. Thinking maybe a 4 AP system may be required to improve things at 2.4 so my TAPO cameras don't struggle so much.

Now is the time - there are good black Friday sales on at the moment. Would get either the TP Link Deco 3 pack recommended below, or a 3 pack Eero. The deco's will be cheaper but will be fine.

Wifi boosters are a waste of time in my opinion. Mesh Wifi on the other hand can work very well. A great trick is to use the mesh stations as "ethernet extenders". I recommend a 3 unit mesh system for your house. Put one beside the modem and plug directly into the modem. Put one behind your TV and use an ethernet cable to connect your console (and possibly your TV) to the mesh unit. Put the third unit upstairs in a central location or in an office/study room if you have one. You need to disable the wifi signal coming from your modem to avoid wifi conflicts. If you have Sky internet and Sky TV this can be tricky to do because Sky TV force enables Sky wifi. There are work arounds such as making sure the Sky TV box is connected with ethernet rather than with wifi. I have used TP Link Deco mesh for years and find them excellent. Others recommend Asus. A wifi 5 system is cheap and good for 300MBs or so wifi speeds. I currently have a three unit wifi 6+ system and we are getting 700MBs+ wifi speeds and over 900MBs on devices plugged directly into the mesh units. I assume Wifi 7 is even better but it costs more. Just try to make sure you get a tri band mesh system so that you can use all three wifi bands (2.5, 5 and 6 GHz.)

This is exactly the set I have. Works great in. Two storey House.