
eero
Pro 6 Series
Easy, reliable, smart home ready; but paid features.

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Post is a little old but seen it looking for something else. If your still researching, yes TP link has been great for me. I had the archer axe 5400 for a while, was losing signal and speed towards far corners of home so I bought the archer axe95. I set up the axe95 router as main, moved axe5400 router to another room, made longer cable to connect them, set the axe5400 to AP mode. It's not a true mesh network, but I set the router in AP mode with same wireless settings as main router with no issues. I don't notice phone swapping between routers, great signal strength and speed in whole house, front lawn, separate carport/small guest room, and whole back yard. Well outskirts of back yard speeds start dropping quickly.They have smart connect options so the router can use the 2.4 channels for IoT devices if it needs too. TP link has a super easy app you can use to setup/manage or connect directly with cat cable to setup/manage. There is also a good bit of videos available to walk you through this specific setup as well. They will however advised using different wireless names for ur AP mode router and it's probably the correct way, but I haven't had any issues using same wireless settings on both for what it's worth.
I’m running TPLink Deco x95… I grew tired of the app only interface (NO WEB BASED BROWSER FOR SETUP)… So they are now just wired backhaul access points to a TPLink archer AX6600. They are solid hardware wise… the deco software is a let down however. For reference I run home assistant with a heap of devices including cameras and a Plex server. I use HomeKit via a hard wired ATV4K and 6 HomePod minis through the house. Home assistant serves up alle devices and cameras to HomeKit without issue.
I have the 95 and love it. getting about 830 Mbit down no matter where I am at my house.
Such a huge upgrade from my w7200. No drops, no connection headaches, no issues with smart devices (save for a weird issue connecting local network to my pool equipment), and my wife was losing her mind as her WiFi was horrid and intermittent in her office with the last units and replacing them at same locations and she is now a solid 400mbit clean
I run my 85s in Access Point mode with my own firewall/router in front of the 85s. Hence the 85s just have to worry about serving up WiFi. They have been great. My firewall gets regular updates and hence I am not as concerned about update frequency. I was in the NETGEAR camp for about a decade and their update frequency was no better. I ultimately went Voxel with my NETGEARs. The rub with the 95 was that it splits the 6ghz band in 2 losing one of the wide MLO channels. My 2 downstairs I hardwired and hence I did not need dedicated wireless backhaul. I do have another upstairs over the garage, but that is for the kids, and I am not as concerned. So long as they can watch TV, and do their homework - they don’t need full bandwidth.
Tplink Deco WiFi 6 mega is amazing you will not be disappointed
I quite like the base model Deco sets and they do fine for lower/moderate speed setups. The M4 is dead cheap or the x something-or-othet is only about £180. Plus they're happy to be wired or mesh! When I say I like, I've installed them for a good few clients as a siple solution to good feedback and no issues to be honest!

eero
Pro 6 Series
Easy, reliable, smart home ready; but paid features.

TP-Link
Deco XE75 Pro
Great coverage, easy; but unreliable Ethernet, poor app.

eero
eero Max 7
Incredibly fast, reliable; but very expensive, limited control.

eero
eero Pro 7
Fast, reliable; but paid features, needs internet to function.

eero
eero 7
Easy, reliable coverage; but no 6GHz, paid features.