Deco XE5300

I bought Wi-Fi 6 routers (AX53 and AX23) for my mesh system, and these are fast enough for a 1 Gbps internet connection. When I have a faster internet connection, I'll buy routers with 10 Gbps ports. For now, Wi-Fi 6 is fine for me, at least for years. "Future proofing" is just throwing money out of the window.

I have set up a Deco system for someone, specifically the XE5300, was very easy to set up for them and was able to get them on custom DNS which is all that was really needed, I need to get back and check the app again for them, I know TP Link is added encrypted DNS to some units and would prefer to get them on my ControlD setup via DoH.

No not really, there just is not much you can really do to the devices in the app, just set it up and that is about it, there are some advanced features but nothing that would break anything. You can choose which band to have mesh over, you can also hardwire them to each other, or use them in AP only mode.

In two houses now I have used TP-Link — they have been very very reliable for me. Am currently using 3x XE5300 (AXE5300 set from Costco) I got from Costco on sale last year’s Black Friday or the year before. Have been great. I’ve got them configured in Access Point mode, and connected to my Spectrum Router with the router’s WiFi turned off. Current I’m using the 6GHz channel for backhaul. In a previous house I used TP-Link Deco M5s throughout my large country home (3700 sq ft) plus additional Deco M5s in one small outbuilding (guesthouse) and one large outbuilding (office, storage and workshop) plus a outdoor pool and large deck area. I had the large outbuilding connected to the main house via a Ubiquiti high speed point-to-point wireless. And had all the M5’s connected to Gigabit switches for wired backhaul and PoE. Again M5’s were in AP mode. And the house was served by a 1GB bi-dir fiber feed from the Internet provider. Overall a great set up. If I were installing today in a new to me house, I’d get the TP-Link Deco BE11000 3 pack on sale at Costco right now. In both houses I had 70+ clients including apple PCs, Windows PCs, smarthome (Google, Apple & Amazon), music (Apple Homepod Minis), plus iPhones and Androidn phones & tablets. No issues at all, and support roaming across the mesh.

Thanks. How much further distance did the 3 pack eero pro 6 mesh units worked in your case? I have tried the Deco AXE5300 mesh and it didn’t even work more than 30-40 ft away.

As a counterpoint, I have a Deco XE5300 system that is rock solid. I recently decided to invest in moca adapters to let me move my server & hubs, as our cable comes into the house in a really weird place. I’ve found the Deco system really easy to use and configure and quite reliable. OP I don’t know if it’s your specific units, or if you have suboptimal placement, or not enough units, but I don’t think there’s some fundamental flaw with this product like which makes it useless.

Recently moved off my TP Link Deco Mesh X5300 system. Was working great until I was getting consistent drops from a few different smart devices. I went with UniFi Dream Router 7! So far so good. Now converting all of my smart home devices over to Home Assistant with a HomeKit bridge to enable items in HomeKit.

I 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.