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BlitzBattalionIdk why you got down voted but I spent about 160 bucks to get two TP-Link Deco XE70 Pro from Amazon to replace my Eero Pro 6e +extender. I also have increased speeds and range. From my research seems like best bang for the buck. That being said the 300 bucks package here is alright if you want to stay in the same ecosystem. Not a crazy deal, but if you need it, you need it.
csmflynt36E triband that is an easy one
Environmental_Day558Have the 6e tri band units but be returning them and switching to the 7 dual band ones. I have ethernet runs going from my basement to the living room and each bedoom so all the deco units and everything else that can be connected via wire will be. So I'll only need the 5ghz band for phones and laptops. All the iot stuff will be on the 2.4. I really just rather have the 2.5gb ports. If you are relying mostly on wifi then the tri band is better.
Gotcha. Being that you're in an apt and rely on more on wifi I'd still go with the 6e tri band. You'd have a much more reliable connections and will probably see higher sustained speeds than the wifi 7 dual band, especially if you have a lot of devices hooked up to it. Unless you want to future proof yourself and spring out extra $$ for the wifi 7 tri band system.
>I didn’t want to have to put one port into a switch just to send it back to another deco Why not? Switches are pretty cheap. This is how I have mine set up ISP router (in IP passthrough mode) > main deco > switch > deco 2 > switch > deco 3 You can have the deco's in AP mode and just let your ISP router do the routing if you want but I just find that you lose features like being able to isolate certain devices from your main network and set up a custom DNS (if your ISP router doesn't allow you to do it like mine).
Jtiago44I have xe70 pros which is the same as these. They're fine as a mesh but the CPU inside can't handle heavy traffic when wired backhaul (2 core CPU) I had to buy a separate router and turned on AP mode. All's well now.
loonie01I have a TP-Link x70 pro mesh (3 nodes) system behind TMHI. I just put them in AP mode. Everything works like normal.
NnyanGetting 1Gps wireless is going to require specific clients and a higher end mesh (likely WiFi 7). So you really need to specify a budget. High level you want a 3 unit (unless you meant 3 floors + the basement, then 4 units). Get a tri-band unit. I have great success with the Eero Pro 6E, Asus XT12s (really hard to find now but XT8/9 are easy to find and have really solid performance for the price). The Deco BE63 are on sale and WiFi 7 and the XE70s are solid.
Ok-Performance-7382I just switched from Eero Pro 6 to a TP-Link Deco XE70 Pro. My interest speeds have increased and range of signal has increased as well.
purespeed44XE70 pro would work very well it’s priced very well and while the XE75 is a good system the XE70 seems to be a tad faster loading pages and so on atleast in my experience it was a tad faster especially wirelessly which it should be the opposite but the XE70 pro is rock solid
Look into tp link one mesh setup or easy mesh setup tp link has 4 systems One Mesh is 1 tp link compatible router with 1 compatible extender to form a mesh system. This system can only use extenders to form a mesh. Easy mesh is Multiple tp link compatible routers and or extenders. This is usually the better choice as you can use other compatible routers and not just extenders. Deco is the 3rd mesh system and is not compatible with anything else except deco models and all models work together but the fastest model should be your main and the others as satellites. Then there’s the business class systems which is Omada
The XE70 pro is very solid
