Idk 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.
Have 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).
I 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.
Getting 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.
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