Deco XE75

Wifi 5 is 12 years old, don't buy it. Wifi 6 is the minimum you should buy. Wifi 6E adds 6GHz support, Wifi 7 adds some features for higher efficiency. Tri-band operation isfairly important for good mesh performance, that leaves the 6GHz band open for your clients and 5GHz can be used for the connection between units. A 3 pack of Deco XE75 are 226 euro, I would go that route. Should be comparable to the Eero Pro 6E units. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Deco-XE75-Tri-Band-Comprehensive-Protection/dp/B09ZRY9YHB If your house has coaxial cable purchase some Moca 2.5 adapters. Using them to create wired links for the mesh network will substantially improve performance.

I just bought the tp link deco xe75 pro on amazon, they have a 20% back of using prime Visa card. Otherwise the Xe75 non pro is identical minus no 2.5G port.

I just bought the tp link deco xe75 pro on amazon, they have a 20% back of using prime Visa card. Otherwise the Xe75 non pro is identical minus no 2.5G port.

Super cool I bumped into this. I have 3 xe75 (non pro, all wireless). Range is extreme but I was itching for unnecessary wifi 7 (there were some be2x promos). Saved me the money xD

I have installed over 200 mesh systems in houses 3K to 13k sq feet. The larger homes had a few Ethernet drops to aid in reliability. All worked fine over the last 3 years. Precise Placement and signal testing is required or reliability suffers. I use certain deco units I confirmed as reliable and I always wait until a model has been out for 12 months. Note- the feds may cause a problem for many non USA models early next year, but millions of home would be affected so I am not currently worried. They want commitments to have devices produced in the USA and firmware monitored for callbacks to other countries (and possible fed back doors some speculate)

I ditched my whole Deco XE 75 for an Eero setup and couldn't be happier. Went from constant disconnects and issues requiring at least one reboot each day to maybe triggering a reboot once a month more out of safety than necessity. Night and day difference. Guess my problem wasn't the Cable Modem like TP-Link's Level 3 support guy told me just before he ghosted me after 2 weeks of middle of the night IT sessions with China.

I went with the Eero 6E. 3 units cover my whole house and yard without issue (2700 ft2). I've got probably 50 smart home connections all running without issue. I did add one 2.4 ghz network extender to reach an outdoor generator that I was having issues with but probably didn't even need to do that (we later found out there was a faulty wifi module in the generator that was causing it to drop). To swap over my network I just ripped out the XE75 setup and set up the Eero with the exact same SSID name. Boom - every single thing in my house was up and running and I didn't have to reposition anything. It probably took me 10 minutes. I've been super happy with the switch. I'm not doing any crazy high performance network stuff, but I'm usually streaming 2 or 3 4K devices, running the whole Sonos system across the house, and working or gaming on 2 or 3 computers simultaneously with zero issues. Prior to my XE75 I had a Netgear Orbi setup (the original) and had more problems with that than I do with the Eero ... but nothing was as bad as the XE75. And the nice thing was I was unload the XE75 for 70% of what I paid via Facebook Marketplace.

3x XE75 Pro has been great in our 3-storey house. 6GHz wireless backbone. Even better now they're in AP mode and I have OPNsense as router, firewall and DHCP/DNS server.

I have a three-pack XE75 Pro system, ground floor connected with 2.5gE to my OPNsense router which has its WAN port plugged directly into my BT ONT port. Then the other mesh nodes are one per floor with 6GHz backhall in our 3-storey new build and am getting solid 925Mbps on my wired network and total coverage on WiFi at around 800Mbps+ on my Samsung phone. I have an extensive homelab and IoT/home automation system with over 100 endpoints.

I have a three-pack XE75 Pro system, ground floor connected with 2.5gE to my OPNsense router which has its WAN port plugged directly into my BT ONT port. Then the other mesh nodes are one per floor with 6GHz backhall in our 3-storey new build and am getting solid 925Mbps on my wired network and total coverage on WiFi at around 800Mbps+ on my Samsung phone. I have an extensive homelab and IoT/home automation system with over 100 endpoints.

While nothing beats wired connections, if you buy the slightly more expensive tri-band mesh systems, like the deco 75xe, the nodes communicate using the 6ghz band, leaving the bands 2.4 and 5ghz free for your devices.