Deco BE23 (BE3600 Whole Home Mesh WiFi 7 System)

I bought the **TP-Link Archer BE3600** for **$179.00** after price-matching at Officeworks. I’m on a Superloop 500 Mbps plan, and it’s working really well for my needs. I wouldn’t spend $300 on an overpriced router wheny you are not paying for a super high-speed internet—this one does the job perfectly. Just dont get confused by internet lol cause i was in the same boat as you! ALSO ASUS IS OVERRATED FOR THE PRICE.

I just recently moved into an older home built in the 70’s, that’s 2600sqft 2 story. 4 bed rooms and an office. Running completely wireless using the tp link deco kit with 1gb service from xfinity. The modem and main deco unit is in the office closet up stairs, the other unit is on the same floor but on the other side of the house and then the 3rd unit is in the daylight basement. I let the modem do the dhcp work so i can keep my nas connected to it wired. My devices can pull around 500 plus mbs oj average at place in the house. Im running about 56 devices. Between xbox series x, apple tv, 3 roku tvs, wife works from home and is on teams calls all day. https://us.store.tp-link.com/collections/mesh-wifi/products/deco-wifi-7-dual-band-be3600-mesh-system-3-pack-be23?country=US¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22911401016&gbraid=0AAAAA-7-kORese9ldL1eyrnq3Zra4tcVx&gclid=Cj0KCQiAo4TKBhDRARIsAGW29bdRM9jE8EGck8XG5A2amwlJi50fMZXw0WJuASExtzjNO7BUDhe5pbYaApJhEALw_wcB

The TP-Link BE3600 3-pack is currently £200 - https://amzn.eu/d/en0RiVL Ive been using them with Virgin (Hub3 modem-mode, 350mb) for over a year. They're smaller than the X50s, height-wise, so you can buy wall mounts for them to place them in hallways near the stairs where the brick walls shouldn't affect the signal between them as much, while the X50s size means theyd need to be on the floor or a little table in a hallway or in a bedroom, so not centrally placed. If you can stretch to it, the 2.5G version (BE25) is £260, but if you're only using it for wifi (no wired devices) and since you're only on the 125mb plan with VM you don't need anything more than the BE3600's as it has Gigabit ports. If you **can** wire them together with a decent length of cat6, the routers have whats called a backhaul between them and they use the Gigabit speed to transfer the data back and forth rather than wifi, so your wifi devices should get a fairly decent speed boost from their closest connected router. Without the backhaul, speeds obviously have a noticeable drop the further from the main router the other mesh devices are, but the kids haven't complained while playing their games and their speed tests are still close to 150mb, (before I set up the mesh they would be lucky to get 20mb from a single router on the ground floor) Edit: fixed Amazon link

Damn... you seem to be correct that they do not include a wifi router with their fiber packages by default until the 10G package (you can pay extra to have one) - it's on their website. Honestly - ANY modern router will work, and if price is an issue, you should be able to go to an electronics store, find the cheapest one that has a product model name that begins with AC, AX, or BE, and call it a day... but you may as well go for a current WiFi 7 unit --- I can confidently recommend the TP-Link Archer BE3600 .... It's about $100, often on sale for less, is a solid unit that is dead-simple to set up and just works well... It doesn't have 6GHz though, which is honestly not really too important if you're going with a 250Mbps plan. You CAN use their app to set it up, but you can also do the web browser way which I find much easier anyways. Also.... Holy shit - is it really $71/MTH for 250Mbit!? And they don't even give you a router???

I just upgraded to this mesh network last week after 7 years on a Google wifi mesh network and it’s been great so far: [https://a.co/d/01AXmpI6](https://a.co/d/01AXmpI6) For context, about 3600 sq ft home, my office is in the basement and the main router is a floor above on the other side of the home.