Deco BE65 BE9300 Whole Home Mesh WiFi 7 System

I live in the UK, and I am an EE customer on their top package, (guaranteed 1.8gbps) at all times, but often goes over 2gbps. I ditched the EE provided router as it wasnt that great for IoT and their provided Wifi Extenders were pretty rubbish and limited to WiFi 5 only. I instead replaced it with TP-Link Deco BE9300, which has been brilliant. I get great WiFi in all areas of my home, and I get solid 2gbps when hard wired, the addition of WiFi 6 allows me to use that on supported devices and its noticeable. In terms of the infrastructure so far, its pretty good, and I'm happy with my setup. However, the Deco's above have limited features in regards to traffic management and QoS. There is a QoS option but its basically you add a device, and thats about it, and from my testing it really doesnt do anything, making me think its not actually prgrammed very well and instead is just a tick box in the app to say it "has QoS" when in reality it is literally just a tick box. I need QoS mostly for gaming, as I live in a heavy useage internet household, and I most game these days through streaming services (GeForce NOW being the primary). I plan to buy a router, to do the routing for the house, and put the Deco's into AP mode hard wired to a new router. When i search "best gaming routers" there are a few key ones to choose from but most are £700+ it seems like a lot of money, and when I look at it, its because they all come with super robust features and a strong WiFi offering (which I wont be using, as my chosen router will end up with its WiFI off, opting to use the Deco as my WiFi solution.) I literally want recommendations on cost effective routers, that wil manage all the routing DHCP etc, but comes with solid QoS for gaming and supporting the gaming side. Also ideally a minimum of 2.5gbps ports. There are some solid routers around £100 - £150 like the Netgear XR500 (i used one of these years ago) but its limited to 1gbps on the ethernet. Does anyone know of any solid options that are cost effective?

So on my BE6500, I am on the MLO network (wifi7) it is backwards compatible, I get my full bandwidth to my cell phone which is wifi6 at 560Mbps, obviously Ethernet is still superior because it can send and receive at equal rates. But I think once network interface cards get better at being able to determine which frequency to use for sending and receiving depending on whether there is a stronger need for upload or download, WiFi 7 will be awesome.

I got a BE6500 TP link that I am very happy with, cost like 120

$150 is a tight budget for 10Gbps hardware, but you've got the right idea looking at Wi-Fi 7 units. The TP-Link BE6500 is a solid pick, though keep in mind it likely has 2.5Gbps ports. To actually see 5Gbps+, you’d need a much pricier router with 10GbE WAN/LAN ports.

Totally agree that mesh is the way to go. One thing to keep in mind with the brick veneer mentioned earlier: if Node 1 is in the garage, the signal has to punch through an external brick wall just to get to the rest of the house. In that specific layout, the extra cash for WiFi 7 (like the Deco BE85 or BE65) actually makes sense. It uses MLO (Multi-Link Operation), which lets the nodes talk to each other across multiple bands at the same time. It’s way better at 'punching' through that first brick wall and the floor to reach the upstairs node without the speeds dropping off a cliff. WiFi 6E is great, but WiFi 7 is built for exactly this kind of 'obstacle course' layout.

TP link deco BE65 wifi 7 or ( BE85 or 95) I had Orbi and replaced it with Deco. My house is kind of big with concrete walls and I really recommend the Deco

I had a couple Alien routers with the primary routers 2.4 radio died. I had to replace them quickly, I went with a trio of Deco 65's. I am amazed at how much better they are. No wired downhauls on the 2 mesh units. Ended up with 3 nets, SSID\_MLO, SSID, and SSID\_IoT. I can reserve and isolate devices. Perhaps not cheap but I expected to need a 3 unit mesh system for the size of my home. Homebase is ok, I wish all my cameras could just use my wi-fi as it is much stronger.

I have the Deco be65 wifi 7 3 pack and i am very happy with it on my 800squ block. Can reach all areas.

Have a deco be65 3 pack works great for my 800squ property