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I would get * TP-Link Deco BE75 * 1 covers around 2,500 sq. ft depends on walls and placement, so you need at least 2 if you want to cover the garage too. * you will need 3-4 if you really want to cover like large area outside your house, I would place them near windows, and it will reach really far outside. * https://www.tp-link.com/us/deco-mesh-wifi/product-family/deco-be75/ * https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Deco-BE75-AI-Roaming-2-Pack/dp/B0CQMH8T7P yes its higher price, but it supports * 3 x 2.5 Ports * 1 x 10 Port * 1 x SFP+ Port / FIBER Internet Down the road, you can install FIBER on it, future proof, pay more now, save lots of money later. # People are going to tell you to run CAT6E cables all over the house and drill holes in walls and do all this work, Wi-Fi Technology has advanced way pass this, trust me when I say this, you wont notice the difference, the speed you will get its near what you get from ISP direct cable connection. Yes you will get better speed "reliability" with wired connection, but you wont really notice the difference over Wi-Fi XD It really depends how your house is build, you wont really know if you have to run CAT6E or not until you test 2 Decos and connection speeds.
You dont have to do wired backhaul at all if you dont want to. Been running a three node mesh wirelessly for a couple years. (Linksys MX8500 6E). Main Node (Router) in my Office on far end of the hose. One node halfway down the basement stairs on a ledge in the Middle of the house, and one node in the far corner of the dining room on the other end. Tons of IOT devices, multiple streaming TV's, Console, and I work from Home on VPN all day. My PC gets 950Mbps download, all the IOT works great, all TV's work great streaming. Get a good three node mesh and you will be fine. It works better if the two satellite nodes are about the same distance away from the main node and not in a line (think star connection instead of linear hops). Wireless mesh was designed for wireless backhaul. YES there are advantages to wired backhaul, but you dont need it. Anyone on here that had horrible experiences either didnt know what they were doing, had walls made out of concrete and steel, or had a POS mesh. Go with a Wi-Fi 7 Mesh...BE63 is cheap and works great after F/W updates. If you can swing it, get the better tier BE67/68 or even step up to the BE77.
TP Link Deco 6e and Deco 7 have worked very well for us in two homes. The Deco app is very intuitive and easy to use. One of them (Deco 6e) has 26 components on it. This link is to a post I made a few days ago about a feature to look for when shopping for mesh WiFi systems. Lots of dissenting opinions about the advice. But the indisputable fact is that I had connection issues with five components and the ability to manually select the WiFi band fixed them and they stayed fixed. Good luck! https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/s/L5Owua2okN
Fuck tp link. I bought a wifi 7 one and shit sucks. Went back to my Asus. Glad to know it wasn't just my router
Tp-links newest WiFi 7 router is sick for the price.
After I said to hell with my Xfinity router I tried a netgear nighthawk and tp link (whatever their WiFi 7 model is) and settled on Ubiquiti udr7. It’s pretty much the same price to the others, or at least in the ball park, and I’m not exaggerating when I say it is 1000x’s the product of those others. I’m sucked into the ecosystem now but after trying out other home networking solutions I really think ubiquiti is in a league of their own, and for what the udr7 gives you I think they could actually charge way more for it
A $99 TP Link from Walmart that has WiFi 7. Works well, has lots of nice features.
I got the Deco Wi-Fi 7 mesh and usually see 800+ on my devices except for devices that are only using the wireless backhaul. I’ve been very happy with it. Believe it is app only admin though. In my head, the wireless back haul is only done on 2.4 GHz so it would be limited throughput regardless of vendor. I think Unify is probably the leader for this , Orbi is probably a close second. Unless you want to get slightly complicated and use Fortinet.
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