TP-Link - Deco M5

What it is: It'll give you a single Wifi Network across your property. 'Wifi boosters' force you to have multiple networks to join. My TP Link Deco plugs into my router, and is my 'main' wifi network. The router still puts out a network, but nothing uses it. Other benefits - their software (apps) are great and you can whip up guest wifi networks easily, or networks for use by 'suspicious gadgets' that need the internet, but you don't want them on the same network as your phone and PC. We've got 3 nodes in the house - one in the router, then two upstairs. You might get away with 2. I've got the M5s, but maybe the S7 (AC1900) might be a good fit - [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B8DXJ8XP?th=1](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B8DXJ8XP?th=1)

So, we've finally been graced by Full Fibre Broadband and after years of getting a whopping 13mbps 😏, we now have 530mbps Ookla speed reading from our modem router (Vodafone Powerhub 6) 🙌 EDIT: We're in UK 🇬🇧 We use Deco M5 mesh which pulls 450mb at about 10ft away from the main unit wired into the Vodafone router down to about 80mbps in the furthest spots in the house from 2 other M5 units (and most importantly my 14yo gaming mad son's room) which is a bit pants given the speed we can get closer to the router Very blessed as we are to live in a large old farmhouse with thick walls, this doesnt help my wifi predicament 🤣 I appreciate that other than hardwiring satellite units around my house we'll never achieve that 530mb speed all around but there must be something that can help boost it more? Before I go out and blindly spend £££s on something that won't be much better....does any kind soul have any advice (go easy on the tech speak though, im not as much as a tech dinosaur 🦕 as my husband, but I have my limits 🤣) TIA!

Thanks for the suggestion, I've managed to strategically place one of the decos nr his doorway and ran an ethernet cable to PS5 and Voila, he is getting 235mbps to it now instead of 71 that the ps5 measured prior to the LAN connection. Hardwiring the whole house is the ideal but will take some replastering and ripping up of carpets/wood flooring so im gonna stick with this until we have work done. Hes happier now with 200+ ☺️

I appreciate the time each of you have taken to reply, thankyou.. we do own the property and could hardwire the house, however it is a period property with much "period" decor such as decorative coving, and multi level stairs 🤦‍♀️ which makes it tricky to chase wires into walls to get up to ceilings. It has however, given me some food for thought in preparation for when we next decorate as there may be an option at that time to pull a connection up into the floorboards and at least get a couple of points upstairs to place in individual rooms As @hdelared commented, it may be a short term option to buy a newer Deco to wire to the modem as I need another anyway to launch it further into the kitchen . Really appreciate the help all, and if nothing else has improved, at least my son has better speeds and actually as I've found today a ping of 9! Which he is over the moon at too! It was about 70 before FF.

Just get a Flint 2 and call it a day, also the I had deco m5 around my home due to bad signal from the ISP router but since getting the Flint I've now got rid as it covers all the house

Currently using Deco X20 and 3 M5?/3?, hoping to switch to Ubiquiti once they have a U7 Mesh. Running a cloud gateway ultra already so eventual transition to Ubiquiti is expected.

Who is your ISP? I recently swapped to the tp deco pack from Costco and it’s fantastic. I do have to make sure a disconnect the WiFi on my isp router but after that it works pretty much flawlessly. I did have to change which unit was my main unit because of some range issues initially.

Upside of living in an old farmhouse: I love those buildings. If it has been there for 100 years, it will probably be there for 100 more (with maintenance, of course) Downside of living in an old farmhouse: Oftentimes the walls are lath & plaster. That stuff EATS wireless signals. It gets even worse if anyone has ever used chicken wire when plastering the walls. Turns the whole house into a Faraday cage where no wireless signal can escape. The Deco M5 supports "Wired Backhaul", where, instead of sacrificing half of your wifi signal to link all of the mesh units together, you can run network cable. Even old cable can do the trick, over short distances. (*I have Cat5e cable in my house, and all of my systems connect at 2500mbps. I can max out my 2.3Gbps fibre internet connection.*) If you, or someone you know who is good at running cable, can run Cat5e or Cat6 network cables to the other two M5 units, you will notice a drastic increase in performance. Personally, I like having at least one cable running to each room in the house, all to one centralized spot near your router.

Power line was not stable in my house with frequent needs to restart. It just did not work good enough. Mesh (Deco M5) gives much better results. It all depends on your situation

I tried a Deco M5 and it didn't really meet my needs. it lived up the oft repeated refrain that mesh networks aren't any good. I decided to return it and explore a variety of other options. in these, I decided to give mesh a second try - but this time with an XE75. And holy cow - I love it. The M9 is pretty much a supercharged version of the M5, but the XE75 is a big step forward. It might be worth giving a shot (hopefully with free returns?). I serially love mine. Nothing to rewire - just some devices to replace (you could also redeploy the M9s if desired after putting the XE75s in their place on the wired backhaul).

I'm super happy with my Deco XE75. Whether it will work of ryou depends on a lot of information not provided. * Floor plan * Building materials * Cables available in house (ethernet or coax) A lot of people talk smack about mesh and it does have some drawbacks, but again - I'n ecstatic with the performance of my XE75. I tried and M5 before it, and it failed pretty miserably. I had planned to do some additional work to beef up the XE75 but I did a quick superficial install and realized I didn't need to add anything to it. It totally outperformed expectations. Full speed through the property. Perhaps it could work for you. Or maybe not (since again - various factors), but it's easy enough to set up and test, and some free turn policy could give you ample opportunity to try it out.

Seconding TP-Link Deco. I've got a hybrid set up of M9 and M5 units (including one M5 in a detached garage) that's been rock solid for years.

I've been running Deco m5's for years. I love their mesh product. I've had no problems with traffic on my network no matter what I'm doing streaming, gaming etc. Frequently have five TVs all streaming (kids), never have with a game now I do have a gig plus connection from Comcast. And I rent the Comcast modem so I can maintain that gig speed. I also have each one of my mesh access points connected in over cat6 connected to a gigabit switch. But with networking, it always helps to set priority on certain traffic. So I have all critical devices on as high priority.