Deco X55 AX3000 Whole Home Mesh WiFi 6 System

I've used the S4 AC1900 trio (older but worked well), along with the X55 trio. Still Wifi 6 but decent coverage. The one failure was the Eero Mesh 6, stopped working but got a replacement set from Amazon and shipped the old set back. No problems since then.

4 y/o Netgear Nighthawk MR60 whacked out 5 days ago -couldn’t keep but a few of the 70 devices that previous work fine. I added one ring 5 GHz camera and everything started to get the shakes. Hard boots slow adding of devices I couldn’t get anything to work. Many hours of frustration!!! ordered a TP-Link Deco‘s X 60 3 unit for $140. Amazon had an X 55 three node for $150 AI scoped out my picture and suggested x60, why the x55 gives 3 ethernet ports vs x60 with 2. Hardwiring 1 of 2 satellites, should have no problems for next 5 years - right? Any thoughts.

I running openwrt on m720q i3-9100 8gb ram and one nic,2 vlan's wan and lan and for wifi deco x55 as access point fiber 1000/100 whit pppoe,on full 1000 download the cpu is 5-10 percent,yes the m720q is overkill for openwrt but i scoret two of them for free so why not,if you dont want to mess whit H/W NAT run openwrt on x84 any modern cpu give you full speed.

Untrue. Deco units are true mesh and can relay as far as you want albeit at reduced bandwidth.  You’re thinking or orbi that has dedicated satellite nodes. 

I have the TP-Link Deco X55 (3-point system) but am using ethernet backhaul and have seamless roaming enabled. It’s marketed as a mesh system but is it more correct to say that it is *capable* of mesh (wireless) but also capable of acting as router and wired WAPs? Is it accurate to say that I’m not using it as a mesh system since I’m using ethernet backhaul?

I have the X55 (3-pack, ethernet connection). ~~The 3-pack idea won’t work the way you think it will. The nodes don’t act as wireless relays. Both satellite nodes must connect directly with the primary node. Now if you have the 2nd and 3rd nodes connected to each other with ethernet, then the 3rd node’s signal strength should be equally as strong as the 2nd node but you’d want to make sure the 2nd node has a connection with the primary node before you connect the 3rd node to the 2nd (I’m guessing).~~ You’re better off just running a long ethernet from the router to your office. If you got the 2-pack, then an ethernet connection will carry the full signal strength to the second node so you’d at least have strong wifi on both sides of the apartment. Just make sure Fast Roaming is enabled for a seamless experience.

OMG, so the speed halves at each hop, that’s why it feels like node 3 communicates directly to node 1. Thanks for the correction. Sorry to mislead you, u/No_Phrase_7698

Whatever you get, an ethernet connection will always be better than wifi. In fact, Google Fiber’s website indicates that advertised speeds are intended for wired connections. For what it’s worth, I have the TP-Link Deco X55 (because I’m on a budget) with wired backhaul and speed tests over wifi show 0-3ms on jitter (the lower your jitter, the better for gaming and conferencing). Ubiquiti is known as the prosumer brand. Anything from them will beat TP-Link by a landslide.

Products are one thing. How you use the products are another thing. I have the TP-Link Deco but it *is* the budget brand of what you listed (yet still miles ahead of the garbage that ISPs provide). Its web interface lacks a lot of configuration ability and requires the Deco app for most configuration. And some features are locked behind a paywall like parental controls. I’m fine with it (since I have other means of parental control) but if I ever upgrade, I’ll probably go with Ubiquity. Wire up as much as you can, make a separate network just for your IoT devices, and if you have multiple access points, try to wire them together and enable seamless roaming.