TP-Link - Deco XE5300 (AXE5300) Wi-Fi 6E Tri-Band Mesh Wi-Fi System

I had TPLINK Deco Mesh - TP-Link Deco AXE5300 Wi-Fi 6E Tri-Band Whole-Home Mesh Wi-Fi System, 3-Pack Every time Spectrum went down, which is about once a month here on eastern NC, I had to call Spectrum and ask them to “reprovision” the modem. And then the TPLINK mesh would reconnect, I finally gave up and replaced it with Spectrum router Same equipment works flawlessly with Verizon FIOS 1GB in Northern Virginia, same stuff. Do not use TPLINK mesh with Spectrum, you will regret it. Also, you will get NO HELP from Spectrum. Their tech support is awful and worse than no support, they give the illusion of helping

If you are a Costco member or know one the AEX5300 is the same as the XE75 but even cheaper, they are the exact same. Your assumptions are going to be wrong, price !== quality. If you want to spend more money look at a Unifi Express 7/Dream Router 7 with a U7 Lite.

A simple mesh setup might do the trick, if costco members the AXE5300 is usually a good deal there at $230 for three units, just set them up in a V shape and use the unit on the top floor as the starting point. There are cheaper options on tp links website too, just look at budget and look at probably a three unit and if only two are needed, just keep the other as a spare. EDIT: The AXE5300 not from Costco is the XE75. EDIT EDIT: They can be set up as one as the router, so the ISP device if that is what is being used would just be in bridge mode as a modem or they can be set up as AP mode so just for wireless and just turn off wireless on the ISP device. To add they have ethernet ports, so if put near TVs and other medias just plug those devices in to the units this will help with coverage, the saying is to get better wifi get devices off wifi.

As a counterpoint, I have a Deco XE5300 system that is rock solid. I recently decided to invest in moca adapters to let me move my server & hubs, as our cable comes into the house in a really weird place. I’ve found the Deco system really easy to use and configure and quite reliable. OP I don’t know if it’s your specific units, or if you have suboptimal placement, or not enough units, but I don’t think there’s some fundamental flaw with this product like which makes it useless.

I just installed the TP Link Deco AXE5300 from Costco in my townhouse. Works great. Is it the best? IDK, but it was only $200, so I'm happy.

I literally just switched this week from ac1200 to deca axe5300 and I had a backhand wired network. I went from sluggish 80-100 mbps to about 600 mbps on wifi on the new system. if you have the opportunity to do a backhaul, then a new system like mine would be super great upgrade. otherwise if you're running on wireless mesh, you would still get a great upgrade (I tested wireless and got about 300mbps dl/up consistent on wireless).

TP Link Deco 6E - had it for about 2 years and it's been good and super reliable. There were some concerns recently about TP Link routers phoning home to China, so something worth looking into I guess if you're worried. The management app (so take it for what it is, requires a phone app to manage) is decent, although a little annoying with the upsell of the safety suite. The feature set is great - guest network, IoT network, QoS, VPN server and client, 3 ports (only gigabit though) on each device, and 6Ghz wireless backhaul (or wired is also supported). At the time the Wifi 7 model just came out and was much more expensive so I didn't really see the point. If I were buying a new router today I'd probably go for a Wifi 7 model. Another upgrade in that is it looks like the Wifi 7 model has 1x10Gbps port and 2x2.5Gbps so that's some good future-proofing right there. Came from having Google Wifi, which I think was overall a little bit better, but I'm not upset about it. Obviously Ubiquiti is the gold standard if you wanna go that deep into it, but for a more casual (and much more affordable) solution I am not upset with my Deco. It's about $300 for 1 - have a 3-pack (~$700). If you don't need mesh, I've had good luck with Asus routers in the past and last I heard reviews for them are pretty good. Around $300 the TUF BE3600 looks like it might have all modern features you'd want.

They are incredible and simple. I’ve had a setup with the WiFi 6e ones, and now have one with WiFi 7 ones. Literally stellar performance. Do you have first hand experience?

I've had the deco 6e system with several 5 nodes because of the how spread out I need the signal to reach. I'm disappointed in how the legacy nodes perform. The speeds drop off significantly (in my experience). I'm waiting till black Friday sales to either switch ecosystems or get more of the newer nodes. I'm just disappointed in how the older nodes should be able to handle 500 down easily and yet underperform consistently. I'm over 1gb on the 6e though so no real complaints there. I have the old nodes because I've been a tp link mesh customer for over 5 years now.

I have the Wi-Fi 6E deco with the dedicated wireless backhaul and it's been bulletproof.

Not sure if you mean you have coax and ethernet on each floor? If so this makes it fairly simple, a few steps to get this working. Mesh wifi would make sense, especially if each router can be centrally located and connected via ethernet. Personally I use the tp-link deco 6e mesh and I'm happy with it. It looks like you have some ethernet cables already connected to your main router, if those cables go to spots in your home that would be where you'd put your mesh wifi routers, then your done. From there you will need to disable the wifi on the ISP router, commonly called putting it in "bridge mode". Your order of connection would look somewhat like this. All connected via ethernet. ISP router - > Ethernet switch - > mesh wifi hardware If you'd like to utilize all those hanging blue ethernet cables you'd have to terminate them your looking for something called an ethernet crimper, lots on amazon. Hope that helps, let me know if you need any more clarification.