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

In two houses now I have used TP-Link — they have been very very reliable for me. Am currently using 3x XE5300 (AXE5300 set from Costco) I got from Costco on sale last year’s Black Friday or the year before. Have been great. I’ve got them configured in Access Point mode, and connected to my Spectrum Router with the router’s WiFi turned off. Current I’m using the 6GHz channel for backhaul. In a previous house I used TP-Link Deco M5s throughout my large country home (3700 sq ft) plus additional Deco M5s in one small outbuilding (guesthouse) and one large outbuilding (office, storage and workshop) plus a outdoor pool and large deck area. I had the large outbuilding connected to the main house via a Ubiquiti high speed point-to-point wireless. And had all the M5’s connected to Gigabit switches for wired backhaul and PoE. Again M5’s were in AP mode. And the house was served by a 1GB bi-dir fiber feed from the Internet provider. Overall a great set up. If I were installing today in a new to me house, I’d get the TP-Link Deco BE11000 3 pack on sale at Costco right now. In both houses I had 70+ clients including apple PCs, Windows PCs, smarthome (Google, Apple & Amazon), music (Apple Homepod Minis), plus iPhones and Androidn phones & tablets. No issues at all, and support roaming across the mesh.

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.

Yes. I have my TP Link Deco units connected via Ethernet.

Recently moved off my TP Link Deco Mesh X5300 system. Was working great until I was getting consistent drops from a few different smart devices. I went with UniFi Dream Router 7! So far so good. Now converting all of my smart home devices over to Home Assistant with a HomeKit bridge to enable items in HomeKit.

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.

I’m very happy with Tp link deco 6E

Ive had the Deco 4 and now Deco6e. I f'in love it! 3 pods and covers the house and property quite nicely.

I also have two deco 6e units, that are hard wired together. They work very well with my 25+ Sonos devices. The only problem I’ve had with them is that around 2 - 2.5 years an Ethernet port died on one of them. Then a month or so later the same thing happened to the other one. I already had a large switch plugged into it so it’s not the end of the world for me. The good thing is any port can be used for in/out automatically. I still recommend them even with the ports that died since they go on sale often and are pretty reasonably priced.