Mesh WiFi upgrade

IvanDobskey

IvanDobskey

IvanDobskey

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Ok, so I have my lovely new full fibre 900mb connection, but my old deco p9's are a serious bottleneck. I get 500mb over WiFi in the lounge, but only 150mb in my office.

The main router is in the lounge and I want the best possible speed up in my office over the garage. Really don't want to mess around with cabling.

Wondering whether to go with deco Px50 ax3000's which are dual band WiFi 6 with plc backhaul. So basically an upgraded version of what I currently have.

Or get the Deco xe75's which are triband WiFi 6e.

Suggestions?
 
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Amazon eero Pro 6E mesh Wi-Fi 6E router system

They're on sale at the moment, I saved nearly 50% on a pair.
 
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uvarvu said:
They're on sale at the moment, I saved nearly 50% on a pair.
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Maybe best to delete competitor links :)

Thanks for the suggestion, would rather stick to deco's if possible as I think I can always keep my p9's in the network for extra coverage as they are all compatible.
 
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OcUK do sell routers so we'd rather you don't specifically link to a competitor. I have edited the link.
 
Assuming plc is powerline, I would be more worried that will still be the main bottleneck even if you go for a better set, I hardly ever see them link to their advertised speeds as it greatly depends on how good the electrical wiring is done around the building. The P9 themselves is advertised as 1gb for powerline and seeing you're only getting 150mb odd seems to show it really is bottlenecking your wireless speeds.
 
The powerline is just used for backhaul I think.

I'm leaning towards a 3x pack of deco x75's

Edit: ordered the deco's for £419
 
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I'm a Unifi user at my home, but looking for a family member. Considering the Deco E4 units x 3 and they have wired backhaul available at the house. Router is currently Virgin, but I may swap it for Untangle etc. However thought is sort the wireless out. They lost their father last year and I know the kids moan a lot re the wireless. Ideally want them off it and doing things, but if it reduces the moaning it'll be one less thing their Mum gets upset about.
 
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Oddly enough I have some Deco X20’s in for testing, they are only wifi6 rather than 6e, but easily managing 700mbit via Wi-Fi node to node on different floors with solid walls in the way out of the box with less than optimal positioning. For circa £100 for a pair delivered from the usual suspects, it may be the first mesh set-up I actually keep. Bonus points being the lower end M5’s etc. are cheap for dead spots and with wired back haul in AP mode, they are ideally suited to those of us running dedicated router distro’s such as *sense/Untangle/DDWRT etc.
 
Ordered a twin pack of X50s for £122 today from that well known place, looks like they are on a special. 3 pack (actually X55, which are just black X50s) available for £189.

Seems like they'll have more than enough thruput for my 300M connection, and will still be good should I go to 1GB. So price point and functionality looked sweet for what I need.

Looks to me like Wifi mesh tech is already good enough for consumer use. Given that the high end consumer internet speed is 1Gb, and 2 yr old mesh tech can push that thru most houses, for consumers (which I assume is by far the biggest use of mesh systems), wifi6 looks fine, little techncial need for 6e never mind 7. Consumer use is all about moving data from the internet to the end device, the amount of consumers moving data between devices must be negligible.
 
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