Last year, I bought 3 Deco E4s. They have a 100mbps ethernet port, which was fine for my situation. Now I have 150mbps FTTC, and I'm likely to get full fibre when my contract expires in 2 years. There's also a chance it'll go over 1gbit. We pay an extraordinary amount of money for slow internet because it keeps the landline around. When landlines are retired in 2 years (which is the only way to stop the elderly using them), we may pay less for 1gbit, or the same for 3.
I'm in London, so it'll probably be Community Fibre. I currently use EE, and their Home Hub which uses Wifi AC. I thought of connecting a Deco M4 or M5 to the router, then using the E4s wirelessly, but I considered 2 things: the M4 and E4 are AC. A wifi 6 router would have bigger range, maybe making them redundant. Secondly, the 1gbit port on the M4 might bottleneck me in the future the way the E4 did.
Honestly, my mesh routers have been a letdown. They're slow to switch and I'm not getting the range I want. Plus the 3rd one feels redundant, and my stuff's so close to the main router, the upstairs one seems pointless too.
My phone and PC now have wifi 6e, but the cheapest 6E router, the Tenda AXE5700, is called slow, unreliable and potentially backdoored. Then there's the LTT video where he says at the end that his phones stayed on 5ghz, refusing to switch to 6ghz. I'm considering a better, cheaper, faster wifi 6 router. Budget for 6E was £100, but I'd probably be looking at £50 for a 6.
What's mandatory though are 2 things: parent controls and a guest network, controllable through an app that multiple people can log into. If it's TP-link, it can't have Homeshield Pro. HSP has a bunch of parent controls gated off with a subscription service. I bought a TP-link router with HSP, and couldn't believe they wanted me to pay for stuff my E4 did for free. You had slightly more fine-tuning, but nothing worthy of paying extra after you already bought the router.
I'm in London, so it'll probably be Community Fibre. I currently use EE, and their Home Hub which uses Wifi AC. I thought of connecting a Deco M4 or M5 to the router, then using the E4s wirelessly, but I considered 2 things: the M4 and E4 are AC. A wifi 6 router would have bigger range, maybe making them redundant. Secondly, the 1gbit port on the M4 might bottleneck me in the future the way the E4 did.
Honestly, my mesh routers have been a letdown. They're slow to switch and I'm not getting the range I want. Plus the 3rd one feels redundant, and my stuff's so close to the main router, the upstairs one seems pointless too.
My phone and PC now have wifi 6e, but the cheapest 6E router, the Tenda AXE5700, is called slow, unreliable and potentially backdoored. Then there's the LTT video where he says at the end that his phones stayed on 5ghz, refusing to switch to 6ghz. I'm considering a better, cheaper, faster wifi 6 router. Budget for 6E was £100, but I'd probably be looking at £50 for a 6.
What's mandatory though are 2 things: parent controls and a guest network, controllable through an app that multiple people can log into. If it's TP-link, it can't have Homeshield Pro. HSP has a bunch of parent controls gated off with a subscription service. I bought a TP-link router with HSP, and couldn't believe they wanted me to pay for stuff my E4 did for free. You had slightly more fine-tuning, but nothing worthy of paying extra after you already bought the router.
