Which Mesh System?

a1ex2001 · 29 Jun 2020 at 19:22

I've pretty much decided to buy some Mesh kito beef up the WiFi signal in our house/garden, yes I know they are not perfect and I'd get better performance and stability hard wiring some access points but thats simply not happening!

So which one would you go for, currently I'm trying to choose bet between the thee node the TP-Link Deco M5 and the BT Whole home setup. The price difference is small and they both get good reviews. Which one would you buy or would you go for another system altogether?

IvanDobskey · 30 Jun 2020 at 12:09

I'm looking at the deco p9 currently. It mixes mesh wifi with powerline. Seems to get good reviews and reasonably priced.

WJA96 · 30 Jun 2020 at 18:56

If you’re with BT the Whole Home product is about as straightforward as it gets. It just does what it does. No fuss.

a1ex2001 · 30 Jun 2020 at 19:39

WJA96 said:
If you’re with BT the Whole Home product is about as straightforward as it gets. It just does what it does. No fuss.

I’m not with BT but I don’t think it matters which ISP your with.

Heisenberg · 30 Jun 2020 at 20:00

I got Netgear orbi and they work pretty flawless

MidKnight · 30 Jun 2020 at 20:17

Another Orbi user here (Orbi 6) and it works flawlessly so far.

RockSteddy · 30 Jun 2020 at 23:48

I've been using Google Wi-Fi for nearly two years now and its been rock solid. It does not have the most advanced settings so if you like to tinker it is not the best but for easy set-up and ease of use its great.

HeadlessChicken · 1 Jul 2020 at 10:10

Deco 5 user. Very happy, super easy setup, good controls, excellent speeds too. (Victorian house with beefy brick walls)

a1ex2001 · 1 Jul 2020 at 12:07

MidKnight said:
Another Orbi user here (Orbi 6) and it works flawlessly so far.

the only thing puting me off the orbi is the price! We don't hammer our internet connection so it is mainly just browsing, skype calls and some streaming

IvanDobskey · 1 Jul 2020 at 14:14

The orbi does seem expensive to me.

doopydug · 1 Jul 2020 at 17:28

I am with Virgin whose routers are terrible - using the whole home setup from BT, I am astonished how well the wifi works now - literally getting No loss in speed from one end of the house to the other whereas, before, I was down to 10%. Even in the same room, the BT system gives out faster speed than the Virgin router

IvanDobskey · 4 Jul 2020 at 06:02

Bought the deco p9 and set it up last night. Getting speeds between 150 and 200mbps. Pretty happy with that.

kitfit1 · 4 Jul 2020 at 08:05

a1ex2001 said:
the only thing puting me off the orbi is the price! We don't hammer our internet connection so it is mainly just browsing, skype calls and some streaming

I have the original Orbi which i bought not long after release. I can see why the price would and does put a lot of people off. What i will say though is that the Orbi system has a specific case use. If you happen to live in an old house with solid brick/block walls everywhere, Orbi will blow most other Mesh systems out of the water.
I have 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 4 downstairs rooms along with front and back gardens. Positioning the router in the downstairs study and the satellite in the upstairs hall, i get full speed coverage over the entire house and front and back gardens. With most modern houses, internal walls are timber and plasterboard construction and don't pose much of a problem for cheaper mesh systems. An older house like mine is a nightmare for wifi because of solid walls internally, for me Orbi was a no brainer regardless of the price because it was the only mesh system that would get full speed full house coverage.

a1ex2001 · 4 Jul 2020 at 10:16

kitfit1 said:
I have the original Orbi which i bought not long after release. I can see why the price would and does put a lot of people off. What i will say though is that the Orbi system has a specific case use. If you happen to live in an old house with solid brick/block walls everywhere, Orbi will blow most other Mesh systems out of the water.
I have 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 4 downstairs rooms along with front and back gardens. Positioning the router in the downstairs study and the satellite in the upstairs hall, i get full speed coverage over the entire house and front and back gardens. With most modern houses, internal walls are timber and plasterboard construction and don't pose much of a problem for cheaper mesh systems. An older house like mine is a nightmare for wifi because of solid walls internally, for me Orbi was a no brainer regardless of the price because it was the only mesh system that would get full speed full house coverage.

Speed isn’t my number one requirement my broadband tops out at about 20mb (dodgy old aluminium wiring from the pole to my house!) I can see the FTTC box less than 100yards away! So any decent mesh system is probably going to saturate that!

thanks for the feedback all, I still haven’t decided but might go with the m5 because it’s a cheap way of trying the tech and will likely do the job.