I recently upgraded from a Deco mesh wi-fi 6E system to the Deco wi-fi 7 BE13000 system. This setup is fast with our new 1 gig Gateway fiber. I can download with max speeds of my fiber network. I used to maybe get 500 mbps, but now getting full bandwidth of 1gbps! Now onto the bad news, gaming and network stability have been terrible compared to the old Deco 6E mesh system. The connection has been continually dropping and always in the middle of gaming or streaming. I have been working with TP Link support and was escalated to an engineer who had me instal this new firmware. Ive been on this for a few days and still having instability issues. Time to return to Costco and rebuy to see if I got a lemon or anyone have suggestions. Ive kept my settings stock, except when support had me make changes.

I own two BE65 Deco's. One is connected to the router upstairs, the other is downstairs in the Kitchen. No issues inside, and excellent up to around halfway up my garden. However, the top half of my garden is more secluded, as it's where outdoor seating is, and a handful of Wi-Fi devices, such as smart lights and a security camera. Wi-Fi in the top half of the garden is spotty, and devices often keep disconnecting from the network. If I stand in the right place, and hold my phone out/up, pointing towards where the Wi-Fi is coming from, I can get lucky and get 800Mbps in a speed test.

Anyway, to solve the spotty Wi-Fi and disconnections of outdoor devices, I bought a Deco BE25-Outdoor unit.

Before I ordered it, I decided to unplug my kitchen BE65, and set it up in the place where the outdoor unit would go, just to see how the performance was.

I positioned it just before the halfway point of my garden. I stood adjacent to it on the path and did a speed test on my phone. I managed to get my full speed of 945Mbps down. I then went to the top of the garden; signal was great, and stable, and a speed test gave around 700Mbps.

BE25 outdoor unit arrived, set it all up, and placed it where I tested the BE65 yesterday. I did a speed test whilst stood adjacent to it, just like yesterday. All I got was 200Mbps.

The Deco app says the outdoor unit has medium signal to the bedroom unit.

Moved to the top half of my garden, signal on my phone is just as poor as it is without the BE25 running, and speeds are less than 100Mbps.

How can it make everything worse? A BE65 in the same place had no issues.

When checking devices connected to the outdoor unit, and tapping the signal icon to see the dBz, every device says "3"

You also can't see the dBz value of the deco's connection to the main one.

The other thing; TP-Link should also not be allowed to sell it with Wi-Fi 7 plastered all over it. It's not even Wi-Fi 6E ffs

i have tapo smart bulbs linked to alexa and i moved home and i now cant get them to reconnect does anyone know how i can fix this

As i mentioned above, it keeps flashing blue even if i do resetting it keeps going this way, the app cant identify it

Hi all (sorry for a bit of a long bit in advanced)

I'm looking to upgrade/extend my mesh from my P9's with some X55's.

Last year I switched from a copper line to 5G as I can't get full fibre so I purchased a X50-5g which is great, however I wasn't aware at the time that by placing this as my main deco I would loose EOP backhaul from my P9s.

Anyway according to AI and a bit of research I can plug a P9 directly into my X50-5g (currently the are connected wirelessly) and this will restore my my EOP backhaul, I'm just wondering if this is accurate? Hoping someone here will be able to confirm this or not, nothing like getting a human answering a question or someone who has done it.

But with that I want to upgrade/supplement my mesh with some new X55's as it would be better to get the main house on Wifi 6 consider the X50-5g has wifi 6 and P9s don't.

With that comes the silly decision I made last year to route cables through ceilings down walls and cover them all with conduit that I can't really remove without some major ballache and some paint and caulk involved.

The P9s use a Fig 8 C7 power cable and these are the cables covered up which I don't really want to remove. So my idea is to buy some power bricks for the X55s and use the existing C7 cables to save myself a lot of hassle in terms of removing conduit, painting and caulking.

I'm hoping someone can tell me the correct power and barrel size for the X55s so I can get the correct power adapter.

My idea is to have one P9 plugged directly into my X50-5g, restoring my EOP backhaul and place my other 2 P9s in each outbuilding so I can get decent wifi in them and they will be too far away from my X55s, ie the places that the wifi just won't cover.

Does this sound workable/doable or have I just decided that it will work great in my own head and in practice won't work at all? Both my outbuildings are connected to my main consumer unit with sub units (ie have there own sub board feeding back to man in unit in the house) so I assume this will work.

Just hoping for a human answer and someone who may have done similar and can confirm I'm not going mad 😂

TIA

Just bought a new house (2 stories & 1,600sqft). Was hoping to setup Ethernet backhaul, but may have ventured out of my depth here. Can anyone share their perspective or advice?

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I recently setup a Be550 pro mesh system: 2 x Be550 pros and 2 re315 to cover 4800 sq ft. The be550 pros cover both upstairs and downstairs well, with the satellite Be550 pro setup asd a wired backhaul. One of the RE315 is needed in the garage, but the other RE315 I’m thinking about just removing all together as it doesn’t seem needed. I seem to recall that more extenders will hurt overall performance…..better to just leave it out of the mesh network?

Hi everyone, I have two TP-Link Deco X50 units and a 1000 Mbps internet connection at home. However, the Decos are capping my speed at 100 Mbps, and I haven't been able to get anything higher no matter what I try.
I've tested the Ethernet cables, and there is no issue there. The setup is also correct. When I connect directly to my main modem's Wi-Fi, I can easily get 700-800 Mbps. The problem is definitely with the Decos, but I just can't figure it out.
Has anyone experienced this or know how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!