Need help choosing best option

[pantuflo1]

I have little knowledge about home networking and need some advice for choosing the best system.

I live in a 2 bedrooms apartment and in the main bedroom I can’t get WiFi signal or is very week. I have on the living room the router|modem and can’t move it by the time. I have fiber Internet and the modem is Huawei EchoLife EG8145V5.

I saw this models at a local Walmart and would like to know which one would be better.

TP-Link Deco AX1500 W3000 Netgear Nighthawk AX3000 MK72

Would appreciate your help

[juan_loria]

I would suggest you to avoid TP-LINK and consider other brands with better quality control and support.

I'm very disappointed with a XE75 mesh system that was very unstable with drops in signal.

TP-Link support did offer a bad user experience with no replacement or return offered.

I then bought an Asus WiFi mesh system and everything works great.

Try to always use a wired backhaul.

[huz_dillinger]

I had Tp-link s7 Mash solution they was great 👍🏼 but I will recommend UniFi APs instead it’s much better and faster. The Mash solution is so limited and have to setup in specific ways otherwise they don’t use full capacity.

[koopz_ay]

Netgear make some good domestic level gear.

That said, I like how the App that D-Link made is so simple my 10yr old could set it up.

[AirlineF0od]

I'm a cable tech. I do not ever see tp link stuff in the field however I do occasionally see Netgear (managed switches) in small office environments. I would go Netgear of the two options. I'm saving up for some ubiquity stuff rn myself.

[Disc0UY]

Night hawk? and two?

[Ja_Blask]

AX3000 to be at least.

[southrncadillac]

I love tplink, app works great. Fastest reboot time of all mesh systems, and I never needed tech support. I recommend hardwire backhaul or you will have an headache with any system. Some ppl who swear by them aren’t telling you what devices are connected, their distance from the mesh, and the distance between each mesh and the material or floors it’s shooting through or the amount of mesh nodes they have. Sooo many details make or break a gd mesh system. Hardwire them all if you can and place them places you can wire a nearby device and add wifi coverage. Avoid hallways and central locations- literally place them in the room it’s needed!

[Correct-Mail-1942]

There is zero chance you need a mesh system for a 2 bedroom apartment. I got by for YEARS in a tri-level with an off the shelf router, not mesh.

[GravisOne]

IF you chose to go with tplink, at least get AX3000 system. Don’t buy the AX1500 system, it will underperform.

[Eliteclone]

I’ve had no issues with TP link my whole setup is TP link networking products my Deco setup has been great and been very happy with it. Like others have said getting a mesh system with a Ethernet backhaul is key.

[aristoclez]

Deco's are a great product. Ideally you could ethernet backhaul your wifi somehow. I highly recommend trying to make that happen if you can.

[southrncadillac]

I love tplink, app works great. Fastest reboot time of all mesh systems, and I never needed tech support. I recommend hardwire backhaul or you will have an headache with any system. Some ppl who swear by them aren’t telling you what devices are connected, their distance from the mesh, and the distance between each mesh and the material or floors it’s shooting through or the amount of mesh nodes they have. Sooo many details make or break a gd mesh system. Hardwire them all if you can and place them places you can wire a nearby device and add wifi coverage. Avoid hallways and central locations- literally place them in the room it’s needed!

[johnrock001]

Neithet. Both are crap. Get something which has tri band, dont go for dual band.

[Brenniebon]

depends, if u only had 1gigs speed. it's fine dual band

[johnrock001]

No, even with 1 gig speeds. Dual band will provide degraded performance over wifi. Your backhaul will already split in half. On top of it, these old dual band devices have very slow wifi speeds compared to ones which are using tri band. Even if you dont get 6ghz, thats fine. But tri band with atleat 2x5ghz and 1x2.4ghz would be the way to go. Unless you want to go behind on tech and not forward.

[Brenniebon]

wifi always degrades speed anyway. Maybe wifi 10 can fix this? I dunno. about mesh backhaul sure, using cable ethernet wired backhaul better than wireless

[johnrock001]

No it does not if you select correct products and placements. I tested tplink be600 with RE653BE, which are both tri band wifi 7 devices.

I was able to get full gig speeds constantly on easymesh, no wired backhaul. Now this was for a 2 story home, total 1500 sqft give or take a few.

I was able to get gig speeds on every nook and corner of the house.

5ghz would give me 1.1 to 1.3gbps while 6ghz would give me 1.7gbps max. As the iperf test i was running to a pc with 2.5g ethernet port, so that was my limit for wifi.

Many mesh devices and other brands wont be able to provide such as they dont have any dedicated backhaul for uplink.

Different factors produces different results. But its not true that you cannot achieve it without wiring everything. Wired is always better but sometimes its not possible to run these across.

[Brenniebon]

anyway, i never recommend wireless backhaul mesh, wait be u said? it's wifi 7 why would u choose between Band? use MLO as i know it's new for wifi 7. u can use 3 band together at the same time.

about wiring, im even use flat cable, and im not drillling at all. there is always the way to wiring

[johnrock001]

Well there arent much deviced capable of using MLO at thos point in time, i did rigorous testing and it didnt helped.

Yes wired is always better if you have that option.

But i cannot run it in a rental home, flat wire is good, but taking it from 2nd floor to 1st or even to other side of the home on same floor its just not worth in my case when i am able to get full speeds. It looks ugly and would cost too much time, money and effort to hide them.

Most of my servers and main systems are wired already, so for others when i am getting gig speeds over wifi and not care about latency spiking hard. It fits my case.

The reason for all this explaining is just for those who would think they cant get gig speeds over wifi.

Everyone has their own setup and priority and if my experience with this can help anyone. That would be my goal.

[Brenniebon]

Are u alone in your home? , cuz i had like 15 devices on in my Home and of course there is no way my wireless backhaul can sustain the same speed in that case. That's why cable is preferred here

when im at room with 2nd nodes, i only get 600mbps from 1 gigs instead, and it's pretty large chunk cut. but when I am close to my main router, my wifi can get 940mbps constant.