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3-Pack TP-Link Deco M5 AC1300 Whole Home WiFi System
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TP-Link Deco Whole Home Mesh WiFi System– Up to 5,500 Sq.ft. Coverage, WiFi Router/Extender Replacement, Gigabit Ports,Seamless Roaming, Parental Controls, Works with Alexa(Deco S4 3-Pack) https://smile.amazon.co
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I have setup the urlhasbeenblocked at s few locations and people overall are generally happy with them, people who just want wifi to work but dont care about getting blazing speeds. Even though at a couple locations they do have a few computer gamers and I have their PC;s hardwired into the cubes for best latency, and they are happy with it too. So if you want my cheapest recommendation urlhasbeenblocked Nova MW6 they are even better than the original google wifi if you want something to compare performance to thats name brand.
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Also almost all dual bands can be connected to each other with a hardwire cable, that backhaul connection pretty much puts even these M5's a lot closer to M9 speeds even though they are tri band.
What kind of ISP speeds do you have and if you want I can give you some suggestions, I already have an idea just making sure they fit your ISP speeds?
I don't even game any more. Really just need reliable WiFi that doesn't drop as I move around and a decent speed
Fun fact: the Deco app will always say your firmware is up to date no matter how many versions behind you are; the ability to update firmware thru the app is broken and has been for over a year.
I also just bought this 3pk of m5's on Friday and now its $20.00 cheaper. Dang it.
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Also, these like to pick 2.4GHz channels like 9 which is typically not recommended. There are feature requests to allow manual setting of channels.
I don't even game any more. Really just need reliable WiFi that doesn't drop as I move around and a decent speed
If you dont plan on hard wiring them, I would go with the 3pack of m9+ instead next time they are on sale for $200, I believe the 3 pack with the triband might be enough to cover your whole home/garage if you can center the main one in your home with your modem. If the 3 pack is not enough to cover the whole home/garage can always add in a 4th unit M4 or M9 to fill in whatever gap is missing.
As for your slower speeds, if you testing the speeds from your a device connected to your Linksys router using the POE thats probably why, the POE adapters are great for getting a single somewhere, but they are no where near advertised speeds. Even the best ones out there you need a near perfect environment to get over speeds of 100 Mbps.
I have a hard time recommending a 3 pack just to add on a 4th cause cost brings the total system almost to sale prices on the X60 in some situations. If you have the money and if costco has the X60 3pack for $250 still, that would be the next step up for you. Since this is a wifi 6 system it would be a bit more future proof, but its still missing the triband so only recommend this one if you can hardwire the units with ethernet.
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Also, these like to pick 2.4GHz channels like 9 which is typically not recommended. There are feature requests to allow manual setting of channels.
As for these units perfering 2.4ghz it all depends how far away the device is from the node. Since 5ghz is way shorter range, if its usually not in the same room, it will always try to move devices outside of immediate vicinity to 2.4ghz cause it has way longer range.
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