Costco Wholesale has for their
Members: TP-Link Archer BE9500 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router w/ 1-Year of TP-Link Homeshield Premium for
$99.97.
Shipping is free.
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rtr2223 for finding this deal.
About this item:
- Wi-Fi 7 Speeds Up To 9.5 Gbps for Smooth Streaming, Lag-free Gaming, and Crystal-clear Video Calls
- Expand your Home Wi-Fi Coverage by up to 2,500 Square Feet for Reliable Connectivity in Every Corner
- Ultra-fast 10G Port Supports Top-tier ISP Speeds for Maximum Performance and Future-ready Connectivity
- Includes 1 Year of TP-Link Homeshield Premium for Advanced Network Security and Protection
- Compatible with all Wi-Fi Enabled Devices and Works with all Internet Service Providers
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It gets pretty hot after running for long time which I assume is what caused connection issue for some. I left it on a wired rack so it can cool from both top and bottom.
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How is it's behavior different than smart connect for all of the order connected devices then?
How is it's behavior different than smart connect for all of the order connected devices then?
Smart Connect is vastly different as it will decide which band to place each of your devices, allowing said device to connect to only 1 band at a time. This is obviously slower, but the bigger problem is that it keeps switching the devices that I would like to stay on at least the 5GHz band but it'll switch my computers to 2.4GHz....just because I'm not using a lot of bandwidth for a few minutes. Then it won't switch back to a faster band quickly enough, which causes more issues with limited connection and constant dropped connections. It was complete chaos whenever I tried to use Smart Connect. It's not like I didn't try to make it work, I spent over two weeks using it with a variety of different settings and it just wasn't reliable enough. The moment I switched everything over to MLO network, everything just worked and worked well.
Also, I could absolutely get great reliability and speed on every network at times. The biggest problem was reliability with dropped connections using every network except MLO. It could be something I was doing wrong but I just couldn't get the other bands to not periodically drop device connections or even take a couple of minutes to completely restart the network signal(not modem).
They been trying to get TP-Link banned for over 5+ years now and since the company did a divestiture and is no longer part of mainland China, the lobbyist dont have a leg to stand on. Just shows their greed on their product markups, routers should not be costing $500+ EVER.
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Edit - thankfully TPLink has emulators to see how the gui is. https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/emulator/
No one found anything. It's all smoke. Tp-link products are just way too competitive. And if you're afraid, use one of them super fancy networking tools that can monitor traffic. Trust me on this, the nerds would have found something suspicious by now.
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The 10gb port connects at 5gb for my 100' cat5 cable run.
On the second router I had to go into the advanced settings, enable easymesh and select satellite mode. The simple satellite mode toggle from the main screen didn't work.
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