Wireless Mesh Systems

Have the Deco units, anyway to test the speed of an individual node?
Need to move my server and can't run cable. Server also houses Plex so need decent speeds to the rest of the house.
 
Pho3nix said:
Have the Deco units, anyway to test the speed of an individual node?
Need to move my server and can't run cable. Server also houses Plex so need decent speeds to the rest of the house.
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Maybe on the high-end models. Otherwise just stand next to it, toggle WiFi on your phone off and on again, and run a Speedtest or other WiFi-testing app. You can check Deco app to ensure your phone is connected to the node in question.
 
capd said:
Maybe on the high-end models. Otherwise just stand next to it, toggle WiFi on your phone off and on again, and run a Speedtest or other WiFi-testing app. You can check Deco app to ensure your phone is connected to the node in question.
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Eish :| I'm cheap which seems to be to my detriment. Will try this later today.
 
Pho3nix said:
Have the Deco units, anyway to test the speed of an individual node?
Need to move my server and can't run cable. Server also houses Plex so need decent speeds to the rest of the house.
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My understanding after watching a Youtube video is that for non lan cable connected devices, the more mesh like the wifi connections between the units are the better the speed. The more serial/linear the connections are, the worse the speeds become as each unit down the line adds "overhead" that slows the overall speed down.
 
Pho3nix said:
Eish :| I'm cheap which seems to be to my detriment. Will try this later today.
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High-end models are basically never needed. Entry-level and mid-range WiFi 5 are perfect. I've even done installs using M4/S4 as the router for Gigabit) and E4's as the nodes (no Gigabit but same WiFi performance) as M4.
 
rh1 said:
My understanding after watching a Youtube video is that for non lan cable connected devices, the more mesh like the wifi connections between the units are the better the speed. The more serial/linear the connections are, the worse the speeds become as each unit down the line adds "overhead" that slows the overall speed down.
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The more wifi hops the worst the throughput. My house had two wifi hops across three nodes to get to the lounge and when I ran a cable to the the 2nd node the speed and stability was greatly improved. Running a cable to the 3rd node had no improvement in throuput. I ran a number of tests via iPerf and couldn't get a significant difference YMMV
 
capd said:
High-end models are basically never needed. Entry-level and mid-range WiFi 5 are perfect. I've even done installs using M4/S4 as the router for Gigabit) and E4's as the nodes (no Gigabit but same WiFi performance) as M4.
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How are they in apartment blocks? Would one not want Deco's with Wi-Fi 6, assuming they are less prone to interference from adjacent units with Wi-Fi 5 only?
 
ok I just moved into my new house and I need a bit of help deciding on what set up to get.

Fiber is a 1000mb down.
old place was very small so we only have a single router that handles the wifi.
Fiber box is in a very award spot in the lounge.
Lounge, dining room and kitchen has great coverage.
walls are thick, so bedroom that is about 10m away from router has no coverage, walls are thick.
main bedroom that is 5m away in a straight line also has poor signal because of thick walls.
office is in the opposite direction to the bedrooms and has decent coverage, but there will need to be 1 lan port for a PC there.

I was thiking about the DECO S7 3 pack.
replace router with one.
one in the office area.
one in the bedroom area.

do I need to run CAt5 between the units or do they pick each other up?
can I run a lan cable from the office unit to the PC there? lan connection is work security requirement for some ungodly reason so a wifi 6 dongle in the PC is not an option

Advice is appetited.
 
Baxteen said:
ok I just moved into my new house and I need a bit of help deciding on what set up to get.

Fiber is a 1000mb down.
old place was very small so we only have a single router that handles the wifi.
Fiber box is in a very award spot in the lounge.
Lounge, dining room and kitchen has great coverage.
walls are thick, so bedroom that is about 10m away from router has no coverage, walls are thick.
main bedroom that is 5m away in a straight line also has poor signal because of thick walls.
office is in the opposite direction to the bedrooms and has decent coverage, but there will need to be 1 lan port for a PC there.

I was thiking about the DECO S7 3 pack.
replace router with one.
one in the office area.
one in the bedroom area.

do I need to run CAt5 between the units or do they pick each other up?
can I run a lan cable from the office unit to the PC there? lan connection is work security requirement for some ungodly reason so a wifi 6 dongle in the PC is not an option

Advice is appetited.
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I have a similar situation and a Deco 3 pack fixed my issues.

Just make sure the stations are placed where they have decent signal from the neighboring node. Later I ran a CAT 6 (don't bother with CAT5) on the 1st hop to free up WiFi spectrum and throughput as I also had double structural walls blocking off the 1st node. Lastly I connected my desktop with CAT 6 to a node after I found I has an old 2,4GHz WiFi card in the desktop
 
thanks for the feedback.

by looking at the area I have to cover, I know I have to use a 3pack.

is the TP link the correct option or should I look at maybe the cuddy or Xiomi?
I dont see a point in spending for the ubiquity. simply not enough devices.
honestly there wont even be any devices on the 2.5ghz network.
 
I am completely unsure what to go with at the moment.

I am torn between giving the Cudy brand a try, but there are many complaints about them randomly disconnecting and causing trouble. but the price is leading me that way. and the VPN features lead me that way as well.

the other option is to go with a Mercusys set up, seems like they have about the same features, fewer bad revies and the price difference is not massive.

while I have no brand loyalty to anything I am not finding anything that is drawing me to the TP link solutions. they are all so much more expensive than the other 2 options.

Kind of want to place the order tonight so I can set it all up over the weekend.
 
The Mercusys systems i have seen and worked with is terrible they only want to connect wirelessly to the main node. Same goes for the Xiaomi. Cudy does connect to each other and not to the main node only.

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the way my set up would be the nodes will connect to the main hub not to each other.

Main in the middle of the house. one node in the bedroom area and one node in the office area, opposite ends of the house.

after a lot of reading on many forums, I ended up going for the Mercusys option.

I could not justify the extra R635 for the TP link, there is nothing other than brand name that I could see that was different between the two.

I know this sounds weird, but I want a solution that in 2 or 3 years is going to be covered in dust. not because we don't clean, but because it is something that is sitting out of the way and just works, I don't wat to touch it to reboot or anything like that.

I am going to get a UPS for the other 2 nodes, as the main node will be running off the UPS that I already have for my Fiber box and router.
 
Baxteen said:
I am completely unsure what to go with at the moment.

I am torn between giving the Cudy brand a try, but there are many complaints about them randomly disconnecting and causing trouble. but the price is leading me that way. and the VPN features lead me that way as well.

the other option is to go with a Mercusys set up, seems like they have about the same features, fewer bad revies and the price difference is not massive.

while I have no brand loyalty to anything I am not finding anything that is drawing me to the TP link solutions. they are all so much more expensive than the other 2 options.

Kind of want to place the order tonight so I can set it all up over the weekend.
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Stay away from the Mercusys.

I constantly have to manually connect my tv to the node, (even though its connected via a lan cable).

You cannot access the app/system , if there is no internet.

Randomly disconnects devices, leading you to try and reconnect. I find I have to take the device to another node and then only will it connect.

Avoid.
 
rh1 said:
Stay away from the Mercusys.

I constantly have to manually connect my tv to the node, (even though its connected via a lan cable).

You cannot access the app/system , if there is no internet.

Randomly disconnects devices, leading you to try and reconnect. I find I have to take the device to another node and then only will it connect.

Avoid.
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bit late I placed the order last night already.

but I did not see a single report anyhthing like what you said.

I saw many about cuddy saying the same thing.
and I spent a long time looking at many many reviews on many websites to decide between the Mercusys and the TP link. in the end I could not see the reason to pay the extra R635 for the TP link.
 
about on par with what it was on takealot yesterday.
I opted to go for a wifi 6 based system instead. there are devices that can take advantage of that.
 
I finally bought and setup a 2-set of Deco X55's, so far I am very happy but my apartment is quite small and 1 unit would have sufficed as well. In the future when I'm in a bigger place I might want to do ethernet backhaul. Can this work like I've drawn it in the diagram below whereby the ethernet backhaul is via the router and not directly from one Deco to the other? If this can work then when I move into a double story house in a year's time I possibly don't need a third unit.


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RogueTr00per said:
I finally bought and setup a 2-set of Deco X55's, so far I am very happy but my apartment is quite small and 1 unit would have sufficed as well. In the future when I'm in a bigger place I might want to do ethernet backhaul. Can this work like I've drawn it in the diagram below whereby the ethernet backhaul is via the router and not directly from one Deco to the other? If this can work then when I move into a double story house in a year's time I possibly don't need a third unit.


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Yes. It is called networking.

If you use network cable to connect all of your mesh routers you are defeating the object of mesh. Mesh systems are there if you don't want to or can't run network cable. If you hardwire all of your mesh units you can just as well use a cheap switch and get full speed all of the time.
 
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