Looking to upgrade my home wifi.
I live in a 2 bed apartment so looking for main+one satellite to cover the whole apartment without any dead spots.
I have NBN - HFC (blackbox provided by NBN).
Any recommendation/deals for a good wifi mesh system which has Wifi6/6e ? Looking to use it long term so wifi 6/6e will be kind of future proofing and mesh system will be useful if i move to a bigger place in the future.
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I don't know a whole lot about mesh wifi's but I use the TPlink deco M5 and have had a very positive experience with them. I'd stick with the Deco and get the xe75pro's if I were to upgrade to wifi6e. not sure about pricing and alternatives but I know it'd be easy to set up and would work well
thank you will have a look
2bed apartment. what's the layout?
is it a long rectangle?
is it a nice square?
How many units in the building, and nearby?
check the wifi congestion already existing using one of many apps available. Check how cluttered the channels are.
I would have thought a single mesh router would cover a 2br apartment, unless it's a long one. In which case you may need one near the other end, and a long cable, or powerline or just hope the range makes it to the other barely.
Tri-bands are cute, but that 6Ghz isnt gonna make it through too many concrete walls. Nor will 5Ghz. And 2.4Ghz is slower
What devices do you have now? what do they support? Do any require faster-than-gigabit ethernet?
Tri-bands means that the routers can talk on one band, and leave the others for other devices. If your two mesh nodes are in line of sight, then this would be fantastic.
Some dual-bands have two bands of 5Ghz to achieve similar things.
Firstly, don't get the UK versions on Amazon. they have less transmission power.
I picked the xe75pro because of the 2.5Gbe port so it can plug into my NAS so that other devices in the network can reach faster speeds on it. I'm trying to future proof myself a bit. Just a bit.
Thank you for your recommendation
Floor pan looks like this, https://imgur.com/p2cR0Nb
NBN Box is sitting in the red arrow corner. 6 Units in 1 building.
Thanks. that helps.
i'm guessing the internal walls are solid. So yeah patchy BR2 atm.
So .. to savey ou some money let's consider the NBN plan you plan on having?
a) 100/40
b) 50/20
c) 1000/40
And what local network access speeds and content will you be having?
ie: if you will do at most 100/40 nbn, then, a cheap deco like the M5 as your main deco in that corner to receive the NBN and send it to a bigger one between the dining/bed1/bathroom nook for fast local network access.
So the M5 can handle your 100/40 internet and it's satellite, your big beefy wifi 6e one in the other location can handle the local-area-traffic
in a 2 storey 4br house with bricks outside and cardboard inside, 2x deco x60 give whole house coverage. With wifi speeds upto 350megabit/s downstairs and 100ish upstairs - all through wireless backhaul.
i hope to get faster upstairs with the xe75pro
thank you will have a look
heaps of people selling deco x20s second hand
As others have implied, a 2 bedroom apartment isn't very big, and may not even need anything more than a basic router.
BUT, the nbn box is in a shitty position, and depending on how busy your apartment block is, you may be prone to a big amount of interference.
This is your first router, right? You aren't upgrading from something else?
Does your apartment have any smart wiring (ethernet ports) throughout? Or will you need to rely purely upon wifi (meaning the potential mesh point will rely on a wireless backhaul).
I'm currently using Asus… seems fine. Unfortunately though, a single mesh point seems to give poorer coverage than the standalone Asus router that I was using before. Frustrating since I've traded up in the front of the house, and traded down in the rear.
I have a Telstra gen 2 modem 3 years old. I am planning to switch providers so wanted to BYO modem.
A lot of Wifi's available around the building. No smart wiring.
Bedroom 2 at the back seems to have patchy connection sometimes.
Yeah, I see.
So why I asked if you were upgrading was because your current router might've sufficed, or even indicated whether you needed a mesh at all. But your current router isn't very good, so doesn't help us now.
Do you game?
Keep your Telstra modem and grab some Wifi boosters off FB marketplace :)
I use a tp link AX72 WiFi router and extender. A few years in with no issues.
Personally I wouldn't get 6E since 7 is here. There is scant few devices with 6E, by the time you wait for it to get more common it's likely they will also support Wifi 7.
the difference will be the new 6ghz band.
wifi 6 does not have this, only wifi 6e has the new band
My Tplink deco xe75pro's are coming in a few weeks. To replace my deco x60s