TP-Link - Deco BE63 BE10000 Whole Home Mesh WiFi 7 System

Just upgraded from an older Orbi system to the TPLink BE10000 today and it was worth it. Speeds overall are better and had it up and running in 30 minutes with the satellites.

Best I have tested is the BE63. Reached 1G off the wireless node that was a separate floor away and had full coverage throughout my 2k sq ft house as well as outside

Tplink mesh WiFi 7 10000, I am Able to get 1gbps across the house.

I've got the be10000 tplink mesh unit. I get full bandwidth gigabit on my windows 6e pc over wifi about 50 ft and a separate floor away. I'd never go back to a traditional router.

Loving my 2 be63 tplink decos in our 2900 sqft 2 story. Usually get around 600-700 mbs over wifi. I go from fiber ont to the main deco unit, then to a poe switch for exterior cameras. Just doing a wireless backhaul and it works great.

ISO recommendations for a new mesh wifi system. This is an unexpected purchase after a year of other unexpected purchases, so I'm looking for something that is affordable. We are currently using a 5-year-old Orbi 750. We have nearly 100 devices connected at any given moment. Multiple people streaming & gaming simultaneously. A home office on the first floor, and another home office in the basement. The Orbi worked fine until the past month. Now we're seeing slowdowns and dropped service. It doesn't allow me to see which devices are using the most bandwidth. Our house is roughly 3,500 square feet. We need service on the main floor, upstairs, and in the basement. I might be able to run a wire from the main router on the first floor to the basement, but am unable to do that to our second floor. I would prefer a router that allows me to prioritize network traffic for certain devices. I was looking at TP-Link. Specifically, trying to choose between: TP-Link Deco BE63 & TP-Link Deco BE68 Am I looking in the right direction? Recommendations? Thank you for your help.

Thank you for your very thoughtful, detailed response. I went with the BE63. You were right. I don’t have to prioritize network traffic. I think our Orbi had gotten too old to manage all of our devices efficiently. Thank you again! 😊

buy your own if you actually want to see the true speed on wifi. the router speed decays with distance. even the newer spectrum wifi 7 degrades at distance and the 7's have firmware bugs lately that make them disable the upnp. saying this as a field tech thats struggled a lot with the newer 7s after a recent firmware upgraded. all of the newer spectrum routers are heavily firmware locked and you cant manually change the wifi channels. you have to get your own to make sure you can change the wifi channel settings but be warned many of the popular ones like eero and orbi are locked as well. You have to get something like a  [TP-Link Deco BE63](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/out/link/59801/197963/4/193681/?merchant=Amazon) it allows you to manually change channels and also has multiple ethernet ports on each pod where you can hardline devices directly to the pods in different rooms if you want. most mesh pods only have one outport. I know Asus and Ubiquiti also make mesh routers that let you manually select your own wifi channels. dont have to get wifi 7 the cheaper 6 version is fine. just be warned these are not cheap but prime day is coming up soon and it might get a good sale price. I know it sucks to buy your own but if you actually actually what it to work at max speed at distance this is the way. Spectrum doesnt garauntee wifi speed only speeds out of the modem hardlined.

i'm using 2 BE10000 (Deco BE63) that i got a little over a month ago. obviously not the same model, but i'd expect the end result to be similar. my experience: network wise, it's been great. fast, stable, and a huge upgrade over my old 802.11n netgear router (which was running dd-wrt). nothing but good things to say about it on the technical merit. UI wise? the thing sucks. there's just so many basic things you can't do. for starters, all the administration has to be done from a mobile app. the web based "admin" page just has some basic diagnostics and no ability to configure anything. my biggest grip is that when setting DHCP reservations, you **can't** give the devices a name. it forces whatever the device reports as a name to be the name the reservation uses. this means my firestick is just "android", all my mysa thermostats have the same name (as do my august doorbell bridges). from time to time i see my august bridges disconnect/reconnect from the wifi, but i think that's those units more than the router (this used to happen randomly with my older router too)

I have BE63. My home is 3k sq feet. Main router is center of home first floor hard wired. One upstairs connected through mesh and one in garage. I don’t have nearly as many devices connected as you but I can honestly say I always hitting about 800-990 speeds throughout the home and outside. My service is for one gig. You might want to go one step up considering your home is a bit larger and all the devices you have, but the deco has been great for over a year and I have no complaints.

I have the be63 system! I have 3 “nodes” with 1 acting as my main router. I still get firmware updates with new features/bug fixes. The mesh works perfectly fine even with older 2.4ghz only devices like switches and stuff. Range is also very good. I have 1,250mbps internet service and I get around 800-1000 when connected to the 5ghz band (since 2.4 is almost always slower) but if I connect to the MLO network (WiFi 7) I get nearly max speeds my isp offers. The system also picks the best node to connect to and best band. It does a decent job at that. My only “compliant” atm is that they take a bit to introduce features that are requested. Like it took them a HOT ass minute to implement manual WiFi channel selections. If you got questions if it has specific features lmk :)

Since it seems you already have experience with the deco system (xe75’s). Just upgrade to the BE63 system. That’s what I did. Has 4x2.5gb ports in each node. I just set my ISP’s router/modem combo to bridge mode and instead use the BE63 system as my mesh and router.

I did the same thing - I wanted maximum HomeKit uptime and figured hey they sell them, it's probably what they would recommend. I just ordered the TP-LINK Deco BE63 mesh. It has a lot of features that should make the wireless backhaul better plus it has scheduling and other things that the AmpliFi doesn't have. Biggest problem with the AmpliFi is that I have probably around 75 or more devices on the network, and there's a lot of reliability issues. Restarting devices about once a week or more. I'm trying to stay away from going full IT Administrator on my home network (I'm getting too old for that shit). Here's hoping I made a good choice (will know in a few days).

The Deco system, so far, has made a marked difference in speed and responsiveness with all my smart devices. And the stability of them staying online is far improved. 10/10 worth doing in my opinion. My starling home hub still needs to be restarted occasionally but the Deco system has a reboot schedule you can adjust which is something I haven’t seen in other mesh systems that I’ve used (was on my wishlist for awhile).