TP-Link Deco X60 Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System, AX5400 Dual_Band Wireless WiFi 6 Speeds Up to 5400Mbps, Work with Amazon Echo/Alexa, OFDMA and…

Deco X60
Here are my thoughts after 6 months of using this mesh system:

Pros:
1. Minimal and clean design looks really good
2. Setting up is a breeze with the deco app
3. Reliable wifi for stationary devices ( tv, desktop pc, ip cams)

Cons:
1. Mesh performance is not satisfactory. When I move from one room to another, many a times I have to turn my wifi off and then on again so that it latches to the nearest node. At first I thought this is a mobile phone issue, but checked it with 5 diff phones, the problem persists. Defeats the sole purpose of buying such an expensive system

2. If you connect the nodes wirelessly , the speed drop is significant. For optimum speed, you need to connect via an ethernet cable, which again is a hassle.

3. Only 2 lan/ wan ports per unit. Now if you have a large no. of wifi devices at your place like me, you would want to connect some of them through wire for better and reliable connection (also it helps minimize some bit of interference). You need to buy a switch to extend the ports then, which creates a mess of wires around the place. Not like it at all

4. The units have a circular ring like opening on top which I didn’t notice earlier. I understand it is for heat dissipation but it also means that dust (and dog hair if you have one at your place) gets into it which could be an issue.

5. At approx 35K for a pack of 4, it’s really expensive and not good value for money.

I have been a long time user of Airport Express in my house. For the last 2-3 years I had been facing issues in the performance of the Airport Express in terms of speed and connectivity. In search for a new router I came across this product and today after installing it I am very happy with the performance of the router. It has good deep coverage and works well with multiple devices at the go.

I tried reading a lot about this router before purchasing it. To my surprise there weren’t enough proper reviews about it. There were some reviews but nothing very specific about features, compatibility and speed. I bought the router 3 days back and found it pretty good.

Overall: I would surely suggest this mesh router Deco X60 to anyone. The performance is pretty good and upto the mark in comparison with my previous router ASUS RT AC87U. The only reason I wanted to move was because of lack of coverage of my ASUS router and wifi 6 as some of my devices support Wifi 6.

Installation: Installation is pretty smooth and hassle free. I think it took me around less than minutes to set this up and make it up and running. One of my major concerns before buying was the PPOE support for ACT broadband. But it easily supports PPOE, when you insert direct LAN cable, start and connect using a mobile app, it automatically recognizes PPOE and takes you to the ACT signing page. Later once more it asks you to enter your ACT ID and password and then it’s done. I would suggest installing the primary router and then adding a satellite after that. It will recognize the satellite within one minute of addition. When you install for the first time, it will ask you for updating the firmware, which you should definitely do.

Performance: I have a speed of 250Mbps from ACT and I am getting around 238 Mbps over Wifi when I am in the same room of the primary server and around 248 Mbps when I am connected via LAN cable. This is pretty good performance in terms of routers. Also, I am seeing download speed around 245 Mbps which is quite good.

My 4K TV is connected with a satellite in another room and I am easily able to see 4K movies and stream full quality movies over Plex without compromising any quality. This is pretty awesome. My previous router range was never allowing me to do that. Haven’t seen any signal drops and any issues.

Browsing is pretty good. Sometimes DNS settings of the ISP aren’t very good. Try changing to google or cloudflare, you will surely see increase in performance and increase in browsing speed as well. At any given time there are around 14 devices which are online in my house and each one of them demands speed and performance. I have not seen any issues till now.

Features:

This mesh router can work as access point mode or router mode. I think this should work with pretty much any ISP directly. Not sure about Airtel, though. Parental controls, Antivirus and Malicious content filters are there but I haven’t got a chance to do any real test on them.

QOS mode is there which you can customise. But I think it could have been a little better, there are only three options for setting up priority, i.e low, normal and high. I would have preferred more control on this. Otherwise, you can choose predefined modes like streaming, browsing, gaming, etc.

You can set up a guest network, Do speed tests from the app itself, blacklist any specific device from accessing the internet, get monthly reports about usage, set WPS and share wifi and create guest networks.

Advanced settings allow you to tweak something like changing subnet, DHCP server, allocate IP addresses, static IP address allocation, port forwarding and some other features.

One of the good things is that you can easily see how many devices are connected with which router either master or satellite. You will also get notifications if someone joins the network.Since I dont’ have provision but it this router will give even more performance if you connect both master and POD with LAN cable making a backhaul quite stable. I think you should get even better performance.

Drawbacks:

Since I have been using multiple ASUS advance routers before, people who are using ASUS RT AC87U will know that.This mesh router will give all you need to require to quickly use fast and reliable internet. Though if you are an enthusiast, you cannot do much in it. Down the link I would make my ASUS router primary and connect this as an access point so that I can use functionality of both together making them more powerful.

Overall its a good router and I would surely suggest Deco X60 anyone to buy it if they are looking for better coverage, speed and stability.

I was using an array of JioFibre Wifi Router, one TPLink router and two TP Link range extenders, one Apple AirPort Extreme and one Apple Airport Express (Both hardwired) to create a wifi network for a 5BR home and there were still many deadzones. Ive now switched to using a pair of TP Link X60s and removed everything else and there is perfect coverage across the home with all devices (approx 20) getting a full signal and bandwidth. Highly recommended.