TP-Link Deco X20 Dual Band Next-Gen Wi-Fi 6 Mesh, AX1800 Whole Home WiFi System, Covers up to 5800 Sq. Ft, Replaces Routers and WiFi Extenders,…

Since I have a 1GBPS internet connection at home, WIFI speeds really matter to me. For me anything below 300mbps on WIFI is waste of my internet plan.

I used to have two D-Link 825’s setup in extreme ends of the house connected via lan cable to give a full 100% WIFI coverage. But that too maxed out around 350-380MBPS.

In November when WIFI 6 routers started pouring in I bought the cheapest one, which was TP-LINK Archer AX10 (AX1500). I replaced my primary D-Link 825 router. I saw great improvement in signal strength and WIFIspeeds.

On 2.4ghz channel I was maxing out around 100mbps (same as D-Link 825), on 5ghz (WIFI 5) channel i was able to max out around 500mbps in a range of 10feet (which is roughly 30% more than D-Link 825’s output) and on 5ghz WIFI 6 channel I was able to max out around 600-650mbps. This was the maximum WIFI speed I’ve had. And the reason I was still using one of the old D-Link router was not many high usage devices were in that particular room.

About a week or two ago (roughly around 10th May 2021) my D-Link 825 started malfunctioning and the range of signal strength and WIFI speed dropped drastically. Even if I was in close proximity of the router (2feet) i was getting just 50% of WIFI signal and barely speeds of 100mbps.

That is when I decided to go for a mesh router. (even though TP-LINK Archer AX10 (AX1500) supports ONEMESH technology, its not as fast as standard mesh router.

I was confused between Deco M9 plus and X20. Even though Deco M9 Plus has a better range and performs better at a distance when compared to Deco X 20, I still went for Deco X20 3 piece configuration as this is a WIFI 6 compatible router.

The setting up of Deco X20 was really easy. It barely took me 5 minutes to setup the two nodes. I did not need to install the third node as of now as the 2 nodes have been more than sufficient in providing a great signal throughout my house.

Because I had a lan cable going in the other room, I connected the node 2 with ethernet which supports ethernet backhaul which is basically WIFI mesh through lan. What this does is creates the 2nd or 3rd node’s wifi much stronger giving off better WIFI speeds.

Now coming to the speeds, In close proximity (2 feet) I was able to achieve 750mbps of upload and download which is extremely good. For me its been a massive jump. As soon as the distance was increased to 10-20 feet, the speed were around 500-600mbps which was still great. And if it was increased to 30 feet or 2/3 walls apart it dropped to 200mbps which is still very good considering the amount of distance.

The application for deco X20 is very user friendly and is very well made.

Only if you are looking for wifi speeds above 500mbps (which means your broadband speed should be more than this), go for Deco X 20.

If you do not have a plan of 500mbps above or do not intend to upgrade either or if you want a much stronger WIFI signal,, do go for Deco M9 Plus. It does not support WIFI 6, but can still give you WIFI speeds of up to 550mbps in close proximity. It also outperforms Deco X20 in terms of range and speed at distance of 30 feet.

Muito fácil instalação e amplifica o sinal de WIFI em toda casa, dependendo do tamanho do espaço será necessário ter 2 ou 3 módulos.

Este produto faz o que ele anucia. Foi fácil de instalar e funcionou sem grandes problemas. A velocidade que obtive e a mesma que obtenho com o wi-fi 5G da provedora. Comprei 4 unidades as três que vem neste pacote a mais uma. Três delas foram conectadas via cabo de internete do tido RJ45. Eu usei cabo Cat-8 mas acredito que não seja necessário para o desempenho. Duas dificuldades que encotrei. Adicionar mais unidades al sistema mesh. Você tem que clicar no sinal + no canto direito para adicionar unidades a posteriori. Outra questão é que duas unidades foram ligadas em serie com a principal e funcionam usando o cabo como era esperado a quarta eu tive que colocar em estrela via cabo. Ocorre que esta quarta se conectou via “wi-fi” não cabo! Não estou certo se da para fazer uma rede toda no formato estrela com estes roteadores pois eles to tem uma saida para conecção de cabo. Se eu achar uma forma de resolver este problema ou se alguém achar avisa aqui. Mesmo com a coneção via “ondas” da quarta unidade a velocidade e bem alta. Recomendo

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.