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The TP-Link Deco XE75 adds Wi-Fi 6E support for extra performance and bandwidth, and at the time of writing you can get two units for £380, or three for £550.Īnother option is the Google Nest WiFi Pro, which gives you three stations for the relatively knock-down price of £380 – although we’d only recommend that system if you’re focused on integration with the Google Home app and ecosystem, as its performance isn’t especially impressive. Or you might consider the TP-Link Deco X68, which is even cheaper at £321 for two units.įrankly, though, if you’re working with a budget of £400 and upwards, there’s no reason to limit your shopping list to Wi-Fi 6 systems.

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That includes the Linksys Atlas Pro 6, which offers strong Wi-Fi 6 performance across three stations for a much lower £380. That makes it one of the most expensive meshes we’ve ever reviewed, so if you’re considering buying this system then pretty much every alternative is also on the table.

The Orbi RBK763 costs £600 for three stations, or £420 for the twin pack. If left on 24/7 and you pay the national average of 14 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity, the network should cost about $18.40 per year to run, comparable to the Asus Zen WiFi ET8’s $18.60.Netgear Orbi RBK763 review: Price and competition With the Deco XE75 units powered on, each system used a modest 7.5 watts. The audio and video streams came through perfectly.

This all happened while a MacBook Air was moving data from a networked RAID data storage array. It also passed the network saturation test where I have a 4K video playing on my iPad Pro while a Lenovo ThinkPad T470 played HD videos and an HP Dragonfly tuned into an internet radio station. It worked well for a variety of uses from emails to online gaming, video calls and large downloads. Over several weeks of daily use, the Deco XE75 kept its cool, never getting above 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Still, it was nearly double the 547.9Mbps from the Orbi RBKE963.Īfter I set the first satellite up on a floor above the host router and put the Galaxy Book Pro 40-feet down the hall, the Deco XE75 managed to deliver 579.1Mbps, more than three-times the Orbi RBKE963’s 163.4Mbps and five times the 102.7Mbps from the Atlas Max 6E. The Deco XE75 excelled at sending data across a 25-foot room and through a wall, with 990.1Mbps available, just short of the 1.008Gbps that the Linksys Atlas Max 6E recorded. By comparison, the Orbi RBKE963 moved 39.9Mbps, 40 percent more data. It remained online at 90-feet (27 meters) with 23.7Mbps available, just enough for a couple HD video streams the Deco XE75 had a 100-foot range. The Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 and Linksys Atlas Max 6E trailed at 148.6Mbps and 50.6Mbps. Here, it was the big winner with more than three-times the throughput available from the Orbi RBKE963 (93.4Mbps) at the same distance. With 75-feet (22.5 meters) between the host router and the receiving system, the network regained some momentum delivering 318.5Mbps. Still, it’s well ahead of Wi-Fi 6 routers, like the Orbi RBK852 (124.4Mbps) and TP-Link Deco X20 (255.4Mbps). That’s actually better than the Nighthawk RAXE500’s 215.8Mbps but 22 percent off the pace set by the Linksys Atlas Max 6E’s 382.2Mbps.

At 50-feet (15 meters), the router was able to send 299.1Mbps. Like other Wi-Fi 6E devices, the Deco XE75’s throughput fell off quickly at 25 to 30 feet when the 6GHz transmissions petered out. It retains the top spot with a maximum bandwidth of 2.396Gbps.

Still, it’s only half the throughput potential that the Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 can deliver. This shows the potential of 6GHz data transmissions at short range and nudges out the 1.189Gbps from the Linksys Atlas Max 6E and the 1.009Gbps from the Netgear Orbi RBKE963 kit. Using Ixia’s IxChariot networking benchmark to simulate 10 data-hungry users and a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro to measure performance, the Deco XE75 managed to push 1.220Gbps to the receiving system 15-feet (about 4.5 meters) away. The two-piece kit was just short of filling the 3,500-square-foot house, leaving a few Wi-Fi dead zones that likely would have been filled if I had a third node. The TP-Link Deco XE75 did quite well in real world testing in my 100-year-old home. Plus, these ports are rated at gigabit per second none can handle the faster 2.5- or 5Gbps connections and two can’t be paired using port aggregation.

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However, it only has three Ethernet ports, one of which will be used on the host router to connect to one of the best cable modems, leaving only two free for downstream connections.

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