Review on Experience Seamless WiFi with TP-Link Deco Whole Home Mesh System - 📶 Covering 5,500 Sq.ft with Parental Controls, Alexa compatibility & Gigabit Ports (Deco M4 3-Pack) by Eldrick Carlton

I was arguing between this and Google's WIFI and it all came down to cost. TP-Link is almost $90 cheaper (at the time of my purchase) than Google's WIFI. Diagram: - I have a 2500 square foot house - 3 floors - Verizon FIOS at one end of the house and bad internet at the back. - I set it up so that you need to connect one to your main router (see image, note: once everything is connected you should disable the router's internal WiFi, there is such a thing as too much WiFi) - I then connected one in the Keller and connected it directly to the PS4 (the non-professional PS4 model only supports a 2.4GHz signal, so connecting directly to WAN makes it a 5GHz LAN connection god) - last I have joined him in the master bedroom. - Overall, I made a triangle out of WiFi. Setup: - Overall installation was easy, the main unit connected directly to my router - I downloaded the TP-Link app and it took less than a minute to get it working. Discover.- You need to register a TP-Link account. It created an extra network, so most routers use 192.168.1.1. This creates another one that you can modify. This is important to know because when you use devices with a static address (e.g. a network/wireless printer or even a home desktop, your IP scheme changes) - also and VERY important when you use it leave, create a 2nd VLAN, it doesn't matter for a large number of home devices, but if you work from home and need to connect via VPN, your VPN will stop working. Why are you asking, this network you created is now "Double-NAT". A VPN won't work with this type of setup, so you'll need to create a "flat network" if you're using a VPN and need it to work. who used what. The PS4 is the most important factor. So when a 15GB game is downloaded or updated, for example, we're usually told it can take hours to download (again, the PS4 only supports 2.4GHz unless you've bought a PSpro). Now that it's 5GHz and a direct LAN/cable connection, my test went from 5-6 hours to 12-15 minutes for this large file. Bad: The biggest problem for me with this was, well, ALEXA! This has NOTHING to do with the performance of TP-Link. We have 6 Alexa speakers and some smart plugs. There's no way to en masse change the WiFi network or password in the Alexa app, you basically have to bypass each device and set it up almost as if they were new. The speakers are pretty easy to set up, but the plugs, the app treated them like new plugs, weren't there and I had to repeat all our Alexa routines. Overall: I highly recommend this mesh WiFi for the home, but if you have smart home devices (Alexa, security cameras, Nest thermostat) then, like me, be prepared to repeat all of those devices as if they were straight came out of the packaging.