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Review on 🏠 TP-Link Smart Hub and Complete Home WiFi Mesh System by Mauricio Woodard

Revainrating 5 out of 5

WOW. just wow. Would give 6 stars if that was an option!

I LOVE THIS PRODUCT! I couldn't believe how easy it is to set it up. I put my Junk CenturyLink DSL modem/router in bridge mode and then turned it off. Connected Deco and turned everything back on. With the Deco app on my iPhone, I was up and running in about 60 seconds. Unbelievable! And I have NEVER had such good WiFi coverage in my house in 15 years. We now have reliable Wi-Fi coverage everywhere. That's great. The parental controls are great. Thanks to the Deco app, I've discovered a few things my kids didn't tell me. For example, despite the fact that we banned Fortnite in our house, my eldest bought a Nintendo Switch to play in his room when we thought he was sleeping. The Deco app brought this to my attention and I discovered his Nintendo Switch secret and over 350 hours of Fortnite play on this device without our knowledge. No wonder he was so tired and impossible all the time! More about parental controls I can block them if I want, create different groups with time filters/access rules and add as many devices as I want to each group. The default content filters seem to be pretty good, although I can't figure out why I'm getting a warning when a Windows PC tries to connect to Windows Update. It should not be filtered. Overall, this is a RELIABLE product that is VERY WELL DESIGNED. You can tell they've made every effort to ensure a GOOD USER EXPERIENCE from the moment you open the box to the moment you go online. I was very impressed. Speed? OOOOOOOOOOOOO much faster. I had one of those ASUS Nighthawks with a huge array of antennas and the coverage wasn't nearly as good. Not to mention the speed. Wow, the speed is way better with the Deco M9 Mesh system. My kit includes two devices that are great for our two story tiny house. I haven't tested this system's smart home hub capabilities yet, but I'm getting some Hue bulbs for Christmas, so we'll update this review when I've had time to try them out on this system. Great job and many thanks to TP-Link, their hardware engineers, software engineers and product owners. WOW. Very impressed, I'd like to see finer control over parental control group notifications so I can get Windows update notifications every time the PC tries to connect (don't I filter by that?), but other than that I have nothing to complain about above!

Pros
  • practical item
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