TP-Link DECO-P9-3PACK
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Price: £144.99
Brand: TP-Link
Description: DECO-P9 Whole Home Hybrid Mesh Wi Fi System - 3 Pack. TP-Link DECO-P9-3PACK - shop the best deal online on appliances4.me
Category: Computer Components
Merchant: Hughes Direct
Product ID: TPL-DECO-P9-3PACK
Delivery time: 2
Delivery cost: 0.00
MPN: DECO-P9-3PACK
EAN: 6935364088651
Author: CarbonArc
Rating: 5
Review: Have just bought the three pack of the Deco S7 after returning a three pack of the Linksys Velop WHW0303 devices. The differences are quite marked between the two systems. Initial impression - The Velop comes in an "Apple esque" smart box with magnetic closures and a ribbon tag with the name on it. The Deco comes in a normal but presentable cardboard box. Easily recyclable and adequate for the job. They both have (UK) plug mounted power supplies, but the Velops are so wide that they block the use of the adjacent sockets on plugblocks or the on/off switches on normal double sockets. Both use the mandatory mobile app to set the systems up. The Velop app does seem to offer more functionality than the Deco, not sure if it is all useful, but the Deco app is more responsive to commands and more logical. The Velop app seems to take ages to make any changes and at one point indicated that the operation I was performing would take up to 6 minutes! No such problem with the Deco app. I had both systems setup with one node connected to my broadband and the other two 'wirelessly' connected. Once setup the Deco system works just as you would expect it to. Mobile devices seamlessly transitioning from one node to another as they move around. My broadband is 270Mbps and I can get that speed from anywhere in the house now. Which I was unable to get from the Velop system with the nodes located in the same places round the house. Spent several hours trying to get the Velop system to work properly with its default setting and messing with its advance settings. It didn't transition my mobile devices to the strongest signal and the speed suffered. Setting up the Deco system took less than 20 minutes. Wish I had bought the Decos first. I consider myself IT literate as I work in the industry and have no connection with or previous experience with either brand.
Author: S. Douglas
Rating: 4
Review: I have a big old house, which means you get a few dead spots so have used these to eliminate that. They're pretty compact and easy to set up, and tbh the range on just one of them seemed to be a big improvement on my last tp-link router I had, 100% better than your standard virgin router. I have two out of the three set up and link them with a cable for better speeds. (you can link them wirelessly though). They are working well and rarely get any internet issues if any. Software wise: its simple to use and has some control features on it, not as many as my previous router, but you can set up guest networks, name devices and categorise them. You can add parental controls and group devices allowing times and access rights. I do like that you can get notifications when a device joins your network. My only gripe with them really is the amount of ports (2) in the back of them. If you link the two together for faster performance, then both ports are used in the first deco and only one is spare in the second. Once my hive system is plugged in you can't port in anything else. Probably not a big issue and you can get a switch box, but just another would have been useful. For the price I got them for they've been a good solution, standards are changing all the time and these will no doubt be out of date now. I didn't need 3 of these so if you're house isn't big you can just buy the single for a big improvement on your wifi coverage.
