TP-Link Deco vs Amazon Eero vs Asus ZenWiFi AX

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Hello

I currently have some TP-Link Deco units that provide my house and garden with WiFi wherever I am.  They're okay, but I have a bit of an itch to upgrade them when I move house early next year.

My current Decos aren't WiFi 6.
I currently have 1Gb internet, which will be the same in the new house.

I was looking at:

TP-Link XE75
Not sure this is enough of an upgrade but WiFi 6e will sort me out for a long time I think?
Apparently TP-Link have the best parental controls as it's all free and in the app.

Amazon Eero
I may have a spare one of these, so buying another may be worth it?
Not sure whether I want to climb further into bed with Amazon but we do use our Alexa speakers.  I also had amazing speeds when I used this with my previous ISP.
Long story: I very recently left my old ISP but we didn't part on good terms.  I complained but they said I didn't have an account with them any more as I'd left for my new ISP and thus they didn't feel they needed to do anything.  All the paperwork says they'll request the router back when I leave, which is standard practice.  The company was bought by another a few months back too, just to make things more fun.
I have received an envelope in the post but nothing came with it, so I don't want to send a random company a £250 router.
The company has not called me or emailled me for the Eero router back, so I still have it.  It's been nearly 2 months since I left them.
Whether I can re-purpose this Eero, I don't know.

Asus ZenWiFi AX
Seems to be quite highly regarded, WiFi 6 here too.

 

All options will probably be connected with a cable (although currently, only 2 of the 3 Deco towers I have are).
I'll also be connecting at least two switches around as I like to wire as many things as possible so my phones and laptops can have as clearer airwaves as possible.

Anyone have any advice on this?

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

Why not just use Ubiquiti for it's mesh setup? Unless that's not feasible?

@BudManmight be able to help.

edit: what is your new house size?

[dwd999]

IDK I was using wifi 6E for a while with a TP-Link AXE 75 router because I live in a congested neighborhood with dozens of wifi 5 signals and had the entire 6Ghz band to myself. But the file transfer speeds wan to router were so bad that I went back to wifi 5 and now I'm getting better wan to router file transfers. So I'm not sure that wifi 6 (which is still 5.8Ghz), 6E or even 7 would improve your speeds. During the winter I'll be moving my computer closer to my router so hopefully I'll get better file transfer speed. But if I could I'd connect everything possible with ethernet.

[Ixion]

My experience with the XT8s was pretty good, I had three in a mesh. Early on you got alternating good/bad firmware which would reduce the mesh stability (I used Wireless mesh) but the later firmwares are all decent. performance wise I used to be able to get my full internet speed (1gbps at the time) anywhere in a 4 bed house with 3 nodes and good coverage in the back garden as well.

The auto frequency selection wasn't as capable as it would have you believe (not surprising when the network is distributed and different parts can see different neighbours' WiFi) I found using a WiFi analyser app on my phone and setting the master frequencies, particularly for the wireless backhaul led to much better stability and bandwidth. Occasionally they need rebooting and this can be scheduled for something like fortnightly at 3am using the app to avoid any inconvenience, I'm not sure why this is the case but it was for my previous Asus router and the routers I bought to replace the XT8s!

[+BudMan MVC]

I have no experience with any of those consumer wifi routers.  Personally I don't move any files over wifi of any size, only stream to some sticks and AC is more than enough for that so have little drive to move to AX or higher.

Unless you move a lot of files to and from your laptop over wifi, don't really see the need to update for the sake of updating if your current hardware is working.

Say if one of my current APs died and I needed something.. I would prob look at testing out say omada or sticking with unifi and get something that can do wifi7 even though I clearly have no use for it currently. Or go with just wifi6 depending on the price difference.. 

I mean mine are starting to get a bit long in the tooth, I just looked and put my unifi APs up in early 2016..  My biggest issue with any wifi like you suggested is lack of vlan support.. I run multiple vlans on my wifi, so there is no way I would go with any system that can not do vlans.