re: cabling in new (or re-) construction Definitely cable when feasible. And redundancy. Things happen, and cables or connectors get damaged. Or shorted out. Or corroded. I have 15-year old CAT5A...

@JohnIvar re: it would make sense to set different channel for each access point Not really. One main point of a mesh is to have seamless transfer of a mobile device as it moves around ... and the...

ragnakore wrote I have a 2 Deco devices and noticed both are using the same CH4. Why not split, say CH4 and CH9? @ragnakore One of the primary intents of a "mesh" is that client devices can...

D2nny wrote ... Router - TP-Link 16p Gigabit unmanaged switch - 3x TP-Link Deco X20 (one on each floor, wired in AP mode). ... (I've tried toggling beamforming and Fast Roaming, but without success,...

@TPTHZ You may want to consider upgrading to a Ubiquity EdgeRouter 4; it has a standard "Wizard" configuration for 1 WAN and 2 LAN's. It's performance is quite a bit better, too.

FYI: Besides the NAT translation speed limitation noted in my previous note, I found another limitation of the TL-R600VPN: The maximum number of IP addresss reservations in the DHCP server is 80!...