Accepted Manual Signal Source Selection on Deco
Background:
Some users might notice that all satellite Deco units are connected to the main Deco, instead of the nearest satellite Deco.
Typical Layout:
Why does the satellite Deco still keep selecting the main Deco as a signal source instead of the nearest satellite Deco?
Deco will choose the best signal source by itself. The selection does not depend absolutely on the signal strength, but also on the connection rate. Sometimes satellite Deco units may get slower speed due to half-duplex mode and interferences caused by connected devices like phones, or other devices. To ensure the satellite Deco gets reliable speed, the main Deco stays selected by Satellite Deco after comparative analysis.
Some users tested that after moving one of the satellites far enough and not being able to reach the main Deco, they finally get the desired connection map:
However, the speed of the satellite becomes slower than what it could get when connecting to the main Deco directly. Due to the working pattern and protocol/regulation of Wi-Fi technology, the more wireless hops, the slower the speed would be. This rule applies to any kind of mesh or extender system. So it is not always good to connect to the nearest Deco unit.
Solutions
Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
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@Seba83 Agreed on your points. After a lot of messing about with rebooting the devices I managed to get them to connect how I would prefer (in a daisy chain) and my speed has gone from 20mbs to 100mbs. I know this will be short lived as for some reason Deco decides that the weakest signal from the main Deco is better. Which I know for a fact it isn't.
Even if daisy changing cuts the throughput for each time it hops / links across a node, I'd rather have it like that as the throughput of the device is enough for my incoming connection speed. My biggest gripe, and the the reason I am looking for new units from a different brand, is that I have not been given the option to choose.
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@jl10101 agreed.
I recently gave up and just set the Deco that's in the center as main, and now everything falls in line automatically. Most people can't do this though, so hopefully the feature will be implemented soon.
Even in my situation the speed dropped a bit (due to this, I had to move my LTE modem to a sub-optimal spot), but since I'm getting a 250M fiber a week from now that will connect to the center Deco, I guess I'll survive.
Also people, you gotta realize that the M4 is the cheapest Deco of the whole line, so from a priority standpoint you'd imagine it to get new features last of the bunch... Unfortunately. But hopefully the firmware is similar enough to the others that it'll come out someday soon anyway.
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I did that too, but unfortunately now my devices, just only choose de main deco, and they shouldn't, since i have shellys choosing the main deco, when the 3º deco is at 3 meters. I really just want the option, where we could choose the deco to connect. I'm a developer and for my experience, this can't be so hard to implement.
Main deco: 20 devices.
2º deco: 3 devices
3º deco: 3 devices
4º deco: 0 devices
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@FlabbyPanda I have 3 X20 v2s and an X20 v1. I have a v2 as the master and the other v2s connected via Ethernet. The v1 is farther from the master than any of the v2s and it automatically daisy chained with one of the satellite v2s not the master
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the option to choose the signal source is in the ASUS ZenWiFi AX Hybrid XP4 .... TP-Link, please do this with the Deco P9 software, thank you
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@jl10101 I have been waiting and watching the threads on this subject since November 2020, and I'm truly dumbfounded by the lack of activity from the side of Tp-link. I don't understand why they don't seem to care at all by customer satisfaction. My guess is that they will not fix it. My next mesh is NOT tp-link
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@DezeEnGene feeling exactly the same way
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@TP-Link I gave up waiting for any support/improvements help. I even ported OpenWRT an open source router firmware to these devices to get control of the network. In the end I've given up. There are just far too many delays in support/firmware improvements from TP Link. I've sold them on and bought 2 Belkin RT3200 11AX routers that are so much better, and run Open WRT perfectly well.
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If the implementation of manual signal source selection is so complicated, then maybe the algorithm for setting up connections between mesh APs should be improved, there are many user reports that the connections between APs are often nonoptimal, possibly the meshing algorithm between APs does not contain all parameters
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