@Alexandre. 

That's a good idea. Big change though and I am worried about putting to many decices on the main rotuer. The other benefit of the Decos was spereading the load.

Thanks.

@TP-Link 

Are there any plans to allow NAT to be disabed? Or to allow open NAT?

And how about the firewall? Any plans to allow that to be switched off? Cleary possible as in access point mode the firewall is off.

wayne5w wrote

@Alexandre. 

 

That's a good idea. Big change though and I am worried about putting to many decices on the main rotuer. The other benefit of the Decos was spereading the load.

 

Thanks.

@wayne5w 

Any decent DHCP server can handle a thousand or so clients that renew IP address twice a day. In your network these DHCP queries will be coming by Ethernet, and look like requests from wired clients. Your DHCP service inside main router will be very much idle.

The concern with routers is too many wireless clients. Get too many and WiFi performance will be awful. 500 is too many, and it makes sense to spread wireless load over Deco X90s. If two is not enough, you could add more, in Acess Point mode, without messing with your router configuration.

This is what I've done for my household and it works very well. My router manages home network: DNS, DHCP, default gateway, IP address reservations for devices such as backup server, file server, networking printer. Deco covers my house by WiFi signal, in Access Point mode.

If I ever need to replace Deco WiFi mesh by something else, I can do it without impacting my network setup. I hardly have 30-40 wireless devices in my house, I think you might appreciate you don't need to redo home network for 500 devices, just because you want different WiFi mesh.

In my example I started with 2 Deco units, later added one more, later - one more. I now have 4 Deco units. Seamless WiFi coverage upgrade for home network without its reconfiguration.

That, by the way, is applicable to any brand of WiFi mesh, not just Deco, if you want worry free home network.