@Superior3000 

it's EOL on the us site

M9 was announced nearly 5 years ago, so EOL is not unreasonable from a sales point of view. I'd still expect the promised 1.6.x firmware, and security fixes for another year or so.

  @David-TP 

So, where are the 2 weeks timespan for the 1.6.0 release, promised 5 weeks ago?

This becomes ridiculous! Let me say, TP-Link is ridiculous.

I will start a claim via Testaankoop (Consumer protection community), since TP-Link promised a lot on their boxes, but never fulfilled any of them. False advertising.

I own 7 (S.E.V.E.N) of these M9 Plus devices, but having firmware of 2021/10/18, while TP-Link is releasing 1 new device per week.

I would be ashamed to work for TP-Link. So much respect to you.

There really is no winning, is there?

Complaints when 1.6.1 is delayed, but if they release it early and full of issues, there'll surely be complaints about that as well.

TP-Link, just keep working on your devices and firmware, I'll patiently wait for the next release and upgrade when it's ready.

I upgraded to 1.6.0 beta as well, in the full understanding that it might contain bugs and knowing I couldn't downgrade at the time.

However, downgrading to the latest stable is an option, so if I had issues I would surely do that - which I will recommend to everyone in this thread with issues.

As for threatening them with a claim, please share the outcome, I'll grab some popcorn in the meantime.

I'm reading here about 1.6 being released but my app doesn;t find any updates and I the webiste only lists 1.5.6.  Is 1.6 out or not?

@David-TP 

when will we have release 1.6.1 released?

well I've bailed. I bought a pair of Asus Pro ET12s - yes much more expensive but with the 2 units I have 10 x the wifi speed I got with my 4 m9 plus everyhwere in the house. Much more confdigurable and easy to set up.

  @RWB66 

Does it allow you to manually fix connection preferences, viz., connect to a preferred node?

  @MorrisAGE 

That's possible on all modern Asus mesh-systems, you can lock a client to a specific node without problems.

I used a set of Asus XT8's for a few years in one of our homes and it worked well, but was unfortunately very hit and miss with new firmware updates. They got a lot of updates but few were really stable over time so you either had to stay with an outdated firmware for stability and miss out on security patches and new features, or follow the update regime knowing something got fixed and a random thing got broken with many of the updates. That's my main complaint about the Asus XT8's.

I haven't tried the Asus ET12 but I've read lots of praise of it as a fast and stable system.

On the other hand you have Deco not providing many updates, great if everything "just works" but not so if you have trouble and have to wait for months or even years before a fix is in.

  @MorrisAGE yes just about everything is configurable - including wifi channels!. I bought the deocs for the mesh coverage and plug and play but they really were TOO limited and the coverage was poor - the Asus has so far delivered great coverage with half the units and is as configurable/plus and play as you want. But thats what you are paying for. It will be interesting to see if all the disconnections on my SkyQ mesh stop now my wifi mesh is on a 100mhz band and not slap bang in the middle of the same band.