Mix older deco with deco xe75 pair
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I currently have two deco xe75 running a wireless mesh over 6ghz. I want to add another deco to fill out a wireless black spot but only need basic speeds for what it will be covering.
Rather than get another xe75 could I get something like a single x20 and add it to the wireless mesh where the x20 would access the mesh over 5ghz but the connection between the two xe75 units will still run at 6ghz?
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You can do that. X20 will use 5GHz for backhaul and pair of XE75 will keep talking to each other over 6GHz.
There is another caveat. When adding different Deco model to existent WiFi mesh, Deco will disable features not present in that model. Some of the features present in XE75 may not be in X20 firmware and may disappear when X20 is added.
Specifically, if you use one of the following features in your XE75 mesh, some of them may become unavailable after adding X20:
- Support for customizing Satellite Deco signal source.
- Support for customizing Client connection preferences.
- Support for Reboot Schedule.
- Support for setting Effective Time and Bandwidth Limit for guest network.
- IoT network.
If you are not using any of these, there should not be a problem. If you do, you'll need to research if new Deco that you plan to add has firmware with the features from this list that you want to keep.
The safer bet would be X55, for whatever reasons it gets newer features just like XE75, but of course adding XE75 to XE75 mesh is the safest.
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You can do that. X20 will use 5GHz for backhaul and pair of XE75 will keep talking to each other over 6GHz.
There is another caveat. When adding different Deco model to existent WiFi mesh, Deco will disable features not present in that model. Some of the features present in XE75 may not be in X20 firmware and may disappear when X20 is added.
Specifically, if you use one of the following features in your XE75 mesh, some of them may become unavailable after adding X20:
- Support for customizing Satellite Deco signal source.
- Support for customizing Client connection preferences.
- Support for Reboot Schedule.
- Support for setting Effective Time and Bandwidth Limit for guest network.
- IoT network.
If you are not using any of these, there should not be a problem. If you do, you'll need to research if new Deco that you plan to add has firmware with the features from this list that you want to keep.
The safer bet would be X55, for whatever reasons it gets newer features just like XE75, but of course adding XE75 to XE75 mesh is the safest.
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Thanks for the fast reply, I mostly just care about the fast 6e backhaul for the devices that need it. I haven't settled on the exact third deco yet but will keep on mind the firmware features. Thank you :)
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@Alexandre. How are you sure that the new Deco will not be used as intermediate satellite between the existing Deco?
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