Why does a Deco insist on connecting to the Deco furthest away?
I have 5 Deco M5s, Everything works but speeds are slow on one Deco. Three are in the house, two are in outbuildings to extend the WiFi to security cameras and give us WiFi in the garden.
Looking at the map, the slow one (workshop) insists on connecting to a Deco in the house rather than two Decos that are closer to it.
So its signal strength is poor. That makes little sense to me as I'd expect it to connect to the Summerhouse in the map below, as it is the furthest away. It's ignoring two Decos in between it and where it connects.
Is there any way to manually configure the map to test if that would improve speeds?
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With Deco M5, you can use Connection Preference feature to configure where Satellite Deco should connect, overwriting its automatic algorithm. See here: How to select a preferred signal source on the Deco App
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I have not seen TP-Link stating limit on number of hops, but each hop cuts WiFi speed by about half. Which means, if you start with 400Mbps on Main Deco (for example), Satellite Deco connected to it will only deliver 200Mbps, Satellite Deco connected to that Satellite Deco won't deliver more than 100Mbps - and so on.
This is not specific for Deco mesh, this is limitation of WiFi mesh technology and also of WiFi range extenders and WiFi boosters.
For that reason, Satellite Deco prefers connection to Main Deco, that connection might not be the strong but it could be better than losing 50% speed on a hop.
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@Alexandre. Thanks. One other thing, are there any limits on hops between a satellite and the main Deco? I've connected it to the nearest one, so there are now 4 Decos between it and my WAN connection. So five hops I guess.
Thinking about it, maybe that's why the algorithm is ignoring those nearer Decos.
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I have not seen TP-Link stating limit on number of hops, but each hop cuts WiFi speed by about half. Which means, if you start with 400Mbps on Main Deco (for example), Satellite Deco connected to it will only deliver 200Mbps, Satellite Deco connected to that Satellite Deco won't deliver more than 100Mbps - and so on.
This is not specific for Deco mesh, this is limitation of WiFi mesh technology and also of WiFi range extenders and WiFi boosters.
For that reason, Satellite Deco prefers connection to Main Deco, that connection might not be the strong but it could be better than losing 50% speed on a hop.
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@Alexandre. Thanks. I've read that your speed halves with every Deco satellite before, but it's not my experience. My Internet is 150 Mbps. I'm currently connected to a satellite Deco one hop away from the main Deco and still get 150 Mbps. Another laptop is another hop away, and it gets 100 Mbps. So it isn't halving for each Deco. More like you lose a third speed for each Deco once you are two hops away or more.
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